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In the evening on October 20, on their way back home from the Republic of Dagestan, two residents of Ingushetia - Khutiev, Mohamed Aslanbekovich, and Khashagulgov, Aslan Yakhyaevich (a nephew of Issa Khashagulgov, earlier arrested on suspicion of committing the terror act in Vladikavkaz). According to relatives of the missing persons, Mohamed and Aslan are employees of the Ministry of Construction of Ingushetia.

On October 18, three residents of Elborus, workers of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Ropeways of Elborus" Asker Tavkeshev, Mohamed Alchagirov and Anatoly Mammeev left their homes in Kabardino-Balkaria and disappeared.

Twelve men who danced lezginka in the streets and verbally abused passers-by, received ten days in jail for breaking public order, said Victoria Baigulova, head of the press service of the Stavropol administration.

Today, at the trial on the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), defendant Azamat Akhkubekov filed a motion to summon Khachim Shogenov, former Minister of Internal Affairs, as a witness.

Roman Tolstikov, ex-chief of investigation unit of Department of Interior Affairs was detained in Stavropol for suspicion of an attempt of taking a bribe of one million rubles.

Five people injured during the act of terror in the capital of North Osetia on September, 9, are still staying in Moscow hospitals. This news came from the Permanent Mission of the republic under the President of the Russian Federation.

From the start of 2010, the Northern Caucasus saw 10 attacks committed by 12 suicide bombers, in which 49 persons were lost, apart from the bombers, and 308 persons more suffered. Two more such terror acts, according to law enforcers, were prevented.

In the course of a special operation conducted in the wooded area in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, two suspected militants were liquidated, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The city of Tyrnyauz of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

The roundtable held on October 19 considered the idea of the law on the rights and duties of adolescents. It is planned that an entire chapter in it will be on parents and inadmissibility of breaking children's rights.

Businessman Marat Ramazanov, a former deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan, was murdered tonight in Makhachkala, said the press service of the local MIA.

The resort city of Sochi has closed the Fifth International Festival "Cinema without Barriers", dedicated to life of people with disabilities. The jury marked a total of 13 films in different categories. Prizes were granted to filmmakers from Germany, USA, Sweden, Great Britain, France and Russia.

Krasnodar Territory occurred in power of "high water" - there are casualties and victims; the calamity caused multimillion losses; electoral battles in southern Russia continue after voting; Georgia accepts residents of Northern Caucasus in visa-free mode, while Russia withdraws its troops from the Ossetian-Georgian border, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 11-17, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Human rights activists from Armenia sent a letter to Torbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), whose visit to Armenia will take place in the coming days. In the letter members of several public organizations draw Mr Jagland's attention to systematic human rights violations in their country.

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.