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Quite a number of Russian regions were planning to hold social protest actions on October 25 within the agenda of the All-Russian "Day of People's Anger". In particular, the action was held today in the cities of Astrakhan, Krasnodar and Sochi.

Today, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has convoked an emergency sitting of the National Security Council in the context of the armed incident in the Tsalendzhikh District in the West of Georgia where Giya Meboniya, head of the local administration, was lost.

President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev has confirmed at the press conference in Makhachkala the intention of Russian senator from Dagestan, businessman-billionaire Suleiman Kerimov to the Dagestan football club "Anzhi".

Specialists of the Ministry of Emergencies (MoE) of Chechnya believe that the territory of the Republic will not experience any more strong earthquakes with large-scale destructions like it was in Chechnya on October 11.

Today, Nagorno-Karabakh was the venue of exercises in tactics with field firing with participation of all types of fighting equipment. Presidents of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh Serzh Sarkisyan and Bako Saakyan watched the event.

In Moscow at night on October 25 Muslim Magomaev, an outstanding singer from Azerbaijan and master of Soviet variety art died in his 67th year from a sudden heart arrest.

An exhibition of original works of Salvador Dali is on at the Rostov local lore regional museum. This is a new project of Russian collector Alexander Shadrin from Ekaterinburg.

The "Caucasian Knot" was involved into participation in the action entitled "President of the Chechen Republic as Mirrored by Media" and was awarded the "Black Galosh", having failed to score enough "positive materials on the activities of the leadership of the Chechen Republic."

In the evening on October 22, following the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) expressed its disappointment with the statement of the EU Presidency on the presidential election in the country held on October 15.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has finished the investigation and sent to the court the criminal case on the murder of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org").

Leila Yunus, Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), has made a statement inviting to lodge claims against bosses of penitentiary establishments.

Late at night on October 23, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia (bordering on Chechnya), unknown persons kidnapped about 15 persons. Three Chechen militiamen can be among them. This information was provided by a source in law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.

Alexei Malashenko, expert of the Carnegie Foundation, asserts that today Chechnya is in the process of re-Islamization. In his opinion, by strengthening the Sufi branch of Islam in Chechnya and spreading the Sufi values President Ramzan Kadyrov is fighting against Salafites - his religious and political opponents, and by reviving traditional Islamic norms of behaviour, he keeps the society under control.

Karina Moskalenko, advocate of the family of the assassinated journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was not poisoned in France and, accordingly, there was no attempt on her life, police inspectors in the city of Strasbourg assert referencing to the former owner of the car now owned by Ms Moskalenko.

In Dagestan, Rasul Mamedrizaev and Seferali Sefimirzoev, accused of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party, have refused to plead guilty.

The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad (Ulyanovsk Region) has denied the petition on conditional-early release of former Colonel Yuri Budanov.

On October 22, the National Assembly of Armenia passed a decision to extend the term of office of the temporary parliamentary commission set up to investigate March 1 events in Yerevan by four months, till February 25.

Today, Moscow remembers the victims of the tragedy in "Dubrovka" Theatrical Centre - six years ago during performance terrorists took almost one thousand actors and spectators of the musical "Nord-Ost" as hostages.

The life of Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is kept at Penitentiary Establishment No. 12, is under threat, his father Emin Fatullaev has stated.

On October 21 in Makhachkala, the negotiations of servicemen-"Afghans" with representatives of the Republic's Government and State Duma deputies from Dagestan came to the end. As a result of the arrangements reached, the "Afghans" agreed not to restart their temporarily interrupted hunger strike.