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The former regular soldier Andrei Popov, who claimed that he had been in captivity in Dagestan during 11 years, did not sign a confession of desertion. This was stated by the Saratov Union of Soldiers' Mothers.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, in the combat position of one of military units, stationed on the north section of the border, the regular soldier Yuri Gevorkovich Nersisyan committed suicide when being on combat duty.

The soldier from the Saratov Region Andrei Popov has admitted that he had been consciously evading his military service since 2000. Earlier, he claimed that he escaped from slavery at the brick factory in Dagestan after 11 years of captivity, said a source close to the investigation into the circumstances of the soldier's disappearance.

Today, the Yasamal District Court of Azerbaijan held a hearing on charges of committing acts of hooliganism against the US citizen Amanda Erickson and the citizen of Great Britain Celia Davis.

Today, the head coach of the Russian national team in free wrestling Djambolat Tedeev was deported to Russia, said Tamara Kelekhsaeva, the press secretary of the president of South Ossetia.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov became the leader in the anti-rating of the most criticized governors, compiled by the "Medialogy" Company based on the index of information favour, which is calculated by experts judging from the quality and quantity of citations in the media of characteristics of this or that figure.

At the request of Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, the leader of the Armenian Eparchy in Georgia, the Armenian activist Vaagn Chakhalyan, who was convicted in Georgia for 10 years in prison and is now kept at the high security prison No. 6 in Rustavi, stopped his earlier declared termless hunger strike. This was reported by the lawyer Stepan Voskanyan, Mr Chakhalyan's advocate, and Robert Tatoyan, the programme coordinator of the Union "Erkir" (Law) at a press conference in Yerevan.

Today, the Essentuki Court has ruled to dismiss the complaint lodged by Igor Kalyapin, the chairman of the Interregional Committee against Torture against inaction of officials of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) at kidnapping.

At the trial in the Tver Court of Moscow considering the riots in Manege Square then burst out in December 2010, the journalists of the editions "Grani.ru" and "Agency of Political News" (APN) gave their evidences as witnesses for the defence.

Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has held mourning ceremonies on the occasion of the next anniversary of the militants' attacks on Nalchik on October 13, 2005.

Today, the picketers, who plan their action in Moscow in front of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), will stand for the rights of Zubair Zubairaev, a Chechen resident, who is now in a colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Yevgeny Konovalov, a Krasnodar human rights activist and a member of the public movement "All people are equal before the law", was hospitalized to the intensive care unit of the territorial clinical hospital after a severe beating.

On October 11, the Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint lodged by the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Skizb Media Kentron", the founder of the "Zhamanak" (Time) newspaper, against the family of ex-President Robert Kocharyan. The court upheld the decision of the first instance, under which the newspaper is obliged to pay a fine of 3 million drams (about 8000 US dollars) to the Kocharyans as compensation of moral harm.

In the evening on October 11, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, as a result of shelling a VAZ-21099 car, a policeman was killed.

On October, the Youth Tourist Club, pupils of the orphanage "Victoria", senior schoolchildren of the Vladikavkaz Secondary School No. 24 and volunteers of the ecological public organization "Green Patrol" took part in the environmental charity action in the Koban Gorge.

The Hollywood stars and other celebrities who were invited to the mass celebrations of the Day of the City in Grozny, which coincided with the birthday of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, should refuse from the money or gifts they received, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes.

Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the first instance court in relation to Badri Bitsadze, ex-head of the frontier Police of Georgia, convicted in absentia for resisting the police, said his advocate Levan Samushiya.

The Presnya District Court of Moscow has left the four times world champion in ultimate fighting from Dagestan Rasul Mirzaev suspected of beating the student of Ivan Agafonov, 19, to death, in custody, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom.

Today, the Supreme Court of South Ossetia has upheld the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC) to refuse to register Djambolat Tedeev, the head coach of the Russian national team in free wrestling, as a candidate for the presidential election in South Ossetia. On October 16, in Vladikavkaz the opposition plans to hold a protest rally.

The policeman who wounded, in early October, three persons in the city of Yessentuki, Stavropol Territory, is in hospital and was not dismissed from the police, said Svetlana Kharchenko, the assistant of the head of the Investigatory Department for the Territory of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation). According to her story, local law enforcement bodies possess evidences that the policeman used his forearms as forced self-defence.