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On October 9, following the protest actions of Armenian residents, Ruben Babayan, Artistic Director of the Yerevan Puppet Theatre, made a decision to cancel the run of the film "Parada", protecting the rights of sexual minorities.

Today, the judge of magistrate precinct No. 369 of the Tver District Court of Moscow deprived Murat Agalarov, a figurant of the incident with shooting at the centre of Moscow during the Dagestani wedding party of September 30, of the weapon license for a term of one year.

The personnel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Dagestan established identity of six victims of flooding as a result of showers in Derbent. The information of the seventh person who perished has not been confirmed as of the moment. The investigators are inspecting the officials' activities during the emergency in the town.

About 30 residents of the settlement of Rembaza whom the authorities of Makhachkala had been trying to evict from their houses for already over a year came out on a picket in Kaspiysk - Makhachkala highway demanding to reestablish power, gas and water supply in the settlement. The picket started at 10 in the morning. The participants of the action, mostly women with little children, did not block the highway. They are standing at the roadside with posters: "Official, have a heart!", "Give us light!", "We are going on a hunger strike!".

Yesterday, October, 9, two persons appealed to the police reporting their relatives' disappearance.

About two hundred workers of the sea-port in Poti went on a strike demanding improvement of working conditions, observance of safety regulations and deserved salary.

32 detainees face criminal charges in connection with the unsanctioned protest action of believers, which was held on October 5 in Baku in front of the Ministry of Education and which grew into clashes between the protesters and the police. The courts pronounced their arrests as pre-trial restriction measures. This was reported on October 8 by Eldar Sultanov, Press Officer of the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan.

Special operation near the village of Agachaul of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, located in the vicinities of Makhachkala, is conducted by military men on detached service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was reported by a source in the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Residents of Makhachkala claim that the morning bombing of the forest near the village of Agachaul raised panic among them.

Last night, in Tbilisi, Tsotne Gvasaliya, the leader of the youth organization, the member of the "United National Movement" Party (UNMP), was beaten by unidentified persons. Members of the Party suspect that the attack was committed for political reasons. This was reported by David Sakvarelidze, a candidate for Parliament from the UNMP.

In the evening of October 8, in the Krasnodar Territory, Lyudmila Barzdanes, the human rights defender and the candidate to the deputy of the Kropotkin City Council from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, was beaten. Her condition is assessed as of moderate severity. On October 10, she will be brought to Krasnodar.

Ibragim Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who in last November was shelled by power agents by error, claims delay of the investigation into the incident. Investigators failed to reveal who opened fire on a car of the local resident and wounded him and damaged his car. Officials from the investigatory agencies of the Khasavyurt District state that the investigation into the incident is underway.

Today, the Shirvan Court of Appeal of Azerbaijan dismissed the appeal, which was filed by Talekh Khasmamedov, the human rights defender, the leader of the NGO "Law and Order", against the decision of the Goychay District Court.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Alovsat Abbasov, closed the trial on the case against 22 citizens of Azerbaijan, accused of high treason and other crimes. Half of the defendants are residents of the village of Nardaran, located 25 km north of Baku and well-known by strong religious traditions.

Today, the "zapravakbr.ru", the website of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre (HRC), suffered from hacking attack. This was reported by Zaur Shokuev, the deputy head of the HRC.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, Andrei Prokopov, ex-Senior Combat Engineer of the Engineering and Technical Department of the Special Police Squad of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was found guilty of negligence when examining the hippodrome in Nalchik and sentenced to 2.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) brought the case on the Yuri Budanov's murder to the Prosecutor's Office for approval of indictment. This was reported today by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the ICRF.

In the Rostov Region, staff members of the Inter-District Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "Krasnosulinskiy" detained a man, suspected of vandalizing graves at the cemetery in the village of Vladimirovskaya.

At least 22 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus last week, October, 1, till October, 7, 2012. 14 out of them perished and eight got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and other open sources.

Yesterday, October, 8, a resident of Rutul district appealed to the police of Dagestan reporting her daughter's obscure disappearance.

Residents of the settlement of Tsatanikh, Untsuklul district of Dagestan, unblocked the roadway at the entrance of the settlement of Gimry after Deputy Minister of Interior Affairs of the republic Magomed Ismailov promised to find Head of the settlement Shamil Saipulaev who disappeared on October, 6.