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At the recent British Invention Show, the innovation project of the Dagestani State Agricultural Academy (DSACA) "Water Purification Complex and Technology for Water Purification from Arsenic" received main awards - the Platinum Grand Prix, Gold Medal and Honorary Diploma.

Gadji Kadiev, a resident of Makhachkala, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that none of census takers visited his house at 19 Gamidov Avenue, where he lives with his family.

On October 26 in Moscow, more than 300 persons gathered in the square in front of the Theatrical Centre: victims and relatives of the casualties of the Dubrovka terror act, and victims of other terror acts - exploded houses in Guryanova Street and Kashira Highway in Moscow, in Volgodonsk and at Beslan school capture.

According to Alexei Dymovskiy, leader of the "White Tape" movement, and Yuri Dzaganiya, local CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) leader, the attack in Sochi on Mikhail Vinyukov, chairman of the Sochi branch of the "White Tape", was an ordered the crime, organized by those dissatisfied with the activities of the rights defender.

On October 25 in Tbilisi refugees broke a tent camp at the Ministry for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Refugees and Accommodation, demanding resignation of Minister Koba Subeliani. Refugees believe that the government fails to address their housing problems; while the Ministry finds their claims to be ungrounded.

The investigatory bodies and operative agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and FSB have detained two persons who confessed of committing a terror act on July 21 at the Baksan hydroelectric power plant (HPP) in Kabardino-Balkaria, as Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee (IC), said today.

Today in Warsaw, the Court of Appeal overturned the first instance's ruling to arrest Ahmed Zakaev, leader of Chechen separatists. The session held behind closed doors also stopped Zakaev's arrest case.

The case of "White Wolves" once again confirms that the jury trial, in case of proper work of the investigation, will not acquit the Nazis, Galina Kozhevnikova, Deputy Director of informational and analytic center "SOVA" said to a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

The personnel of the Center of Rescue Operations of Special Risk "Leader", MES of Russia, have accomplished their work on mine clearing in the territory of Chechnya. The sappers of "Leader" had been working in Chechnya since the middle of September this year.

As a result of an achieved peace accord the personnel of law enforcement bodies in Dagestan completely offset to lawyer Jamilya Tagirova the disadvantage for having knocked out the window glasses in her car.

A non-governmental organization of Armenia "Democracy for the Sake of Development" has submitted an appeal to the President of Nagorno-Karabakh concerning Ernest Vardanyan, an Armenian journalist arrested in Transdniestria

The Zaragizh village school suffered from an explosion. According to the principal, who referred to the experts studying the circumstances of the night explosion, the reason was in the canteen hot-water boiler. Thus, the initial statement about a terror act was not true.

Two of the three suicide bombers who attacked the building of the Chechen Parliament in Grozny in the morning of 19 October are still unidentified. The procedure is difficult, because their bodies torn into fragments by explosives belts are not subject to visual identification. Inspectors continue revealing new details of the incident.

In the south of Armenia, employees of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) plan to start night on duty shifts near the gardens, where brown bears come for nutrition. This was announced by the PR Department of the WWF.

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.