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In Ingushetia, 20 NGOs, which cooperated with foreign secret services, stopped their activities. This was reported by Yuri Seryshev, Chief of the FSB Department in the Republic of Ingushetia.

Today, in Makhachkala, 11 suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and suspected accomplices of militants were detained. This was reported by a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies.

Khabib Saipudinov, a resident of Dagestan, cut his veins to protest against the fact that the administration of the penitentiary institution in Kalmykia did not allow prisoners to pray. This was reported by Patimat Khabibova, the wife of Khabib Saipudinov, a resident of Kizlyar.

On October 12, in Khasavyurt, at a roadside in Yuzhnaya Street, an unidentified explosive device detonated at the moment, when the car of Saigidpasha Umakhanov, City Mayor, passed by. Nobody suffered.

Special Military Ombudsman will be appointed in Georgia. This was reported by Irakli Alasaniya, the candidate for the position of Minister of Defence.

On October 12, the capital of Armenia hosted the rally entitled "Yerevan and My City", which was initiated by the public organization "Bridge of Hope" and which was attended by about 50 persons with disabilities.

On October 11, at the village of Khebda of the Shamil District of Dagestan, the trial of two police officers, accused of beating a 14-year-old Makhmud Akhmedov, was continued. The court listened to two witnesses.

In Armenia, at the court hearing on the case of the death of contract officer Artak Nazaryan, one of the witnesses retracted his testimony, given at the preliminary investigation. Representatives of the parties believe that witness Smbat Sargsyan gave testimony under pressure.

The today's court session on the case of use of torture against Vyacheslav Merekha at the Predgorny District of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Stavropol Territory extended the term of home arrest to the defendants for the entire period of the trial. This was reported by Natalia Spiridonova, a relative of Vyacheslav Merekha.

All persons, who were detained today after Friday prayers in the village of Novokayakent of the Kayakent District, were released by the police after printing their fingerprints and recording their passport data. This was reported by one of the detainees.

Tomorrow, October 13, is the 7th anniversary of the date of militants' attack on law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, committed in 2005. The trial on the attack is underway for four years already. The trial is one of the largest in Russia by the number of defendants and the number of charge volumes. According to local experts, the trial influences all aspects of social and political life of the republic.

Tatiana Lokshina, Deputy Chief of the Moscow Branch of the international Human Rights Watch (HRW), engaged in solution of human rights problem in Northern Caucasus and in South Ossetia, left the Russian Federation. According to her, her departure is not connected with incoming threats.

The next hearing on a lawsuit of blogger Tigran Kocharyan against the newspaper "The Fourth Authority" in Armenia was appointed on October, 16, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In the evening of October, 11, dead body of Yunus Akhilgov, teacher of local madrasa, was found in the stanitsa of Troitskaya, Sunzha district of Ingushetia, a representative of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

A delegation of South Ossetia that took part in the 21st round of Geneva discussions on October, 10 and 11, during the debate expressed its concern about compulsive presence of Georgian policemen along the whole perimeter of South Ossetian borders, Murat Djioev, Plenipotentiary of the President for post-conflict settlement, reported from Geneva.

Georgian corporal MindaiaAbashidze perished in Afghanistan while carrying out a combat mission in process of a peacemaking operation.

Members of power ministries in the settlement of Kayakent, Kayakent district of Dagestan, are taking the congregation away from the mosque and going to carry them to the district police department, an eyewitness of the event reported.

Investigation is clarifying the circumstances of a road accident in the rural settlement of Ekazhevo with the participation of a policeman who knocked down a fourteen-year-old gill, Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Ingushetia informed.

On October 17, Sergey Cherepovsky, the leader of The Other Russia in Rostov-on-Don, is to face trial on charges of disseminating extremist materials and demonstration of Nazi symbols. According to prosecutors, the oppositionist disseminated and demonstrated prohibited materials through a social network. Sergey Cherepovsky himself associates the charges against him with his political activities.

The trial against Boris Papayan, a participant of the "March of Millions", held in Rostov-on-Don, has been postponed till October 30. The next court session is to question the policeman, who detained the defendant and who failed to appear at the trial. Besides, the court intends to repeatedly request the materials of the video surveillance system "Safe City".