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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.

According to a report of District Department of Interior Affairs, last night unidentified people in the town of Kizil-Yurt (Dagestan) shot down the Director of children's inter-district rehabilitation center and his companion.

October 18 is celebrated in Azerbaijan as the Day of State Independence. On this day in 1991, the Azerbaijani parliament adopted the Constitutional Act on restoration of independence of Azerbaijan.

The voluntary people's guards will take their 3-month courses on the basis of the "Taktika" Training Centre. This time will be spent in mastering the basics of security, unarmed combat, shooting, medical help, as well as evacuation at emergencies such as natural disasters or terror acts.

The authorities of the Tuapse District, Krasnodar Territory, which was affected by severe flooding on October 16, are calculating the caused damage. According to preliminary data, it will be in hundreds of millions roubles. Residents of the district have already begun rebuilding their homes. However, the local Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has announced a new emergency warning about possible new emergencies.

Advocates of those defendants who were sentenced today on charges of murdering Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev, a former State Duma Deputy, plan to file, within their legitimate 10 days, an appeal against the verdict. They assert that witnesses' evidences were unreliable, and the case materials were falsified.

Magomed Gagiev, brother of Dzhamaleil Gagiev, who disappeared in Ingushetia on October 14, said that at that point of time the rally of the members of the victim's clan was suspended, while Magomed himself was summoned to the Investigatory Committee, where he hoped to get information about the fate of his brother, because the family did not exclude that he could be detained by special agencies.

Aza Yandieva, advocate of the ten residents of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, accused of blowing the "Neva-Express" trains in 2007 and 2009, arrived in Moscow to meet her clients. In her view, the new allegations against them are ungrounded.

Today, residents of North Ossetia mark 40 days after the date of the terror act committed on September 9 at the central marketplace in Vladikavkaz. From early morning, the venue is attended by people, who bring flowers, candles and portraits of the dead.

Rashid Mamedov, a resident of Dagestan, who in 2007 in Moscow killed, according to investigators, senior inspector for especially important cases of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan Nazim Kaziahmedov, said today at the Moscow City Court that he has fully admitted his guilt. The second defendant, Karen Aslanov, accused of complicity, said that he had not taken any part in the murder.

The city of Stepanakert hosted discussion of preparatory works for the upcoming annual telethon of the "Aiastan" Foundation, which will be broadcast on November 25, when the USA will celebrate the Thanksgiving Day.

On October, 17, a ceremonial opening of a week devoted to the International Day of Struggle against climate changes was held in front of the building of the Georgian Parliament.

Today the Moscow Municipal court sentenced three natives of Chechnya to imprisonment terms of 14 to 20 years acknowledging them guilty of the murder of Ruslan Yamadayev, ex-deputy of State Duma of the Russian Federation.

In the evening of October, 17, in Lenin district of Grozny, some strangers beat up a member of a non-governmental organization "Human Rights Center of Chechen Republic" and her daughter aged 18.

Unidentified people in the town of Baksan fired upon "Tamara" cafe located in the ground floor of a domestic building. Window glasses have been knocked out but no one got injured. A source in law enforcement bodies shared this news with a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

Two local residents were wounded, when an attempt was undertaken to blow up a militia car.

Today, heavy rain in the Krasnodar Territory caused overflowing of mountain rivers and led to flooding of 20 settlements. As a result of the flood eleven persons were lost, said Boris Frolov, deputy head of the investigatory division of the city of Tuapse.

Tanzila Mutsolgova, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, said that her earlier kidnapped son Ibrahim Tochiev, now under investigation, is exposed to pressure and deprivation of rights at the Nazran Interior Division for Ingushetia of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). She herself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

At the aviation base of Military Unit No. 40383, located near the "Bolshoe Savino" Airport, 120 recruits from Northern Caucasus refused to obey their commanders. In total, 500 soldiers and sergeants take their service there.

On October 15, in Yerevan, in front of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran a rally was held by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) against corrupt power structures.