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By November 1, about 355 prisoners will be released from penitentiary institutions of Georgia. This was reported on October 29 Sozar Subari, new Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance. At the same time, it became known that two parliamentary committees begin work on the draft law "On Amnesty."

The police of Ingushetia detained about 50 participants of the hunger striker, held by the public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel." Four hunger-strikers are still kept at the Nazran OVD (Interior Division), and their lawyers are not allowed to visit them. One participant of the protest action was seriously injured during the detention. This was reported by Idris Abadiev, the head of the public organization.

Today, Aslan Tkhakushinov, the leader of Adygea, and Johann Berger, Vice-President of the Italian province of South Tyrol, Minister of Agriculture and Tourism, signed a letter of intent, which defined the priority for cooperation in tourism and agriculture.

Residents of the city of Derbent and volunteers state that only the central streets of the city have been cleaned after the flooding and that the outskirts are still "buried in the mud". The Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports that the works to clean the city, affected by the flooding, have been completed.

Celebration of the holiday of Eid al-Adha, scheduled for today in the park named after Peter I in the city of Kizlyar, was not held, since the recreation area was cordoned off by armed law enforcement agents. This was reported by Magomed Kartashov, the organizer of the event.

Today, fifteen activists of the civil society of Azerbaijan presented to the public the "Memorandum on main directions of improvement of electoral legislation and guarantee of democracy at October 2013 presidential election". The authors of the document offer all the political forces of the country to discuss their proposals for development of joint measures to reform the electoral legislation.

During the shooting that occurred during the special operation in Khasavyurt, held on October 28, five policemen were wounded. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

Igor Trunov and Lyudmila Aivar, the lawyers of relatives of six Moscow schoolchildren, who drowned in the area of Yeisk Split of the Azov Sea in July 2010, have appealed to the State Duma of the Russian Federation with a proposal to amend the Article of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, which determines the amount of compensation for the deaths of minors.

On October 29, at 03:00 p.m., in Ingushetia, about 10 persons, supporters of the regional public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", began a hunger strike to demand the resignation of the republic's leaders.

The panel of judges of Moscow city court reduced the sentence to Vitaly Vasin and Nicolay Dvoinyakov acknowledged guilty on the case of mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square in December of 2010, Press Service of the court informed.

Five committees will be functioning in the Supreme Council (SC) of Adzharia elected recently. Their chairpersons were elected yesterday, October, 28, at a session of SC by secret ballot. It is also already known that there will be four fractions in the Parliament of Adzharia.

Anastasia Alexeyeva (Ganieva), wife of one of the leaders of “Sunzha” paramilitary group Timur Khayauri, called to the telephone hotline for remorseful members of armed underground created in Ingushetia. She gave herself up, Secretary of Security Council of the republic Ahmed Kotiev reported.

Pilots of McLaren MP4 GT3 race car Frederick Makovievski and Steph Dusseldorf won the final competition of GT3 City Challenge going on in Baku.

In New York, Khadija Ismajlova, an observer of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty was awarded the prize of the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) "For Courage in Journalism" for the year 2012.

Some of the miners of the city of Chiatura have agreed to the offered 32-percent increase in wages and stopped their strike. Those who have decided to go on with their protest assert that the proposed salary increase will be made by reducing the premiums.

As reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by Mukhamed Cherkesov, the chairman of the movement "Adyge Khase – Circassian Parliament" of Karachay-Cherkessia, as of today, the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia has received a total of 24 Syrian Circassians.

Relatives of Yunus Didigov, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was detained by special services of North Ossetia, know nothing about his whereabouts, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by his wife and father.

About 25 Volgograd residents took part in a series of pickets held today against extraction of nickel in the area of the Khopyor River.

The delegates of the Extraordinary Congress of Dagestani Nations, held in Moscow on October 26, expressed distrust the current authorities of the republic, offered to dissolve the People's Assembly of Dagestan and hold a general election of the head of the republic.

The employees of the Borjomi Factory No. 1 have stopped their strike; the production process is fully restored, says the statement of the "IDS Borjomi Georgia", the owning company of the factory, released on October 26.