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Violations of journalists' rights during the passed elections in Astrakhan "look like an epidemic." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Boris Timoshenko, head of the monitoring service of the Glasnost Protection Fund.

Today in Nalchik, the Concord Square hosted a rally in memory of the law enforcers who fell victim of terrorists on October 13, 2005.

Today, at the sitting of the National Antiterrorist Committee, its chairman, director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov told about the course of investigation of the attempt on President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov and about the war on militants in Northern Caucasus.

Only a powerful protest wave in the society can force the parliament of Armenia refuse to ratify the Armenian-Turkish Protocols, which were signed in Zurich on October 10, as Masis Mailyan, chairman of the Public Board for foreign policy and security of Nagorno-Karabakh, believes.

The next session of the Sabail District Court of Baku on the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and causing bodily injuries, due to take place on October 13, was cancelled for non-appearance of the victims and their witnesses in the courtroom.

Actions in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya three years after her murder; developments at resonant litigations; negotiations of heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Karabakh settlement; signing by Turkey and Armenia of Protocols on development of mutual relations; elections in a number of regions of the SFD, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of October 5-11 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the Leninskiy Court of the capital of Dagestan has ruled to return the criminal case against the editor-in-chief and four journalists of the republic's weekly "Chernovik", accused of kindling social enmity, back to the Prosecutor's Office for completion. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Biyakai Magomedov, the lawyer of the edition.

In Astrakhan, in the yard of Gymnasium No. 4, deputy of the regional duma and his retinue beat journalists of the Internet media "Caucasian Knot" and Astrakhan-based newspaper "Zhitel" (Resident), who tried to film the work of the local electoral commissions Nos. 524 and 527.

A new suspect in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", Oleg Shoshin, former employee of the Operative Division of the GUVD (City Interior Department) of Moscow, told about secret links between Dmitri Pavlyuchenkov, the main witness of the prosecution, and defendant Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, ex-worker of the Moscow UBOP (Organized Crime Counteracting Department).

Today, frontier guards of the Russian FSB have detained and searched a group of ecologists who were examining and inspecting the Olympic construction of the combined road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana for breaking the frontier regime. This was reported by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

In Derbent, where at election of the city head only 22 polling stations out of 36 were open, repeated voting can be appointed.

In the city of Karachaevsk, 20 minutes after closure of polling stations, messages from observers started to arrive that electricians suggested replacing illumination devices in the premises.

On October 12 in Makhachkala, Abulmuslim Murtazaliev, Chairman of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, said at the roundtable on the topic "On public-political broadcasting of Dagestan television that the authors of the so-called "execution lists" just wanted "to bring journalists back to the legal field."

Today, at the Zurich University, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Turkey Edward Nalbandyan and Ahmet Davutoglu put their signatures under the documents on normalization of relations between these two countries - the "Protocol on Development of Mutual Relations" and "Protocol on Establishing Diplomatic Relations".

The ceremony of signing the Protocols "On Development of Mutual Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Turkish Republic" and "On Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Turkish Republic", planned for today in Zurich, has been postponed by unknown period of time, as a member of the American delegation told journalists.

Murad Muradov, chairman of the precinct electoral commission No. 30 of the Dagestan city of Derbent, was beaten and kidnapped today in the afternoon by unidentified persons. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Nariman Abdulmutalibov, deputy head of the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of Dagestan.

Today, on October 10, Georgia said farewell to its well-known composer, artistic director of the popular vocal company "Iveria" Alexander Basilaya, who died on October 3 in Germany from lung cancer.

Today, a filming crew of the REN TV Channel was attacked by unidentified persons in Derbent (Dagestan).

The Azerbaijani citizens who profess Christianity experience no inconveniences. This was stated on October 9 by Father Alexander, Bishop of Baku and Pre-Caspian region, at the press conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of revival of the Baku-Pre-Caspian Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Without permit of Georgian authorities, a Turkish building company starts rebuilding the destroyed stadium in Tskhinvali. The works are funded by the Alisher Usmanov's Foundation.