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Population census in Chechnya as well as in all the rest regions of Russia has started today. Law enforcement agencies of the republic will remain on an intensified watch regime until the end of the census.

Students and young specialists from Ingushetia and North Ossetia are participating in a seminar "Cross-cultural interaction School" which is under way in Moscow from October, 10, to October, 16.

Boris Evloev, a resident of the village of Nesterovskaya (Ingushetia), states that his daughter Khava lost her reproductive function after spending a week in the Malgobek Central District Hospital (CDH) and intends to have a criminal case initiated on this fact.

Political analysts in Russia and Georgia are actively discussing the decision of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on unilateral opening the border for residents of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). In Georgia, experts fear a flood of refugees from Russia and the "creeping aggression" of Ossetians; their Russian counterparts see it as Tbilisi's propaganda step.

Today in Grozny, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov was elected by the delegates of the World Congress of Chechen People to be Secretary General of the Congress. According to observers, this will make him more independent from the Kremlin.

Residents of the Stavropol Region, who are bagging subscriptions since October 10 for the Region's exit from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), assert that after unification with the North-Caucasian republics the region faced increased criminality, terror acts and ethnic conflicts.

The cases of Aishat and Apti Magmadovs, arrested near Moscow, Egle Kusaite, suspected of terrorism in Lithuania, and the Gataev family of Chechen refugees, currently pending of their refugee status in Finland, were deliberately linked together to give more international resonance. This was stated by Oksana Chelysheva, deputy director of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship.

Elections to local self-government bodies in the SFD (Southern Federal District) turned into numerous violations, and in Dagestan - into a mass brawl and murder; international organizations focus attention on problems of Southern Caucasus, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 4-10, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Rudnya District Court of the Volgograd Region has rejected the claim on reinstatement lodged by Viktor Morozov, former head of the district administration, who had voluntarily resigned after local fires on September 2-3. The claimant is going to challenge this decision.

The Investigatory Committee for the Rostov Region has initiated three criminal cases on facts of falsifying election documents at elections to the Rostov-on-Don City Duma on October 9, said the Committee's spokesman.

The criminal case against Albina Gatieva, Rector of the Armavir State Pedagogical University, accused of a fraud through use of a faked diploma of Doctor of Sciences, was sent to the court.

The whereabout is now known of Rustam Maksharipovich Dzeitov, born in 1982, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo, whose kidnapping on September 7 by unidentified power agents from his home was reported by his relatives. As of October 12, Rustam Dzeitov was kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Vladikavkaz, says the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" received by the "Caucasian Knot".

Lawyer Zinfira Mirzaeva has lodged a repeated application on attracting militiamen to responsibility for the illegal, in her opinion, detention and seizure of her phone, runs the message of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" that arrived to the "Caucasian Knot".

The Square of Accord in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria was the venue of the rally on the fifth anniversary of the tragic events in Nalchik in 2005, when militants attacked power agencies of the republic. By the end of the rally, a group of women appeared in the square, whose sons took part in the attack and were killed or arrested, and whose sons were killed in special operations or disappeared.

The personnel of the Investigation department of Head Public prosecutor's office of Georgia detained Alexander Chikvaidze, Ex-deputy Minister of Education and Science, on accusation of abuse of power and bribery.

Criminal proceedings against Chief of Specialized investigative department for economic crimes and Head of Investigation unit of Department of Interior affairs in Stavropol suspected of an attempt and complicity in taking a bribe of one million rubles have been started in Stavropol region.

Federal Labor and Employment Service (Rostrud) held up the work of three mines in Rostov region. The reason for doing so had become blatant violations of labor security creating an actual danger for the miners' lives committed by the employers, Andrey Selivanov, Deputy Head of Rostrud, reported.

A repeated psychological and psychiatric expertise of the defendants in the process on a series of exploding houses in Sochi in 2008-2009 established that they were sane. The expert opinion was announced on October, 12, at the session of the court in Krasnodar.

The heads of the Investigatory Division for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) have cancelled the decision of the inspector of the Elborus ROVD (District Interior Division) of September 10, 2010, not to institute a criminal case on the death of Ekaterina Matveyeva, an employee of the criminal search, as unjustified.

The boss of the FSB was too impatient to accuse Issa Khashagulgov, a resident of Ingushetia, of organizing the terror act at the central marketplace of Vladikavkaz; he is still in the status of a suspect, Khashagulgov's advocates assert.