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The Tbilisi City Court has finished interrogating the defendants, figuring in the case about the Mukhrovani mutiny. 20 defendants have refused to plead guilty and evidence to the court. 13 persons, including Giya Gvaladze, on whose evidences General Koba Kobaladze was arrested, concluded remedial agreement with the prosecutor's and were sentenced to 2 years of prison each.

On October 7, the Nasimin District Court of Baku, chaired by Elmar Kerimov, finished the trial on the claim of Mais Mansimov, president of the football club "Khazar Lenkoran", against the reporter of the website www.fanat.az Natik Mukhtarly and the head of this electronic edition Zakhir Azamat. The defendants were sentenced to corrective works.

The Neftchalinsk police would not allow Ragim Gaziev, ex-minister of defence of Azerbaijan and former political prisoner, to visit the district and run his business there. The police also exert pressure on the local residents hired by the ex-minister for agricultural works. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Gaziev himself at the press conference in Baku on October 7.

The polling "Who deserves to become Ombudsman in Ingushetia?" held by the "Caucasian Knot" has aroused considerable interest among the readers. Recently, a splash in voting mainly for two candidates is observed.

The presidium of the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has cancelled the ruling of the magistrate court and appeal judgement of the Nalchik City Court on the claim lodged by employees of the patrol-sentry militia regiment (PSMR) against the KBR's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) on collection of their overdue salary for their overtime work and other mandatory payments stipulated by Russian legislation, and sent the case to the Nalchik City Court for a new consideration.

Today, the Sabail District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan continued, under presidency of Judge Araz Guseinov, the judicial hearings on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and inflicting physical injuries. By the decision of the court they were left in custody.

On October 6, the Federal Court of the Sovietskiy District of Makhachkala started considering the suit lodged by Kadi Aidemirov, acting head of the Khasavyurt Investigatory Committee, about solidary collection from the Dagestan weekly "Novoye Delo" and advocate Sapiyat Magomedova of 100,000 roubles as moral harm compensation. The session was chaired by Federal Judge Shamil Gasanov.

The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of Russia for Dagestan has found it necessary to hold an additional check of the data specified in the leaflets, which were disseminated in early September in Makhachkala. This was stated on Tuesday, October 6 by a source in the Republic's Investigatory Department.

In Moscow, people came to No. 8 Lesnaya Street, where Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", lived and was assassinated, to commemorate the journalist.

The issue of resuming the work of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in the Chechen Republic is still open. Local observers believe that in a view of the continuing litigation between the leader of the "Memorial" and Ramzan Kadyrov and negative attitude to this organization by "official" Chechen human rights activists and power agents, the decision can be indefinitely postponed.

Sergey Shamba, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia, told journalists today that last week the top managers of Radio Liberty submitted an official letter to the MFA with an offer to open its representative office in Abkhazia.

The Strasbourg Court on Human Rights has communicated the complaint lodged by Kameta Khashueva, a resident of Chechnya and mother of Mamed Bagalaev, who occasionally perished in the course of special operation of Russian power agents, and awarded a priority status to her complaint.

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has passed a decision, according to which Zaur Gaziev, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Free Republic", should pay 100,000 roubles of moral damage compensation to journalist Svetlana Anokhina.

Today is two years after the leader of North-Caucasian militants Doku Umarov proclaimed the Islamic state - the Imarat Kavkaz. From the time when the accent in the ideology got offset from the political aspect to the religious one, the situation in Northern Caucasus has noticeably aggravated. Supporters of Imarat organized a continuous range of attempts on state officials and terror acts committed by suicide bombers.

Bakanai Guseinova, advocate of the HRC "Memorial", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Dzhigirkhan Dzhigirkhanov, who was kidnapped in Makhachkala on September 16, is now at large and at home.

Today, the city of Gali (Gali District of Abkhazia) has hosted the sixth meeting within the mechanism of preventing incidents in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone. One of the basic points raised by the Georgian party referred to safe residence of Georgians in the Gali District.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov asks to initiate a criminal case against Dmitri Muratov, editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta", Vyacheslav Izmailov, its military observer, and several more journalists of the edition.

Today, another judicial session on charging 5 journalists of the Dagestan newspaper "Chernovik" under Article 282 of the Russian Criminal Code "Kindling national, racial or religious hostility" was to take place in Makhachkala. However, as reported by the lawyer of the edition Biyakai Magomedov, it was postponed till next Monday, October 12, under joint consent of the court and prosecutor's office because of sickness of one of the defendants.

Scandalous pre-election campaign in Northern Caucasus; attempt to deprive Russian delegation of its vote at the PACE; debates among Armenian public and Diaspora on establishment of diplomatic relations with Turkey, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of September 28-October 4 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The court has satisfied the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to the head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov on defence of honour and dignity and ruled to collect 50,000 roubles from the HRC and 20,000 roubles personally from Orlov in favour of the claimant.