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Today in the morning, about 50 oppositionists tried to send crackers to Mayor-elect of Astrakhan Sergey Bozhenov, hinting on his soon arrest. The militia would not admit the activists into the mayoralty.

Execution of the ex-leader of Ingush opposition Maksharip Aushev; terror acts in Northern Caucasus; action of the opposition in Astrakhan, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of October 19-25 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On October 26, a court session was held in Dubai on the attempt case on Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion. For the first time, the police have promulgated the materials throwing the light on this crime.

Zubair Zubairuev, head of the "Echo Moskvy-Makhachkala" Radio, sent an application to the public prosecutor of Dagestan, asking him to make a warning to Abumuslim Murtazaliev, Chairman of the Public Chamber, on inadmissibility of approving extremist leaflets and saying that it was a "form of attempt to return journalists back into legal field."

On October 26, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting with the organizers and participants of the roundtable that took place in Makhachkala under the project "Peace to the Caucasus".

In spite of 7 years expired after the Dubrovka terror act in Moscow, nobody has until now answered a number of important questions; the main ones are: why was it impossible to do without storming the building, which entailed so many victims killed by unknown gas and why special troops killed all the terrorists, although many of them were unconscious? The questions were asked by Mikhail Kriger, activist of the Solidarity Union with Political Prisoners.

As reported by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, a criminal case on slander was initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Ingush human rights activists express their extreme concern of the murder of Maksharip Aushev, a republic's well-known public figure.

Rosa Malsagova, former editor-in-chief of the website Ingushetia.Org", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Maksharip Aushev's relations with President Yunus-Bek Evkurov were not cloudless. After execution of Aushev's nephew earlier this April, Maksharip Aushev has repeatedly accused the republic's leadership of inability to stop extrajudicial executions.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has stated that the murder of the well-known local oppositionist and public figure Maksharip Aushev was directed against the republic's leadership, and personally against him.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which suspended its work in Chechnya in mid-July this year after the murder of Natalia Estemirova, the leading expert of the organization, has not yet resumed its work in the republic. The decision on the issue can be expected in early November.

The members of Yamadaev family hope that in the course of litigation in Dubai, where the next court session is to be held today on the case dealing with the attempt on Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion of special troops of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), the names of all the persons involved in this crime, including the main customer, will be named.

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) believes that the murder of Maksharip Aushev, a well-known Ingush oppositionist and former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Org", causes doubts of whether President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has enough power to preserve the pluralism, which he tries to support, in his republic.

In Moscow, in Chistye Prudy, near the monument to Griboedov, a meeting has started in memory of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre. The United Civil Front is the organizer of the action.

After the incident with a failed kidnapping of Maksharip Aushev by unidentified power agents at the entrance to Nazran, he was shadowed by special services. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Lydia Mikhalchenko, editor of the website "Ingushetiyaru.org". According to her story, it was Aushev who had helped the film crew of the REN-TV to safely leave the republic, when they had problems with people of the former president of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov.

Volgograd is not fit for normal life of invalids. This statement was made by wheelchair invalid Oleg Semenenko in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

As reported by oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev, Maksharip Aushev, former owner of the website "Ingushetia.Org", was buried into his patrimonial cemetery in Surkhakhi village. According to his story, since morning, many people have gathered at the house of the victim.

Today in Makhachkala, a mine or a bomb blew up when a militia bus was passing by; a militiaman was wounded.

On October 23, Sergey Yezhov, editor of the website "Foreshorten", which covers the situation in Northern Caucasus, was kidnapped in Moscow. Today, Sergey sent a news item about himself from the city of Naberezhnye Chelny (Tatarstan).

Ibragim Khayauri, a brother of Rosa Khayauri, 48, who was killed during a special operation in Ordzonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, rejects the version of power agents that his murdered sister and her son Aslanbek Machukaev, 20, were militants and rendered armed resistance. He has stated it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.