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The national team of Karachai-Circassia has been recognized to be the winner of the first sports festival of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) - the Caucasian Games.

The innovation project "Opening of 50 rural family businesses", which has acquired the status of the pilot project of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, is implemented in the Pervomaiskiy Rural Municipality Formation of the Republic of Kalmykia.

The Oktiabrskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don has sanctioned the arrest of the director of the construction company "Monolith", suspected of deceiving about 400 real estate shareholders to the sum of 150 million roubles, the press service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Rostov Region reports.

As reported by the press service of the regional prosecutor's office, a criminal case against a GIBDD (Russian equivalent for the STSI - State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) company commander and nine inspectors, accused of taking bribes when on duty service, has been sent to Astrakhan Regional Court.

Initially, four candidates were registered to the post of the head of Gergebil village, Gergebil District of Dagestan, but all of them recalled at the request of the village community. Thus, the election of the village head planned for October 10 was cancelled for absence of candidates.

A motor rally of the students of the Adyg State University (ASU), performed on October 4-6, was dated to the university's jubilee and was held under the motto "By Roads of Friendship".

On the initiative of the opposition Conservative Party of Georgia and the People's Party, on October 7 in Tbilisi, in front of the Parliament of Georgia, a solidarity protest rally was held by refugees, teachers and street traders, who spoke in defence of their rights.

In late September five of the natives of the Caucasus disappeared in Russian capital; their relatives suggest that they were detained by security agents and kept in one of Moscow's detention facilities. The wives of two of them - Zelimkhan Chibiev and Magomed Israpilov - told about it to human rights activists and asked for legal assistance.

A memory rally of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was murdered 4 years ago, took place in Ingushetia, in the office of the human rights organization "Mashr".

From 300 to 500 persons gathered on October 7 in Moscow at the rally in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, a reporter of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was murdered four years ago. The event was attended by many journalists of Russian and foreign mass media.

The editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta" in Moscow has started bagging subscriptions for commemorating Anna Politkovskaya and renaming Lesnaya Street, where she lived and died, in her honour.

On October 26, the Court of Appeal will sit in Warsaw to consider the case of provisional arrest of Ahmed Zakaev, said the court spokesperson Barbara Trembska.

According to latest data, as a result of today's shelling of the house, used by the local Muslim community as a mosque, one member of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Abkhazia was killing and two more wounded.

On October 4, a trial began in Sochi of Dmitri Novikov, former judge of the Khosta District Court, accused of a fraud with 17 land plots located in Kurortny Avenue. He was brought to the courtroom, where not so long ago he had held litigations himself, at gunpoint and in handcuffs. Mr Novikov rejects all the charges and declares that the Territorial Court and inspectors have done everything to conceal objective information from citizens.

In the city of Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia, unidentified assailants opened automatic fire on an employee of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE); he died in hospital.

Some unidentified persons have set fire to the office of a military investigator in Volgograd who had been working at corruption cases. Official documents kept in the office have not been damaged, Press service of the military investigative Department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of Russia reports.

On October, 7, Thomas Hammarberg, Commissar of Council of Europe for Human rights, delivered a report on the results of the latest visits to Georgia in which he called for the parties to strive for improving the situation in the sphere of human rights defense in the regions injured as a result of the August war of 2008.

Militiamen in Dagestan beat up Zinfira Mirzayeva, a lawyer, and detained her on accusation of complicity to terrorists, Alexander Cherkasov, member of the Council of "Memorial" Human Rights center, reported.

European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has acknowledged the Russian Federation guilty of kidnapping of two young residents if Chechnya in 2002 and 2003.

On October, 7, the Committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation brought a new accusation of organizing the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", against Sergey Khajikurbanov, ex-major of the Moscow Directorate for Combating Organized Crime.