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In Azerbaijan, the investigation is over into the pressure on Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspaper "Aina-Zerkalo" and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), and his family. The materials of the investigation have been sent to the Binagadi District Prosecutor's Office for initiating a criminal case.

Over 250 trees of rare species were illegally cut down in the settlement of Yuzhnaya Ozereevka, the neigbourhood of Novorossiysk.

Arsen Pshmakhov, athlete from Karachay-Cherkessia, became prize-winner of World Cup tournament in judo in Baku. In the cup final of weight class under 81 kg Pshmakhov gained victory over Italian Matteo Markontsini.

One person perished and two got wounded as a result of firing at three local residents by unknown people in Makhachkala.

On October, 10, a twenty-four-years-old resident of Samara region Vitaly Vasin was detained in Moscow for suspicion of participation in mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square in December, 2010. This was reported by official representative of Committee of Inquiry of Russia Vladimir Markin. Earlier, six persons were detained in connection with this case.

The Bar of Azerbaijan started disciplinary proceedings concerning solicitor, lawyer of the Institute of Rights of Media Elchin Sadygov.

Today, the Matveev-Kurgan and Kuibyshev District of the Rostov Region have launched the "Memory Watch" campaign that assumes excavations of the remains of Soviet soldiers. According to the press service of the committee on youth policies of the region, the excavations will be carried out by young activists from the following six military-patriotic clubs: "Rys", "Dorogami Otsov" (Fathers' Roads), "Otechestvo" (Homeland), Regiment "Dolg" (Duty), "Yuzhny Front", "Poisk" (Search) and "Pamyats" (Memory).

On October 9, Vladimir Asatryan, 19, a regular soldier of one of the units of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, committed suicide by killing himself from a submachine gun.

Anti-corruption rally in the capital of Dagestan, ending with violent dispersal and mass detentions; sentence to former deputy of Volgograd Regional Duma, accused of paedophilia; fifth anniversary of murder in Moscow of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and failed indictment; autumn session of the PACE, which passed a resolution calling not to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and a declaration of 32 PACE delegates on recognition of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 3-9, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Ten persons were hospitalized with diagnosis of salmonellosis and orivirus infection after eating at the Japanese cuisine facility in the city of Taganrog. A 7-year-old child and a sushi bar employee are among the victims.

On October 9 in Dagestan, the police detained a 20-year-old resident of Kaspiisk, who is suspected of having called the police on duty unit and reported about an explosive device, allegedly planted in one of the trading houses located in I. Kazak Street of Makhachkala, the press service of the local MIA has reported.

On October 8, the Sabail District Court of Baku held a session on the case of theologian Abgyul Suleimanov. The court decided to extend the investigatory until early 2012.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation), the militants who killed the spouses - the employees of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, made at least 20 shots at the casualties.

The leader of the Union of Dagestani NGOs named "Otechestvo" (Homeland), who was one of the organizers on October 3 of an anti-corruption rally in Makhachkala, has held a press conference, where he stated the legality of the protest action and violations of detainees' rights at the police station.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by an unofficial source from the city of Tyrnyauz that Mukhtar Baizullaev, the director of the training-sporting base "Ushba" in Tyrnyauz, Kabardino-Balkaria, was shot dead by Islamic radicals for his refusal to pay the zakyat (tax) of 500,000 roubles.

Today, the Khasavyurt City Court is considered a civil lawsuit lodged by Nasurdin Rasulov, a human rights defender from Khasavyurt and the lawyer of the public organization named "Fighter for Justice" on protection of his honour and dignity.

At today's court session, the advocate of the former militiaman Ilya Galkin, who is accused of committing a series of explosions in Sochi in 2008-2009, and who suffers, according to the latest examination, from a mental disorder, has recalled his earlier petition asking to send his client to forced treatment at a mental hospital.

Today, the Tver District Court in Moscow has started questioning the defendants in the resonant case about disorders in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010.

In the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), a 47-year-old local resident, detained for 10 days, has died in the investigatory division. According to preliminary results of the forensic examination, his death was a result of bodily injuries.

On October, 9, representatives of the "Left Front" movement held a picket of solidarity with the Libyan people in its struggle against NATO. The action was authorized by the Administration of Rostov-on-Don and passed off without any incidents, organizer of the action Vladislav Riazantsev reported.