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The verdict against five persons of the Grozny District of Chechnya, who were accused of trying to undermine the train set of cars with petroleum products and who were sentenced in this June by the Chechen court to long terms of imprisonment, has been upheld by the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation.

Workers from Tajikistan, who built an Olympic facility in Sochi and claimed non-payment of their wages, have received from their employer a portion of their earnings, in total, 2.7 million roubles. The total wage arrears to the workers were 4.8 million roubles.

In the village of Churtakh of the Lak District of Dagestan, the Caucasian House of Translations will be built to preserve and promote literature in the languages of the peoples of the Caucasus. The project was presented at the book fair "Tarki-Tau 2013" held in Makhachkala.

In Yerevan, the action organized by supporters of reconstruction the Market Hall was attended by about 100 persons. Opponents of the reconstruction state they will continue their protest actions.

The Embassy of Azerbaijan intends to arrange a meeting of consular officials with Orkhan Zeinalov, who was detained on suspicion of committing a murder, said Polad Bülbüloğlu, the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia.

In the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, the police have closed the women's madrasa, explaining that the institution had no license for educational activities.

In Yerevan, the NGO "Following Ancestors' Footsteps" has organized a march against "gender perversion", which was attended by about a hundred people. They demanded from the authorities to review the decision to adopt the Law "On Ensuring Equal rights and Opportunities for Men and Women" and recall it.

The Court has upheld the ruling of the first instance to refuse to recognize the monograph "The International Tribunal for Chechnya" to be an extremist material.

Law enforcement bodies have prevented a series of terror acts in Ingushetia, scheduled during the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayram). As reported by the Russia's National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC), four persons have been detained on suspicion of plotting terror acts.

The Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced Mouldy Khabaev to 14 years of imprisonment in the case of the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995. Advocates of Mouldy Khabaev intend to challenge the verdict.

In Sochi, court marshals have started to evict members of the Toromonyan family from the house belonging to them. A road included in the list of the Olympic facilities is to be constructed at the place of the Toromonyan family's house. Residents of the house, including six children, claim that they have nowhere to go.

On the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, unidentified persons tried to hack the website of the Council of Muftis of Russia (CMR), and on the holiday, the website has been completely disabled.

On October 15, Muslim residing in regions, included in the Southern and the North-Caucasian Federal Districts, celebrated the Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bayram). The mosques served festive sermons and prayers, poor people received help, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondents report.

In Moscow, near the "Prazhskaya" metro station, about 200 participants of the action organized by nationalists violated public order and were brought to the police station. This was reported by an official from the Chief Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow.

The National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan has planned to hold on October 20 a protest action with a demand to cancel the results of the presidential election and appoint a new election.

Orkhan Zeinalov, a native of Azerbaijan, who was detained today on suspicion of killing Yegor Scherbakov, has pled guilty in his informal talks with the police, said a source from the Moscow City Police.

The defence of Ali Taziev, also known as Magas, who has been sentenced today to life imprisonment, believes that the verdict is too severe and intends to appeal against it.

Part of the population of Georgia continues to protest against the participation of Georgian athletes in the Olympic Games in Sochi. The online petition against this participation has been signed by 9916 persons. However, so far, the government of Georgia sees no arguments for boycotting the Olympics.

Bosses of the Russia's Central Military District refute the information about beating in the Chelyabinsk Region of a soldier recruited from Astrakhan. As reported by Colonel Yaroslav Roschupkin, an assistant to the Commander of the CMD, the soldier, who, according to media reports, was operated on and lost his spleen, in reality, underwent a planned removal of the appendix.

The commission of the CoE against racism is fixing in Russia massive violations of the labour legislation and fundamental rights of migrants, as well as the harassment by law enforcers of natives from Northern Caucasus and Gypsies.