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Today, fifteen activists of the civil society of Azerbaijan presented to the public the "Memorandum on main directions of improvement of electoral legislation and guarantee of democracy at October 2013 presidential election". The authors of the document offer all the political forces of the country to discuss their proposals for development of joint measures to reform the electoral legislation.

During the shooting that occurred during the special operation in Khasavyurt, held on October 28, five policemen were wounded. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

Igor Trunov and Lyudmila Aivar, the lawyers of relatives of six Moscow schoolchildren, who drowned in the area of Yeisk Split of the Azov Sea in July 2010, have appealed to the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a proposal to amend the Article of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which determines the amount of compensation for the deaths of minors.

On October 29, at 03:00 p.m., in Ingushetia, about 10 persons, supporters of the regional public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", began a hunger strike to demand the resignation of the republic's leaders.

The panel of judges of Moscow city court reduced the sentence to Vitaly Vasin and Nicolay Dvoinyakov acknowledged guilty on the case of mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square in December of 2010, Press Service of the court informed.

Celebration of one of the major Muslim holidays – Kurban Bayram (Eid al-Fitr); approval of the Cabinet of Ministers headed by Bidzina Ivanishvili by newly elected MPs; suicide bombing at a police post on the North-Ossetian-Ingush border; extraordinary congress Dagestani nations in Moscow; early termination of powers of Alexei Knyshov, Russian State Duma Deputy from Rostov Region, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 22-28, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Five committees will be functioning in the Supreme Council (SC) of Adzharia elected recently. Their chairpersons were elected yesterday, October, 28, at a session of SC by secret ballot. It is also already known that there will be four fractions in the Parliament of Adzharia.

Anastasia Alexeyeva (Ganieva), wife of one of the leaders of “Sunzha” paramilitary group Timur Khayauri, called to the telephone hotline for remorseful members of armed underground created in Ingushetia. She gave herself up, Secretary of Security Council of the republic Ahmed Kotiev reported.

Pilots of McLaren MP4 GT3 race car Frederick Makovievski and Steph Dusseldorf won the final competition of GT3 City Challenge going on in Baku.

In New York, Khadija Ismajlova, an observer of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty was awarded the prize of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) "For Courage in Journalism" for the year 2012.

Some of the miners of the city of Chiatura have agreed to the offered 32-percent increase in wages and stopped their strike. Those who have decided to go on with their protest assert that the proposed salary increase will be made by reducing the premiums.

As reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by Mukhamed Cherkesov, the chairman of the movement "Adyge Khase – Circassian Parliament" of Karachay-Cherkessia, as of today, the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia has received a total of 24 Syrian Circassians.

Relatives of Yunus Didigov, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was detained by special services of North Ossetia, know nothing about his whereabouts, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by his wife and father.

About 25 Volgograd residents took part in a series of pickets held today against extraction of nickel in the area of the Khopyor River.

The delegates of the Extraordinary Congress of Dagestani Nations, held in Moscow on October 26, expressed distrust the current authorities of the republic, offered to dissolve the People's Assembly of Dagestan and hold a general election of the head of the republic.

The employees of the Borjomi Factory No. 1 have stopped their strike; the production process is fully restored, says the statement of the "IDS Borjomi Georgia", the owning company of the factory, released on October 26.

The socially vulnerable residents of Tbilisi, who seized the building of the tax service of the Nadzaladevi District, plan to go on a hunger strike, should their demands to provide housing remain unsatisfied.

On October 26 and at night on October 27, the Armenian Armed Forces shelled the dispositions of the Army of Azerbaijan, said the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan. On the other hand, Movses Akopyan, the Defence Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, has stated that from the start of the year, the Azerbaijani party has violated the ceasefire on the Karabakh direction for about 12,000 times.

Rimma Mashezova, a resident of the village of Islamey, Kabardino-Balkaria, has recorded a video message with a request to her son Alim Mashezov to return home. Alim had been conditionally convicted for storing arms; and a year after that he left his home.

The hunger strike, announced by one of the prisoners of the Correction Colony No. 11 of the Stavropol Territory, who complained about the illegal actions of the colony employees, has been stopped, said a source from the colony. The penitentiary service denies the fact of the hunger strike.