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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.

The Department for Information and Press of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) said that it would consider the requests of two Georgian journalists on granting political asylum to them with account of the situation with the freedom of mass media in Georgia.

On October 22, the Astrakhan Regional Duma held an expanded sitting initiated by the faction of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" Party to discuss the situation in the city after election of the city Mayor. At the same time, in the Savushkina Street the opposition held their non-sanctioned action.

On October 21, a public campaign "For capital repairs of the militia" was launched in Russia with the aim to impel the federal authorities to seriously and immediately start radically reforming the country's law-enforcement bodies.

The two guys and two girls, liquidated on October 22 in the course of a special operation, held in the Oktiabrskiy District of Chechen capital, were hiding in the house, where a small facility for manufacturing explosives was organized. This was reported by local power agencies.

A criminal case has been initiated in Adygea against four inmates of one of local corrective colonies accused of violent actions applied to employees of the establishment.

As reported by a source from the Investigatory Department for Ingushetia of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), on October 22 in the village of Plievo unidentified persons shot dead a lady who owned a small shop, where alcohol was sold.

The broadly covered rallies of the opposition held during spring and summer in Georgia, had been pre-planned well in advance by the government of the republic with the aim to "let off steam" of negative energy of the population and show everybody that the opposition is impotent. This is the opinion of Georgiy Gachechiladze, leader of the Party of "Greens" of Georgia.

In the opinion of the political scientist Dmitri Oreshkin, the statement, disseminated just a couple of hours ago that "the Confederation of Nations of the Caucasus has recognized independence of Chechnya and Ingushetia," will not be the last of this sort in the course of the events taking place now in Northern Caucasus.