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The Armenian police has detained suspects of murdering Alvard Abramyan, an editor of the Armenian newspaper "Menk Merontsov" (We are Together with Our People), and her husband Yurik Srabyan.

On Saturday, October 29, an ecological event, dedicated to the International Day of the Black Sea, was held in Sochi. It was attended by schoolchildren, students and volunteers.

Members of the Regional Electoral Commission of Rostov Region have acquainted young voters with electoral technologies through training and games, in which young people agitated for Ernesto Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet.

The public organization "Association of Caucasian Bloggers", which was founded on October 20, will be registered with the Ministry of Justice in the nearest future. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" by Beslan Tsechoev, the initiator of the Association, a journalist and a blogger.

Experts from the "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising the Nature) have drafted a list the most ecologically unsafe districts of Chechnya, which had been polluted with oil products for decades.

On October 29, a humanitarian aid motor convoy of 40 vehicles from Azerbaijan reached the earthquake zone in the Turkish Province of Van.

Russia started the work for preparation of an official bid to host the Youth Olympic Games of 2018 on the Caspian Sea coast, in Dagestan.

On October 28, the Karabulak Court of Ingushetia held regular session on the case of Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, ex-officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of torturing detainees. Isa Khamkhoev was questioned as the victim.

The Federal Government of Germany treated performance of actors of the MDR TV Channel at birthday party of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, which took place on October 5 in the city of Grozny, as unacceptable.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has instituted criminal cases against a head of a trade and construction company and several of his accomplices, suspected of embezzlement and fraudulent certificates for maternity capital. According to the prosecutors, the total amount of damage caused by the actions of the suspects is estimated at half a million roubles.

Residents of Southern Russia when buying intercity bus tickets will have to show their passports. On October 27, the Russian Ministry of Economic Development published on its website a draft of the appropriate order of the Ministry of Transports of the Russian Federation.

In Yerevan, during a protest action held near the government building, policemen detained Lala Aslikyan, a human rights activist, a member of the public organization "Army in Reality".

Valery Gaevsky, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, provided Mufti Mukhammad-Hadji Rakhimov, Chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Stavropol Territory, with a personal car and bodyguards to ensure his safety. This was announced on October 27 by Mufti himself.

Valery Levin, a representative of the Moscow office of Georgian businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, received permission from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to leave Georgia. This was reported by the press secretariat of the businessman.

Christopher Strasser, the PACE Rapporteur on political prisoners, had to cancel his planned visit to Azerbaijan, since he failed to get a visa.

The Tver District Court of Moscow sentenced five defendants on case on riots at Manege Square in December 2010 to 2-5.5 years of imprisonment.

In Yerevan, Freedom Square hosts a new rally of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC), which started at 5:40 p.m. Moscow time.

The investigators filed a charge against Lom-Ali Gaitukaev of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta"; however, the defendant pleaded not guilty. This was reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Azerbaijan, on October 27, a regular soldier Djavid Elshan oglu Aliev perished in an accident, which occurred in a military unit in the city of Sumgait.

The administrative authorities of Volgograd promised to conduct an inspection and recommended the Gypsies who claimed that some identified people had tried to destroy their houses in the village of Verkhnyaya Elshanka, to appeal to the court.