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In Azerbaijan, advocate Elchin Sadygov are not allowed to visit Mekhman Guseinov, a blogger and a photo reporter of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), who was detained in the morning of October 2.

Till present, Olympic status of the constructed "Rosa Khutor" Alpine Resort brings only losses. This was stated by Vladimir Potanin, the head of the holding company "Interros". According to the businessman's statement, the authorities are not in a hurry to help investors of the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi.

Law enforcers have identified the suicide bomber who on September 23 committed the terror act at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) near the OVD (Interior Division) building in Dagestan.

Till October 9, all Chechen pilgrims to go for hajj this year will be sent to Saudi Arabia. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) for Chechnya.

In the evening of October 1, during the debates in the air of the Public TV of Azerbaijan, Djamil Gasanli, a presidential candidate of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), accused of corruption incumbent President Ilham Aliev, who was running for a third term.

The materials of the case of the death of 24 residents of Chechnya in the bombing of the village of Katyr-Yurt will be provided to the advocates who represent victims' interests. The relevant investigators' decision was announced at the today's court session in Grozny.

The Russia's Council of Muftis will not take part in celebrations of the 225th anniversary of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (CSAM), which is scheduled in the city of Ufa, because they disagree with a number of actions undertaken by the CSAM.

In Volgograd, the work of the public reception office, organized by members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the mini-park opposite the regional government, will be extended by a month, that is, until the end of October.

As reported by Ruslan Gereev, the director of the Centre for Islamic Studies of Northern Caucasus, the number of pilgrims, travelling to the hajj from Dagestan under support of Senator Suleiman Kerimov, has not decreased as compared with 2012. The first pilgrims supported by the charity line have already left for the hajj.

The Moscow City Court has rescheduled for October 8 the consideration of the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", because of quarantine at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where defendant Sergey Khadjikurbanov is kept.

The criminal case against Professor Mikhail Savva from Kuban State University, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre was sent to the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar. This was reported by the Court.

Valery Kardanov, ex-General Director of the Fuel Company of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) (a subsidiary of Oil-and-Gas Company "Rosneft") is suspected of embezzling a recreation centre in the nature reserve at foothills of Mount Elbrus.

The streets in the centre of Grozny are blocked for the passage of vehicles, and at intersections and main roads, enhanced police and military squads are on duty. The city authorities explain the enhanced security measures by upcoming celebrations for the series of events of October 5.

According to information published on the website of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Refugees and Resettlement, at present, in Georgia, there are more than 258,000 IDPs. Of them, more than 140,000 persons came from Abkhazia and more than 20,000 from South Ossetia.

Socially disadvantaged residents of Tbilisi, who live in a former building of railway hospital, have started a hunger strike, demanding to solve their housing problems.

The parents of disabled children have stopped their hunger strike in Volgograd, having received promises of the officials of the All-Russian Popular Front (ARPF) to satisfy their demands, as the former hunger-strikers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Kizilyurt District Court has begun a retrial on the murder of a woman from the village of Nechaevka. The defendant – the casualty's uncle – has refused to plead guilty and testify.

Azerbaijan has completed a preliminary investigation into the case of theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of illegal possession of drugs. The case was sent to the court. The defendant remains in custody, despite the expiration on September 30 of the term of his arrest, said his advocate Jawad Javadly.

The Georgian authorities have denied entry to the Russian MP Vasily Likhachov, a member of the PACE delegation for monitoring the election in Georgia. This was stated by Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian delegation to the PACE office.

Today, at the Department of the Russian Pension Fund (RPF) for Dagestan, law enforcers have started searches and seizure of documents to be examined for fraud and embezzlement.