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The NGO "Earth is Our Home" launches an active campaign to demand closure of the Museum of Soviet Occupation in Tbilisi. This was stated by Elgudja Khodeli, the head of the NGO. The first action within the campaign took place in front of the Museum itself, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Karabulak Court ruled on the case of torture in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia that in the episode of torture of Zelimkhan Chitigov, the guilt of Ilyas Nalgiev, former police officer, had been completely proved, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The construction of the building in Khandjyan Street in the centre of Yerevan, the second floor of which fell down and hit the workers, was held illegally, without the permission of the City Mayoralty and City Urban Construction Inspection. This was reported today by Taron Margaryan, Mayor of Yerevan.

Today, in Sukhumi, at the monument to victims of political repressions of 1930-1940s, representatives of the public and the Abkhaz leaders and students gathered to pay tribute to memory of the repressed persons.

This morning, in Derbent, Kalimulla Ibragimov, the imam of the local mosque, his father and brother were shot dead by unidentified persons, when they were going to the mosque for the morning prayer. In Derbent, their funerals were held.

Today, in Azerbaijan, the term of administrative arrest of four opposition activists, who were detained in connection with the protest action, held on October 20 in the centre of Baku, where they demanded the dissolution of the Parliament expired.

In Vladikavkaz, organizers of the action, dedicated to the Memory Day of victims of political repressions at the "Stone of Tears", refused to hold a rally, since public events in the republic were cancelled after the terror act at the "Chermen" checkpoint.

After the strike of road builders in Choloki, representatives of the road department and the trade unions of Georgia have managed to agree with the employer company to raise wages.

During October, six families of Syrian Circassians 35 persons, including children as half of them moved from Maikop to the village of Panakhes of the Takhtamukai District. This was reported by Asker Sokht, Chairman of the Krasnodar regional public organization "Adyge Khasa".

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) accepted for consideration the complaint, filed by Oleg Orlov, the former head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and three journalists from the "REN" TV Channel against actions of power agents with regard to them in November 2007 in Ingushetia, on the eve of a rally of republic's residents against the arbitrariness of power agents. The ECtHR court has sent Russia the questions on the merits of the complaint.

In Volgograd, about 100 persons laid flowers to the monument to victims of political repressions. Members of the Volgograd Association of Victims of Unlawful Political Repressions, relatives, students of the Volgograd State Technical University, and officials of the regional government came to pay tribute to the memory of the repressed persons.

On October 26, on the outskirts of the village of Ali-Yurt, the remains of Zurab Agiev, a resident of the village of Plievo of the Nazran District, who disappeared on October 18 together with Orts Almurziev, were found.

Ibragim Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who was accidentally wounded by power agents in November 2011, is accused of threatening a power representative. At present, he is being kept at a detention facility, and his lawyer reported on deterioration of the detainee's health, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Last week, on October 22-28, 2012, at least 12 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 7 persons were killed and 5 wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

By November 1, about 355 prisoners will be released from penitentiary institutions of Georgia. This was reported on October 29 Sozar Subari, new Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance. At the same time, it became known that two parliamentary committees begin work on the draft law "On Amnesty."

The police of Ingushetia detained about 50 participants of the hunger striker, held by the public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel." Four hunger-strikers are still kept at the Nazran OVD (Interior Division), and their lawyers are not allowed to visit them. One participant of the protest action was seriously injured during the detention. This was reported by Idris Abadiev, the head of the public organization.

Today, Aslan Tkhakushinov, the leader of Adygea, and Johann Berger, Vice-President of the Italian province of South Tyrol, Minister of Agriculture and Tourism, signed a letter of intent, which defined the priority for cooperation in tourism and agriculture.

Residents of the city of Derbent and volunteers state that only the central streets of the city have been cleaned after the flooding and that the outskirts are still "buried in the mud". The Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports that the works to clean the city, affected by the flooding, have been completed.

Celebration of the holiday of Eid al-Adha, scheduled for today in the park named after Peter I in the city of Kizlyar, was not held, since the recreation area was cordoned off by armed law enforcement agents. This was reported by Magomed Kartashov, the organizer of the event.

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.