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Today Moscow has hosted a picket in memory of the victims of terror acts committed on September 9 in Vladikavkaz. The participants of the event have expressed their hope that the situation in North Ossetia would not turn into an ethnic conflict.

The Eighth International "High Fest" Festival was launched on October 1 in Armenia with participation 33 theatrical groups from 22 countries.

In the course of the special operation, the militants, who had barricaded in an apartment of a high-rise building in Engels Street in Makhachkala, wounded two young men, who tried to run across the yard, when residents were evacuated.

In 2011-2013, the EU will grant 30 million euros to Georgia in support of state institutions engaged in reforms.

The city hosted a protest rally in defence of the rights of shareholders, against the tyranny of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies and ignorance by state-owned bodies of citizens' legitimate rights.

At their sitting, the MPs voted 125:4 for the second reading of the new Constitution draft. The bill has no words that President is the head of the state.

In the evening on September 30, a cross was installed on the dome of the Armenian Church of Surb Khach located on Akhtamar Island (Turkey). All the works took several hours.

Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of Special-Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue de-mining agricultural lands in the Grozny District of Chechnya. Since the start of their work, they have cleared 15 hectares of mines, shells and various ordnances and neutralized 67 explosive items.

This school year, remote learning of children-invalids within the priority national project "Education" will be available not only for the residents of the regional capital. According to Yuri Komarov, Director of the Rostov sanatorium-boarding school No. 28, where the E-Learning Centre is located, now 150 children from 12 municipalities of the region will start studying there.

On September 29, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov moved an idea, when speaking at a sitting of the President's Council of Dagestan, of organizing of a congress of the peoples living in Dagestan for consolidation of the society in the fight against extremists. The initiative was ambiguously perceived in Dagestan.

The Chechen Office of the Russian Pension Fund has already issued 63,412 maternity capital certificates. However, many local certificate owners say that they prefer selling them to expand the possibilities of using state funds for the needs of their families.

Four Georgian servicemen from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) acting under the NATO auspice perished in performing their service duties. This was reported today by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Georgia.

Power agents, who made additional examination of the area in Semender settlement, located in Makhachkala outskirt, where a special operation was conducted on September 29, detected a powerful explosive device, together with components for making bombs and ammunition. This was reported by the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Starting October 1, according to the adopted amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code, the country will introduce the institute of jurors, who will pass their final verdicts to defendants. The jury will comprise 12 persons and two substitutes.

Vyacheslav Alyoshin, deputy director of the Stavropol cafe "Gloria", who on September 30 reported to the militia about the car-bomb parked outside his institution, plans to pass the money premium promised by city officials to a children's home.

In the area of the agrarian marketplace in Cherkessk, explosion experts have de-mined a car, under the bottom of which a grenade was attached. Now they check the interior and luggage compartment.

The stormy wind that struck the Rostov Region at night on October 1 cut electricity supply to 24,700 residents.

Today in the afternoon, the passenger ship "Photon" was thrown out by storm ashore in the Adler District of Sochi. The crew is safe.

On October, 26, the Appellate Court of Warsaw will be hearing the case on temporary arrest of Ahmed Zakaev who had been announced for international search by Russia, Barbara Trembska, Press secretary of the court reported.

Naiib Nasirov killed during a special operation in Dagestan had been possibly involved in a series of murders of the personnel of law enforcement bodies and representatives of the authorities, National Anti-terror committee (NATC) reported.