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The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which suspended its work in Chechnya in mid-July this year after the murder of Natalia Estemirova, the leading expert of the organization, has not yet resumed its work in the republic. The decision on the issue can be expected in early November.

The members of Yamadaev family hope that in the course of litigation in Dubai, where the next court session is to be held today on the case dealing with the attempt on Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of special troops of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), the names of all the persons involved in this crime, including the main customer, will be named.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes that the murder of Maksharip Aushev, a well-known Ingush oppositionist and former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Org", causes doubts of whether President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has enough power to preserve the pluralism, which he tries to support, in his republic.

In Moscow, in Chistye Prudy, near the monument to Griboedov, a meeting has started in memory of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre. The United Civil Front is the organizer of the action.

After the incident with a failed kidnapping of Maksharip Aushev by unidentified power agents at the entrance to Nazran, he was shadowed by special services. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website "Ingushetiyaru.org". According to her story, it was Aushev who had helped the film crew of the REN-TV to safely leave the republic, when they had problems with people of the former president of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov.

Volgograd is not fit for normal life of invalids. This statement was made by wheelchair invalid Oleg Semenenko in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

As reported by oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, Maksharip Aushev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Org", was buried into his patrimonial cemetery in Surkhakhi village. According to his story, since morning, many people have gathered at the house of the victim.

Today in Makhachkala, a mine or a bomb blew up when a militia bus was passing by; a militiaman was wounded.

On October 23, Sergey Yezhov, editor of the website "Foreshorten", which covers the situation in Northern Caucasus, was kidnapped in Moscow. Today, Sergey sent a news item about himself from the city of Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan).

Ibragim Khayauri, a brother of Rosa Khayauri, 48, who was killed during a special operation in Ordzonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, rejects the version of power agents that his murdered sister and her son Aslanbek Machukaev, 20, were militants and rendered armed resistance. He has stated it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Oleg Shein, a Deputy of the Russian State Duma from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" and a former candidate to the post of Mayor of Astrakhan, is convinced that the Prosecutor's Office of Astrakhan tries to close the cases initiated after two journalists were beaten on the voting day.

Experts of the Azerbaijani Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD) have analysed the course of the litigation on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries, and concluded that the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) is broken during the trial.

The police of Armenia will be reformed towards meeting the standards of the European Union. This was stated by the press service of the Council of National Security of Armenia.

The city of Stavropol has entered the fifth phase of the project of the World Health Organization (WHO) "Healthy Cities", which will last till 2013. The territorial capital was the only city of Russia to receive the corresponding accreditation in the European WHO network, which gives the right to continue participation in the project. This was announced by the press service of the city administration.

In the near future, a new tea factory will be launched in Lyankyaran. The enterprise, which occupies 1 hectare, is its final stage of commissioning, as reported by its director Mukhandis Dzhakhangirov.

The HRC "Memorial", which continues its monitoring of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, was addressed by residents of Dagestan, who informed about two cases of such violations in Dagestan in relation to their relatives in October 2009, namely: kidnapping of Arslanbek Zakaev, a resident of Makhachkala, and extrajudicial execution of several persons in the Khasavyurt District.

In Grozny, sapper units of the MIA and other law-enforcement departments have completed an operation of neutralizing a car stuffed with explosive, in which a terrorist-suicide bomber tried to make a terror act against President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and deputy of Russian State Duma Adam Delimkhanov.

Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan has prepared a new report on the events on March 1, 2008. The document deals with the litigations held against the people arrested on charges of organizing mass disorders.

The Investigatory Department for Ingushetia of the ICPO has initiated a criminal case on the fact of plundering budgetary funds of the republic's Ministry of Finance and Ingush branch of the Savings Bank.

Vladimir Churov, head of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Russia, said that he would not advise anybody to challenge the outcomes of the elections in the Urus-Martan district capital of Chechnya. According to his story, he would order a funeral wreath to the one who would dare to do it.