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On October 16, Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, said that the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" will be solved.

Badri Afanasiev, producer of the Georgian TV Channel "Imedi", has applied to Russia for political asylum.

Today, the operative staff of the FSB in Ingushetia has made a decision to lift the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the morning on October 15 in the territory of the Sunzha District of the republic.

The National Assembly (NA) of Karachai-Circassia has for the fourth time rejected the candidature of Vyacheslav Derev, who was nominated by leaders of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party to the position of representative of the NA at the Russian Council of Federation.

The report of the commission of the European Union (EU), where President of Georgia was found guilty of unleashing the war in South Ossetia, allows initiating the procedure of impeaching President Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by Carlo Kopaliani, member of the Republican Party and an MP from the oppositional faction "Strong Georgia", at a press conference on October 16.

The absence of solutions to the issues of transit between Azerbaijan and Turkey compels Baku to look for new markets for Azerbaijani gas, as President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev said at the sitting of his government.

Employees of the Volgograd Centre for Power Efficiency plan to build and test a biogas installation on the basis of the breeding farm located in the Volgograd Region for converting the animals' manure into useful energy.

After replacement of the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, the efforts of the local prosecutor's office against five journalists of the edition "Chernovik", accused of excitation of national, racial or religious hostility, began to come to naught; it means that the urgency of the "order" to shut down the edition has been exhausted. This was stated by Biyakai Magomedov, the lawyer of the "Chernovik".

The prosecutor's office of the Industrial Municipal District of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has opened an administrative case against the "Electrozinc" factory in the context of the latter's emissions of sulphur dioxide to the atmosphere on October 5; also a presentation was passed on violation of ecological legislation.

Today, the Nasimin District Court of Baku, chaired by Ikram Shirinov, continued considering the claim lodged by the widow of Novruzali Mamedov, former head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) against the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan, Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15.

All the materials of the case concerning Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under the article of slander have been transferred to the Moscow prosecutor's office. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who had submitted an application demanding to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov.

On Monday, October 19, members of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus, will file their application to the Adler District Court; the ecologists protest against their detention by frontier guards of the FSB, when they were surveying the construction of Olympic object - the combined railway and motor road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.

In Rostov-on-Don, nine school pupils were hospitalized after flu vaccination, some more kids addressed the local polyclinic after inoculation.

According to the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the explosion that happened today in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, nobody suffered. Earlier it was reported that several persons had suffered.

Magomed Dibirov, chairman of the central electoral commission (CEC) of Dagestan, said today that the elections in Derbent and other municipal formations of the republic have been recognized valid, and no violations have been registered.

The FSB has reported that is has solved the terror acts committed in 1999 in "Intourist" Hotel and "Okhotny Ryad" Shopping Centre. According to the investigation, the crimes had been ordered by Shamil Basaev. Now, the Moscow City Court holds a trial of the suspects of these crimes.

In Novorossisk, appointment of "voluntary patrolmen" for making raids to reveal minors during the curfew reminds the Soviet system of allotments and actually turns into fiction, creating more inconveniences for patrolman appointed from among state employees than restricting in any way children's and teenagers' stay in the street during in dark hours. This is the opinion of Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk committee on Human Rights (NCHR).

The investigatory bodies for the Rostov Region of the ICPO of Russia have initiated a criminal case against deputy head of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Oryol District, Rostov Region, suspected of breaking traffic rules, which entailed death by imprudence of two persons.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the decision of the Lazarevskoe District Court of Sochi on compensation to the citizens who had suffered from the actions of Sochi OMON (Special-Purpose Militia) fighters in the territory of the "Druzhba" Children's Camp.

Elchin Sadygov, advocate of Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Azadlyg", who is serving his term in Azerbaijan, has addressed the Supreme Court of his country with a petition on reconsideration of his client's case in the context of the recent arrest of Sevgilada Gulieva, 34, on whose complaint Zakhidov was sentenced to four years of imprisonment.