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On October 13, the Leninskiy Court of Perm made a decision to suspend proceedings on the claim of the Prosecutor's Office of the Perm Territory to recognize the article about the Caucasus, written by Igor Averkiev, Chairman of the Perm Civil Chamber, to be an extremist one.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which had partially satisfied the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Centre Oleg Orlov.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Igor Korovin, chairman of the Astrakhan regional electoral commission, that journalists were not admitted to polling stations in the Astrakhan Region because the workers of local commissions were against "strangers' eyes."

Marina Volodina, deputy head of the press service of REN TV, reports, with reference to Isa Yamadaev, brother of Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, that Sulim needs an urgent surgery.

The film crew of the REN TV Channel, which was subjected to threats in Ingushetia, managed to safely leave the republic owing to the help of the units of President Yunus-Bek Evkurov and oppositionist Maksharip Aushev.

The spokesman of the Khabarovsk Garrison Court reports about arrest of a serviceman suspected of non-statutory relations, which entailed a suicide on October 10 of a recruit from the Volgograd Region.

In Sochi, residents of the Aviatsionnaya Street were greatly surprised to learn that a new motorway built for the Winter Olympiad-2014 will run right across their houses and kitchen gardens. According to the project, supports of the overpass will be installed right in kitchen gardens, and one of them will be erected in the place of an apartment house.

In the capital of Dagestan, 30 persons, who were illegally kept at two brick-works, are now free.

Servicemen of the patrol-sentry regiment of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Kabardino-Balkaria, who have addressed judicial bodies because of non-payment of their due bonuses for overtime work, work on weekends and holidays, are subjected to prosecution by their bosses. They told about it to journalists.

Alexander Tikhomirov, also known as Said Buryatskiy, the supposed organizer of the failed attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, and another accomplice named Magomed Tsokiev have been announced into federal search, as reported by Vladimir Markin, official spokesman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation.

Khanakhmed Khanakhmedov, head of the support office of Imam Yaraliev, a candidate for Derbent Mayor, said today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Federal Judge of the city of Derbent Dzhambulat Gadjiev has found reasonable claims of individual voters who asked to nullify the totals of the election of the head of Derbent.

Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, plans to bring protest against the ruling of the Tver Court of Moscow, which has satisfied Kadyrov's claim to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and to Oleg Orlov, head of this organization on defence of honour and dignity.

Ali Kamalov, Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Dagestan (UJD), a native of the Gunib District himself, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that administrative resources were broadly used during election of the head of the Gunib District of Dagestan.

Today, about 30 activists of the Organization for Liberation of Karabakh (OLK) tried to organize a protest action in front of the embassy of Turkey in Baku in the context of the Turkish-Armenian agreement on normalization of mutual relations.

Violations of journalists' rights during the passed elections in Astrakhan "look like an epidemic." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Boris Timoshenko, head of the monitoring service of the Glasnost Protection Fund.

Today in Nalchik, the Concord Square hosted a rally in memory of the law enforcers who fell victim of terrorists on October 13, 2005.

Today, at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee, its chairman, director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov told about the course of investigation of the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and about the war on militants in Northern Caucasus.

Only a powerful protest wave in the society can force the parliament of Armenia refuse to ratify the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, which were signed in Zurich on October 10, as Masis Mailyan, chairman of the Public Board for foreign policy and security of Nagorno-Karabakh, believes.

The next session of the Sabail District Court of Baku on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and causing bodily injuries, due to take place on October 13, was cancelled for non-appearance of the victims and their witnesses in the courtroom.

Actions in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya three years after her murder; developments at resonant litigations; negotiations of heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Karabakh settlement; signing by Turkey and Armenia of Protocols on development of mutual relations; elections in a number of regions of the SFD, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of October 5-11 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".