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As reported by the press service of the Armenian Police, the bodies of two contract servicemen of the Frontier Department of Russia's FSB were found in a military unit stationed in the city of Gyumri, in the northern part of the country.

The two residents of the Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, assassinated on October 20 in a special operation of power agencies in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, were medrese students, listed as missing since October 8 this year.

The Serpukhov Court of Moscow has sentenced Senior Adviser of Justice Sergey Abrosimov, former head of the division for supervising inquiry and operational-search activities of the Chief Department of Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) in the Southern Federal District (SFD), guilty, according to the investigation, of taking huge bribes, to eight years in a minimum security colony.

Under a new decree of the Georgian government, the humanitarian international organization, which are rendering help to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, shall fill in a special form and send it into the office of the Georgian State Minister for Reintegration, who is obliged then to present, within 21 working days, his comments or sanction the project. His refusal to implement the project may be appealed against in court.

Today, the Prosecutor's Office asked the Moscow City Court to sentence Vasily Krivtsov, a former student and a resident of Moscow, who is regarded by the investigation to be the leader of the grouping "Belye Volki" (White Wolves) and who was found guilty by the jury of committing 15 murders on the motive of ethnic hatred and enmity.

Zarema Khasanova, a Dagestani female journalist, addressed the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with her statement giving facts of threats against her, telling also about increased interest of power agents in her work. The journalist has linked these facts with her reports revealing militiamen's human rights violations.

There are witnesses in South Ossetia, who saw and talked with Rodion Ikaev, who was kidnapped on August 8, 2008, and since then was regarded as a person who had disappeared in the territory of Georgia. The Georgian party has never recognized these facts.

A Month of children's rights is going on in Azerbaijan on the initiative of Elmira Suleimanova, the Children's Ombudsman. The Month started on October, 20 and will last till November, 20, in connection with the 21-rst anniversary of accepting the Convention of Children's Rights, Press Service of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman reported.

A serviceman suspected of murder of his collegue, a soldier of federal forces, was detained in the mountainous district of Itum-Kale in the South of Chechnya.

The number of injured people in the explosion of October, 24, at the roadside near a Road Patrol Service post in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia has come to seven. Six militiamen and a local woman got wounded, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

A homemade explosive device was activated in the town of Malgobek, Ingushetia, near a food store, on October, 24. Nobody was injured, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

A report of a strong blast in the school building of the village of Zaragizh came to the standby unit of the Department of Interior Affairs of Circassian district of Cabardino-Balkaria this early morning, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

As a result of the terror act committed by a suicide bomber in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, one militiaman was lost, and some 8-12 more persons, including civilians, soldiers and militiamen, were wounded and hospitalized.

In the course of debates about the situation in Northern Caucasus, deputies of the European Parliament called on Russia to observe its international obligations on human rights and put an end to impunity in the region.

A suicide bomber who drove an UAZ van triggered an explosion at the entry to the militia base in the city of Khasavyurt in Dagestan, the local GOVD (City Interior Department) reports.

Today, the territorial capital hosted an ecological rally, after which its participants marched with slogans and posters along the city streets.

In Georgia, with the aim of better relations between the Parliament, non-governmental sector and civil society, the bureau for cooperation with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) will be created.

The Tbilisi Appeal Court has upheld the verdict of the lower instance on the case dealing with events on May 5, 2009, in the Mukhrovani tank battalion.

In Kalmykia, the opposition held a memorial party on the birthday of journalist Larisa Yudina: on October 22, Larisa Yudina, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Sovietskaya Kalmykia Today", who was murdered in July 1998, would have turned 65 years old. A similar action in Larisa's memory was held in Moscow.

On October 22, to the south-east of the Astara District of Azerbaijan, in the Caspian Sea, in the Iranian sector, a number of earthquakes were registered, said the Republic's Seismology Service of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.