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Yesterday, on October 19, in the Ingush city of Malgobek, unidentified assailants killed a militia senior lieutenant, an operative agent of the local GOVD (City Interior Department), said a source from law enforcement agencies.

After an anonymous call with a warning about a planted bomb, several hundreds of employees were evacuated from the 21-storey building of Tbilisi Mayoralty in Zhiuli Shartava Street.

Colleagues of imprisoned Einullah Fatullaev have joined his protest action with a demand to the authorities to enforce the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about his immediate release. Fatullaev went on his termless hunger strike on Tuesday, October 19.

Law enforcement authorities have identified one of the suicide bombers involved in the October 19 attack on the Parliament of Chechnya. According to Ruslan Alkhanov, local Interior Minister, it was Muslim Chichkanov, 22, a resident of Chechnya.

On October 19, in Heroes Memory Square, public activists of the Krasnodar Region held another picket in defence of Article 19 of the Russian Constitution, which proclaims equality of all before the court and the law.

On October, 19, Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, declared that the attack upon the building of the republican Parliament had been organized by Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of the Chechen separatists, who is currently staying in London. Zakaev denies his involvement in the incident.

On October, 14, Magomed Evloev, father of the murdered Ingush oppositionist Yahya Evloev, submitted an appeal to the Prosecutor's committee of inquiry under Prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation asking to start new criminal proceedings in connection with a "newly-discovered evidence". He also submitted a statement to Alexander Bastrykin, head of the office.

The authorities of the Krasnodar Territory have dismissed the deputy head of the Tuapse District responsible for civil defence and emergencies and the head of the Georgievskiy rural settlement of the Tuapse District "for poor help to population who suffered from flooding."

As reported by the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Volgograd Region of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia, the cause of death of four residents of the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, who were found dead on October 14 in one of city apartment houses, was poisoning with carbon monoxide (CO).

Employees of the National Anti-Terror Committee (NAC) have detained members of a criminal grouping, who planned a series of terror acts in the Astrakhan Region. The Committee reports that the detained possible organizer of the planned diversions was involved in attacks on militiamen in Astrakhan in July and August this year.

The judicial panel of the court held a closed session to consider the cassation appeals lodged by the defence and Yuri Babkin, former teacher and deputy of the city soviet, who was convicted on charges of paedophilia to 15 years in a high security colony.

On October 17-27, the district, which is bordering on Georgia, will host a humanitarian action "Mutual Aid. Partnership. Safety", when Russian doctors will render free medical care to local residents.

The "Wikimedia", which oversees the Russian-language section of the online library "Wikipedia", can be charged with extremism for placing the appeal of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan": "To everyone sympathizing the victims of Beslan terror act!", which is on the federal list of extremist materials.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are still unable to specify exactly how many militants took part in today's morning attack on the Republic's Parliament in Grozny: figures from three to five are named. The number of militia patrols in streets of Chechen capital has increased significantly. Militaries and militiamen are on duty near schools. Some parents preferred to keep their children at home today.

On October 9, Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian militants, disbanded two fronts in Chechnya and announced reshuffling in "Imarat Kavkaz". It has become known from the video clips placed on the Internet, in which Umarov refutes allegations of Chechen field commanders on the reasons, which forced them to refuse from their oath to him.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya has reported that the militants who attacked this morning the Parliament building in Grozny, were members of the illegal armed formation (IAF) commanded by Hussein Gakaev, who has organized this action in order to kill Chechen MPs and become famous. However, so far, none of the militants has taken responsibility for the attack.

As reported by Marina Gridneva, spokesperson of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia, Ahmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (CRI), was announced into international search again. The Yessentuki City Court, the Stavropol Territory, has arrested Zakaev in absentia.

In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, participants of a today's six-hour-long picket in support of political prisoners and democracy, held in parallel with the Council of Europe's forum "In the Name of Democracy", believe that it is not reasonable to hold such events in a country, which has political prisoners and failed to properly investigate the events of March 1, 2008.

Einulla Fatullayev, a journalist serving in a penitentiary is starting an open-ended hunger strike on October, 19, demanding execution of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on his immediate release by the authorities of Azerbaijan.

During a meeting in Ingushetia at the crossroads of a federal highway and a road in the direction of the town of Magas, a car with Moscow reporters of "Partner Plus" press agency, while they were taking photos of the action, was fired upon by members of the top brass, Elena Sevriukova, leader of the agency, reported.