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Without waiting for the official results from the Central Election Commission (CEC), Irakli Garibashvili, the Georgian Prime Minister, has congratulated the members of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party on the victory at municipal elections.

The Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) has stated that its observers came under pressure at polling stations where election violations were recorded. In three cases, observers were forced to leave polling stations.

At elections in Georgia, there were cases of observers' non-admission to polling stations and violations in drafting documents, the NGO named "Fair Elections" has stated.

The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has unreasonably recognized no violations of the law when placing "bloody banners" with images of oppositionists, Georgian analysts have stated.

The case of the chief physician of the Teberda Resort in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who was involved in the murder of Jewish children in 1942, declassified by the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau), adds nothing new to what is already known, the historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

The administration of the Rustavi Prison is not letting the advocates of Mikhail Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, to visit him, despite the fact that he went on a hunger strike after detention.

The hearings on the claim on violations of the "International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination" lodged by Armenia against Azerbaijan will be held on October 14 and 15; and on the similar claim of Azerbaijan against Armenia – on October 18 and 19, the UN International Court of Justice has informed.

Abkhaz MPs have held an emergency session in connection with the shooting in Sukhumi. The draft resolution on the removal of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) from office failed to collect the required number of votes.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, has declared a hunger strike, because he disagrees with the charges brought against him and treats himself as a political prisoner, Nino Lomdjariya, the country's Ombudsperson, has stated.

The court has ruled to apply an administrative arrest for two members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who joined the farmers' protest against the absence of water for irrigating fields in the Saatli District.

The Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili, is not going to pardon the third president of the country, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. She stressed that "all are equal before the law."

Law enforcers have detained Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili reports.

Mocking the Mikhail Saakashvili’s statements about returning to Georgia is inappropriate, President Salome Zurabishvili emphasizes. She notes that it is public agencies which should comment on the situation, not the “Georgian Dream” Party.

Mikhail Saakashvili is indeed in Batumi, but he will not appear in public officially until tomorrow, after the end of the voting in the municipal elections, the “United National Movement” (UNM) Party reports.

Vladislav Platonenko, who managed to escape from labour slavery in Buynaksk, returned to the Pskov Region. He intends to file a complaint to the police about torture at a brick factory.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has released a video message filmed amid streets of Batumi, again calling on his supporters to vote at the municipal elections, and the next day to march in columns towards Tbilisi. The politician has stressed that on October 2, he intends to personally take part in the voting at a polling station.

The Russia's FSB (Federal Security Bureau) agents have prevented a terror act in Cherkessk. A resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), born in 2001, has been detained on suspicion of preparing thereof.

Today, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, has written in his Facebook page that he had already returned to Georgia.

In Moscow, policemen have detained Ruslan Bobiev, a blogger from Sochi, whose photo session against the background of the Saint Basil's Cathedral caused discontent among believers. After the detention, the blogger apologized for his actions.

Parviz Akhmedov, another prosecution witness, has stated at trial that the testimonies in the case materials against Alikhan Adjamatov, a native of Dagestan, accused of aiding terrorists, had been falsified.