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Samuel Eto'o, the forwarder of the Makhachkala "Anji" FC (Dagestan) and the member of the national team of Cameroon, was put into the list of 23 football players competing for the title of the best player in the world on the basis of the year's award. Samuel Eto'o is the only member of the Russian Championship, who entered the list of candidates, the FC's press service told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On November 1, the regular, namely, the third in this year, issue of the independent Caucasian magazine "Dosh" has been released. It contains materials on human rights violations in the North-Caucasian republics, interviews with famous people, photographs, cultural and historical sketches.

The Sheki Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the first instance court, which had sentenced the human rights activist Vidadi Iskenderov to 3 years of imprisonment.

Today, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted events dedicated to the 68 anniversary of the deportation of the Karachay nation to Central Asia.

Naima Alborueva, a resident of the city of Makhachkala, claims disappearance of Fatima Alborueva, her 19-year-old daughter.

The Main Military Investigatory Department disseminated the information that the soldier Andrei Popov, who claimed that he had spent ten years in captivity in Dagestan, acknowledged the fact of his desertion and asked to consider his case in a particular order. However, Andrei Popov refutes this information.

Yesterday, November, 1, about 200 people gathered in front of the Ministry of Nature Preservation of Armenia in order to stand up for maintenance of Trchkan, the most full-flowing waterfall of the republic. The participants of the action handed the Minister of Nature Preservation Aram Arutiunyan their statement consisting of seven demands.

Photo exhibition "August. 2008. Art against War" will be opened on November, 3, on the eve of the Day of People's Unity. Works by photojournalists and photos from the archives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation taken during the war of August, 2008, in South Ossetia will be presented there.

Batsiev Beslan, a native of Dagestan, who during 9 years was on the international search list on charges of belonging to militants, surrendered under the guarantees of the Adaptation Commission, which is helping the people, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities.

On Monday, October 31, Elchin Sadygov, the lawyer of Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", who had been arrested on October 28 in Azerbaijan, has filed four complaints at once.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, "black archaeologists" continue to plunder the unique necropolis near the village of Zayukovo. This was reported by Victor Kotlyarov, an historian and ethnographer.

Each year, on October 31, all the countries of the Black Sea region commemorate the International Day of the Black Sea. On October 30, at a rally held in the city of Tuapse, ecologists and representatives of political parties protested against commissioning of the Tuapse bulk terminal of the Company "Evrokhim".

Azer Akif oglu Abbaszade, a soldier of the National Army, born in 1993, died of croupous pneumonia and internal bleeding. The incident was recorded in the unit of the Ministry of Defence, deployed in the city of Barda.

On October 31, in Rostov-on-Don, a picket was held within the action "Strategy-31". According to Vladislav Ryazantsev, one of the organizers, it was the first time, when the rally had been coordinated by the city administration at once, without litigation; however, during the rally, street lighting lanterns were switched off.

Within the framework of commemoration actions devoted to the victims of Ossetian-Ingush conflict in Nazran Coordination Council of non-governmental organizations of Ingushetia held a Conference of the republican community. The participants of the action adopted an appeal to the authorities of Russia and Ingushetia with advise on solution of the problem of Prigorodny district and Vladikavkaz.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has sanctioned two-month custody of Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of the Other Russia, on charges of threatening the life of a state officer, who administered justice.

Leader of Rostov "Left Front" Vladislav Riazantsev was detained by the police. He is accused of disorderly conduct. As a sign of protest the oppositionist went on a starvation.

Albert Gabaraev, team-mate of unregistered presidential candidate Jambolat Tedeev, was beaten up in Thkhinval.

Within the framework of an ecologic action "Plant your tree" 40 thousand trees and 1,5 million flowers have been planted in Vladikavkaz since the beginning of this year. Young plants of fir-trees, pine-trees, thuya, birch-trees, maple trees and various bushes were planted in the capital of North Ossetia.

Today the councils for release on parole in Georgia took the decision of release 36 convicts this month, the Ministry of Execution of Sentences, Probation and Legal aid of Georgia reports. Decisions of these councils are ultimate and do not need trial.