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After presidential election in Azerbaijan, it will be much easier to settle such complicated issues like the Karabakh problem, believes Mary Jovanovich, new US ambassador to Armenia. Meanwhile, experts in Nagorno-Karabakh think that the election could not be democratic.

Participation of such serious agencies like the Committee for Natural Resources, Nature Management and Ecology of the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the process of "ecologization" of Olympiad-2014 can become useful, since not only the public should be anxious of all this, believes Andrei Rudomakha, coordinator of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus.

Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria detained on September 24 in Stavropol Territory under suspicion of participating in attack on Republic's power agencies are exposed to beatings. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by advocate Elena Bairamkulova, who is defending one of the detainees - Rustam Karanashev, born in 1982, a resident of Stary Cherek village, Urvan District.

Magomed Khamkhoev, a native of Ingushetia, rejects any "Beslan trace" in his kidnapping and only marks that his kidnappers spoke Ossetian and Russian.

The Council of Europe is dissatisfied with low efficiency of Russia's internal investigation of the incidents, which make the grounds for filing complaints by residents of the Chechen Republic to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.

The European Court for Human Rights has found Russia guilty of "supposed deaths" of two Chechen teenagers, whom nobody ever saw again after their detention by OMON (Special Militia) fighters in June 2000. According to the verdict, Russia shall pay out 74,000 euros of compensation to their mothers.

The murder case of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", oppositional to the Ingush authorities, will go to the court in the near future.

Today at 4:45 p.m. a VAZ car blew up in the territory of the headquarters of the peacekeeping forces in Tskhinvali. Seven persons were killed by the explosion and seven more wounded, two of them are in hospital in a grave condition.

The authorities of Somalia refute the information about their intent to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia with reference to a missive from Somalia's diplomatic department.

On October 1, ecological organizations sent an appeal to Chairman of Russian Government Vladimir Putin about a great number of ecologically unacceptable solutions in the draft general plan of the city of Sochi. They assert that a significant part of these solutions are in conflict with the current legislation of Russia.

The press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports that on October 1-2 the Armenian party shelled the positions of the National Army of Azerbaijan in several directions at a time.

Today, about 2 p.m. in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, an attack was made on Oyus Gurtuev, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Elders of Balkar People (BEBP). The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the BEBP.

The Public Prosecutor of Azerbaijan has reported detention of the members of the terrorist organization named "Forest Brothers", accused of committing the terror act in "Abu-Bekr" Mosque.

The Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of placement of the "Chronology of Magomed Evloev's murder" on the website "Ingushetia.Ru"/"Ingushetia.Org". The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Rosa Malsagova, editor-in-chief of the website.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls Russia to cancel its recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and "give complete respect to independence and territorial integrity of Georgia, including the principle of inviolability of its borders."

Armenians of Dzhavakh express hope that after the visit of President of Armenia to Georgia, the problems of this region will find their settlement. This was stated to journalists by Shirak Torosyan, Chairman of the "Dzhavakh" Community Union and Deputy of the National Assembly from the ruling Republican Party, in his comments on the one-day visit of Serzh Sarkisyan to Georgia.

Mohammed Khandule, Somalia Ambassador to Moscow, said today in a press conference that Somalia is going to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Azerbaijan wants to achieve a step-by-step settlement of the Karabakh problem, said Elmar Mamedyarov, head of Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), while making comments on the results of the meeting held in New York by Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Armenia, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

A group of residents of Otrev village, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, was shelled near Georgian border, as a result, one person was lost and one was wounded. The Republic's MIS asserts that the attack was committed by members of a Georgian raiding group.

Both Georgia and Russia should share responsibility for the war in South Caucasus and its consequences, as stated by Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe.