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The city of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria sees a special operation undertaken against suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), who have been blocked in an apartment house.

On October 5, the new terminal of the Yerevan International Airport "Zvartnots" began its full-scale operation, although its official opening ceremony took place on September 16.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Svetlana Isaeva, the chair of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", that today Murad Djavatkhanov, born in 1982, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt.

The relatives of Dmitry Neborak, a regular soldier, who died in an army unit in Sochi, refuse to accept the version of the investigation that he had committed suicide.

The Court of General Jurisdiction of Yerevan Communities Centre and Nork-Marash has satisfied the petition of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia (SISA) to extend the custody of the opposition activist Tigran Arakelyan by two more months.

A fifteen-year-old witness who evidenced at a trial under consideration in Tverskoy district court of Moscow on the case of mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square last December stated that he had undergone physical and moral pressure from the police personnel.

A soldier of statutory service perished caught under a train near “Ashuluk” firing range in Astrakhan region, Press service of the Central Military Region reported today.

An online-shop started working at the web-site of Central Directorate of Federal Sentence-implementation service. The prisoners’ relatives can now order all the necessary things in the web-stall without going out.

A work group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for development of a public dialogue and institutions of civil society in the Caucasus expresses its deep concern about mass detentions of residents of Karachay-Cherkessia after an assault at a Road Patrol Service team in Stavropol region. According to the residents of the republic who appealed to the work group, they were delivered to local police departments where they were forced to shave off their beards and those who disobeyed were tortured.

As reported by Roland Kelekhsaev, the leader of the People's Party, the registered presidential candidate Alan Kochiev, who is now in jail, has health problems because of his hunger strike; he was brought to the hospital.

Nagorno-Karabakh has held an action "Peace with Children's Eyes" with the aim to express protest against war and conflict with the help of coloured crayons and paints.

Activists of the Council of National Resistance, who take part in the action "against arbitrariness of the authorities of South Ossetia", have appealed to the European Parliament and legal institutions of the European Union for help in stopping "repressions of the opposition" and protection of citizens of the republic from "lawlessness."

Today, Chechnya holds a mass celebration of the Day of Grozny; however, residents and guests of the Chechen capital cannot get into the city centre. Power agents have blocked the traffic of pedestrians and motor vehicles in the area of the complex of high-rise buildings "Grozny City" and Akhmat Kadyrov Avenue.

Today, at the first court session, which considers the appeal against the sentence passed to Badri Bitsadze, the ex-head of the Frontier Police of Georgia, the introductory word of the defence was pronounced.

In Dagestan, all the protesters detained at the anti-corruption rally, held in Makhachkala on October 3, have been released.

Stanislav Kochiev, who was dismissed today from the post of Speaker of the Parliament of South Ossetia, has related this event with the upcoming presidential election.

The number of arrested supporters of Jambolat Tedeev whose registration as presidential candidate was denied by Central Election Committee on September, 30, makes already over one hundred people, members of Tedeev’s headquarters reported. The prisoners’ relatives joined Tedeev’s supporters who are staying near his house in Tskhinvali.

Central Election Committee of South Osetia has stopped receiving documents from initiative campaign groups nominating candidates for presidency of the republic. All in all documents of 30 persons were submitted, seven of them have already been registered.

The detained participants of an anti-corruption meeting held from 19:00 to 20:00 Moscow time, October, 3, in the central square of Makhachkala were moved to investigative isolation ward No 1 of the capital of Dagestan. 22 persons are currently kept there, six more were fined and released. The organizers of the meeting consider that it was legal and call the arrests and legal procedures against their supporters “infinite lawlessness”.

Today, the Moscow House of Journalists hosted presentation of a new database containing information on violations of journalists' rights "Russia – Conflicts in Media".