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The Investigatory Department for Kalmykia of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has completed an additional investigation into the criminal case, initiated on January 25, 1989, on facts of mass AIDS infection of children. The status of victims was awarded to 74 persons.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of the former militia officers Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a defendant in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

The priority version considered by inspectors as to kidnapping of Nurakhmed Magomedov, a member of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, was claiming a ransom, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported today.

Today, Zaur Agamuradov, a resident of Derbent, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the head of the criminal search of the Derbent GOVD (City Interior Department) Arif Magomedov has warned him about non-admissibility of wearing a beard. The GOVD gives no comment.

On October 25, the Vidnoe City Court of the Moscow Region will hold the first session on the case of OMON (riot police) agents, accused of kidnapping members of the Armenian Diaspora in Moscow for ransom.

Representatives of Ramzan Kadyrov are protracting the process of reviewing the appeal complaint against the acquittal on the case of slander in connection of statements about responsibility of the head of Chechnya for the murder of Natalia Estemirova, said Oleg Orlov, the head of the HRC "Memorial".

The investigatory division of the Army Unit No. 10732 is studying the circumstances of the death of the soldier who took his service under contract to the mountain-rifle brigade of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) deployed in the village of Zelenchukskaya in Karachay-Cherkessia.

Seven employees of the Oncology Dispensary of Kalmykia were hospitalized in Elista with symptoms of food poisoning.

The Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre has hosted a presentation of the book "Polina Zherebtsova's Diary", telling about the events of 1999-2002 in Grozny during the Second Chechen War, as seen by the teenager.

Public prosecutor's office of Southern Military Okrug (SMO) has established that the servicemen did not take part in collection and delivery of shells and fragments of ammunition from "Ashuluk" firing range in Astrakhan region to a receiving center of scrap metal, Press service of SMO reported.

The tenth meeting of persons aggrieved by "Olympic" resettlement was held in Sochi on October, 23. Over one hundred people arrived to participate in the action from different districts of the city.

Yesterday, October, 23, some strangers beat up a manager of a sauna in the town of Khasavyurt and set fire to the building, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported today.

Israil Yakhyaev, resident of Grozny who was detained on October, 19, and turned out to be one of the leaders of armed underground is arrested, Committee of Inquiry (CI) of Dagestan reported.

Today, a freight train was blow up on the North-Caucasian Railways in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, as reported by district law enforcers.

Today at 1:00 p.m. in Makhachkala, near the Avar Theatre, residents of the Untsukul and Gergebil District held a rally. They demanded compensation for their lands flooded during construction of the Irganai HPP (Hydroelectric Power Plant).

Today in the afternoon, a rally is held in central Moscow, in Bolotnaya Square, within the campaign declared by nationalists "Stop feeding Caucasus!"

In the Rostov Region, a grouping engaged in human trafficking and using slave labour has been stopped, the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) asserts.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, during the first nine months of this year, power agents killed 47 members of the armed underground in the territory of the Chechen Republic, more than 150 militants and their accomplices were detained and persuaded to surrender. According to the "Caucasian Knot" information, based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources, only from the beginning of the year till September, 53 suspected militants were killed in Chechnya, 121 people were detained or came to surrender.

According to a number of local experts and observers, statements of the Chechen leadership about complete elimination of blood feud conflicts in the republic can be incorrect. At the same time, on the next day after Kadyrov announced abolition of the Commission on reconciliation of families who were in the state of blood feud, the National Reconciliation Commission was established under the Spiritual Administration of the Republic. In future, among other tasks, the Commission will be engaged in reconciliation of 'blood feudists' (blood feud avengers).

Today, the hunger strike in defence of rights of the oppositional activists convicted in connection with the rally of April 2, which was held at the headquarters of the "Musavat" Party in Baku, was stopped. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), that the decision to stop the hunger strike was made by the Committee of the convicts' family members.