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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.

As reported by Ilya, Anna Politkovskaya's son, Jean-Francois Julliard, Secretary General of the "Reporters without Borders", wanted to come to Moscow on the third anniversary of the journalist's murder; however, he was not admitted to Russia.

The Tver Court of Moscow, which is considering the claim lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov on defence of his honour and dignity against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", respondent's witnesses gave their evidences.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has refused to combine the case of the death of Magomed Evloev, the owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", with the case about the loss of three millions roubles from him; and the materials of the main case were returned to the Karabulak Court of the republic for consideration on the merits. This was reported by Yakhya Evloev, Magomed's father.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are establishing the person and circumstances of death of the unknown man, who on October 5 fell victim of an explosion in the mountainous Vedeno District of the republic.

The result of one year of operation of the so-called "children's law" in the Krasnodar Territory was young people's increased fear of people in militia uniform, believes Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights (NCHR). In the opinion of state officials, the expired year of the law in action saw a serious reduction in teenagers' criminality, and also a reduction of crimes committed against teenagers.

The news about bombardment of Disev village, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, from the Georgian party is not true. This was stated by Vladimir Dzhugeli, head of the chief territorial department of the internal affairs of the Georgian frontier region Shida Kartli.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said that the Prime Minister of the republic will be appointed within two weeks.

Today, at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, the litigation began with discussion of the petition moved by the prosecution with demand to remove defendant Anzor Mashukov from the courtroom for regular misconduct. Also today, the court has interrogated two witnesses, residents of the Zolskiy District, one of whom is Amin Gendugov, Imam of the mosque located in Zolukokoazhe village.

On October 6, Makhachkala will host the next court hearing on charges of the journalists of the Dagestan-based newspaper "Chernovik" (Blueprint) of extremism. In the opinion of the edition's Biyakay Magomedov, if there is no political order in the case, the journalists will be acquitted.

In the context with the mass murder, committed in the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA) on April 30 this year, more than 1600 persons were interrogated as witnesses, over 60 examinations were held, as reported to journalists by Zakir Garalov, General Public Prosecutor of the republic.

Servicemen of the united regiment of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia named "Leader", who came in mid-September to Chechnya for demining the territory of one of local state farms, have already cleared over eight hectares of arable land from explosives.

The would-be today's hearing in Dubai on the case about murder attempt on Hero of Russia, ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev, committed on March 28 this year, was re-appointed on October 26 for unknown reasons.