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Despite the promises given to residents of the microdistrict located in Shamil Avenue in Makhachkala who yesterday blocked the main transport route of the capital in protest against cutting off electricity supply, their houses are still without electricity.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea has presented charges to the student from the city of Maikop, who had placed in the Internet a video record showing an execution of the natives of Dagestan and Tajikistan.

On October 17, the Leninskiy Court of North Ossetia made a conclusion about the presence of attributes of a crime in the actions of advocate Irina Kodzaeva, who had earlier accused the inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office of beating her.

Starting from 2004, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has registered over 700 cases of trafficking (trading in people). Only in the period from 2004 to 2006, 689 criminal cases of this sort were considered.

Today, a group of Russian human rights activists, Sergey Kovalyov and Valery Borschov, co-chairmen of the human rights fraction of the "Yabloko" Party, and Sharip Tsuruev, chairman of the regional branch of "Yabloko," among them, took part in the roundtable organized in Makhachkala by Farid Babaev, head of the Dagestan Regional Association of the "Yabloko" Party.

The court of the city of Ob, Novosibirsk Region, has recognized the "Siberia" Airline and insurers the Open Insurance Joint-Stock Company "Ingosstrakh" and the Open Joint-Stock Company "Afes" to be respondents to the claim of the family that had lost the breadwinner in the accident of Tu-154 airplane belonging to the "Siberia" Airline in August 2004.

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Military Court, Stavropol Territory, has sentenced Pyotr Vasyutenko, commander of the frontier post of the Military Unit 2011, accused of excess of his official powers entailing grave consequences, to one and half years of conditional imprisonment.

21 American congressmen have refused to support Resolution 106 on genocide of Armenians. Only during the latest 2 days 12 US legislators recalled their signatures under the document.

Representatives of the youth organization of the "Freedom" Political Movement demand immediate release of the four arrested activists of the Youth Movement "Georgia Without Violence."

Colonel Alizade Guseinov, head of the Gobustan Closed Prison, has informed that life prisoner Mekhman Muradov, who is kept in this prison, has stopped his hunger strike.

The advocate and public defenders of the former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving his term at a general custody colony for disclosure of state secrets, have told in detail about how law enforcement bodies are breaching his rights.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia continue investigating the incident in the city of Karabulak, where on October 15 as a result of shelling two local Russian-speaking residents were killed and two more persons wounded.

Currently, there are nine persons accused in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya, Public Prosecutor Vyacheslav Smirnov has informed.

The Public Committee in defence of political prisoner Mikhail Trepashkin has expressed indignation at slander information in relation to Lyubov Kosik, defender of the ex-FSB officer, disseminated by Trepashkin's public defender Sergey Kuznetsov.

The authorities of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, have failed to sanction a meeting that was to be held by the relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan.

The government of Dagestan has allotted 13 million roubles to compensate the damage caused by three counterterrorist special operations.

Today, the Lazarevskoe District Court has released from custody three out of seven OMON officers accused of beating tourists in summer of 2006 in the city of Sochi (Krasnodar Territory).

Mekhman Muradov, a life prisoner of the Gobustan closed prison of Azerbaijan, has sewn up his mouth and went on a hunger strike.

Ali Insanov, former Minister of Public Health complains of his custody conditions. The ex-Minister who is kept in the penitentiary establishment No. 13 was placed into a barrack for 150 inmates.

In the opinion of Armen Aivazyan, Director of the "Ararat" Centre of Scientific-Strategic Studies, Resolution 106, approved one of these days by the US Congress, is considering many acute issues for Armenians, and this is its main distinction for the better from a number of similar documents adopted in some other countries.