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In Dagestan, in Khasavyurt, the city authorities have started urgent fund-raising with people and businesses to pay off the accrued debts for electricity. This was reported by Nurmagomed Nurmagomedov, an official from the city administration.

The consideration of the case against Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, who is accused of the brutal suppression of a prison riot, is unreasonably delayed, including by self-disqualification of prosecutor. This was stated by the defendant's advocate David Dekanoidze and the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association.

The lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova has requested the payrolls of the ex-policemen, dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for health reasons, from the OVD (Interior Division) of Khasavyurt and Kazbek ROVD (District OVD).

The claim of the GALA lodged to the European Court of Human Rights ( ECtHR) against the Republic of Armenia is already within the jurisdiction of the Court. In the near future, the so-called stage of discussing the claim will start. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Armenuhi Vardanyan, the editor-in-chief of the Internet edition "Galatv".

On Tuesday, Fuad Gakhramanly, the Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was summoned to the Baku Main Police Office (BMPO), where he was warned about the inadmissibility of uncoordinated protest actions.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) of Nagorno-Karabakh has ruled to dismiss the complaint of the defence of the students David Barsegyan and Rafael Avakyan, convicted for treason in the form of espionage to 11 and 10 years of imprisonment respectively.

In Azerbaijan, in the context of the "day of silence", on the eve of the presidential election, this morning they removed posters of candidates away from the promotional stands, specially installed in the streets. Independent experts point to the publication by state-owned newspapers of the report from the sitting of the Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Ilham Aliev; while the ruling party accuses the oppositional newspapers of violating the rules of the campaign.

The today's session of the Moscow City Court (MCC) that considers the murder of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya was postponed again because of the quarantine at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the defendant Sergey Khadjikurbanov is kept.

Independent journalism in the Krasnodar Territory is a combat sport, says the report of the "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB), the organization for protection of the freedom of information, published to the anniversary of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and to the start of the Winter Olympic Torch Relay.

The participants from Azerbaijan at the Civil Society Forum of the member-states of the EU programme "Eastern Partnership", which was held on October 4-7 in Chisinau, organized a rally in defence of the rights of political prisoners kept in Azerbaijani prisons.

The Azerbaijani authorities have failed to create conditions for effective campaigning for the presidency; the candidates had no equal opportunities, since the incumbent President Ilham Aliev was in the privileged position by using the state resources and country's TV Channels, which have broadly covered the incumbent's current activities.

In parallel with the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics Torch Relay, the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) has started its project "Alternative Map of Olympic Torch Relay", aimed to draw attention to human rights problems in the towns and cities visited by the torch of the Sochi Olympics.

From October 2, the Dagestani city of Khasavyurt has water supply outage, local residents assert. The local prosecutor's office has received no citizens' complaints; however, it making a check under its own initiative, said Gasan Yusupkadiev, the City Prosecutor.

Moscow has hosted the solemn opening of Russia's first memorial to the murdered journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya. As stated by Anna Stavitskaya, the advocate of Anna's children, the murder is not yet fully solved.

All the public health facilities of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have their due licenses, said Lilia Shomakhova, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Health of the KBR. According to her story, after the Prosecutor's Office had identified cases of lack of licenses, these institutions were duly licensed.

Today, the trade unions of North Ossetia have held a rally in Vladikavkaz demanding higher wages. On Monday, a number of cities of Southern of Russia, including Rostov, Krasnodar, Astrakhan, Elista, Volgograd and Maikop, held rallies and pickets within the All-Russian Trade Union Action "For Decent Work".

About 1000 people took part in Volgograd in a rally against rising electricity rates. Volgograd is irreversibly losing the status of an industrial centre, leaders of the regional council of trade unions assert. The action was held within the World Trade Union Day of Action "For Decent Work".

The analysis of political forces, peculiarities of operation of law enforcement bodies and courts, and holding elections in Northern Caucasus have been presented today by experts from the International Crisis Group (ICG) in their report "Northern Caucasus: Complexities of Integration (III): Governance, Elections and Rule of Law".

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has formed a jury, which will consider the murder case of Magomed Gamzatov, a Deputy of the Kizlyar City Assembly, and his relatives, said a source from the Court.

The Muslims of the village demand to rebuild the dismantled minaret and state a deliberate inciting an inter-religious conflict, "which opens the door to terrorism." In their turn, the Orthodox residents complain about the infringement of their rights by Muslims. The authorities and NGO activists wait for the conflict to be addressed at the level of legislation about religious sites.