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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".

The Lesken District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has granted the motion to take into custody two staff members of the GIBDD (road police), suspected of beating a driver and his minor son. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Relatives and compatriot villagers of Shamil Saipulaev, the leader of the village of Tsatanikh of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, who disappeared in Khasavyurt on October 6, plan to hold in Makhachkala a protest rally on October 25. The father of the disappeared man claims police inaction. The Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports that the investigation is underway and refuses to disclose new information.

Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal continued consideration of the appeal against to the decision of the court that sentenced four young opposition activists to imprisonment for hooliganism. Prosecutor Akop Martirosyan delivered his speech. The Prosecutor offered to mitigate the sentence for one of the defendants David Kiramidjyan and to replace imprisonment by a conditional sentence.

Yesterday, on October 10, in Makhachkala, two young men were kidnapped. According to eyewitnesses and human rights defenders, about ten men in masks forced young men into a car and drove them away to some unknown destination.

Today, late at night, the protest action of port workers of the city of Poti (Georgia) was stopped after negotiations with leaders of Company "IPM Poti Terminal". The parties reached an agreement, and the administration considered demands of the workers to be reasonable.

Sergey Khadjikurbanov, former staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of the organization of journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder, asks to terminate the agreement, which was concluded with investigators by Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-Chief of the Secret Department of the Chief Department of the Internal Affairs of Moscow.

Refugees from Abkhazia who occupied the building of a dormitory in Tashkentsky lane of Tbilisi refuse to leave it demanding to put them on the dwelling waiting list. Refugees in the building of a former clinic in Bakinskaya street demand from the officials to determine the persons who really have a right of living in that building, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The incident with a fourteen-year-old girl who went shopping in the evening of October, 10, and was later found dead happened in Kemerovo region, not in Dagestan. This was reported by Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR).

Yesterday, October, 10, residents of Derbent and Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan appealed to the police asking to help them find their relatives.

At the session of the Shirvan Court of Appeal, the staff members of the Udjary District Police Division openly threatened and advised "to behave well and to think about mother and sister." This was reported by convicted human rights defender Talekh Khasmamedov in his appeal to the media, the public and the country's leaders, which was passed through his lawyer.

On October 9, in Yerevan, the court has pronounced the decision on the case of beating of journalist Ruben Grdzelyan. The court found Albert Manrikyan, a son of Mesrop Manrikyan, Prosecutor of the Kotaik Region of Armenia, guilty of the incident and fined him 50,000 drams (120 US dollars). The court also decided not to prosecute the journalist because of the absence of elements of crime in his actions.

On October 9, the Supreme Court of Dagestan continued to consider the criminal case against Ramazan Magomedov, Shuaibgadji Magomedov, and Abdulzhapar Labazangadjiev, residents of Dagestan, suspected of committing in the Kizlyar District a number of crimes as members of an illegal armed formation (IAF). Defence witnesses were invited for questioning.

In the morning of October 9, in Sochi, in the resuscitation ward of the Khosta Hospital No. 3, Kevork Sunguryan died from injuries, inflicted to him on October 2. This was reported by hospital physicians.

Yesterday, on October 9, at the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005, prosecutors read out materials of examinations, conducted on the complaints of members of the "Shalushka" grouping, who claimed being subjected to physical force during detention and preliminary investigation. The materials denied such pressure on the defendants; however, they claimed the opposite at the trial.

Constructors of the Olympic facility form the Research and Industrial Association (RIA) "Mostovik" cordoned off a house, belonging to a Sochi resident, with three-meter monolithic fence with barbed wire and deprived its tenants to leave the house. This was reported by Alexei Kravets, the owner of the house. According to the constructors, they intend to use such a way to achieve eviction of the tenants to be able to demolish the house, which hinder the construction of the Olympic facility, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On October 9, following the protest actions of Armenian residents, Ruben Babayan, Artistic Director of the Yerevan Puppet Theatre, made a decision to cancel the run of the film "Parada", protecting the rights of sexual minorities.

Today, the judge of magistrate precinct No. 369 of the Tver District Court of Moscow deprived Murat Agalarov, a figurant of the incident with shooting at the centre of Moscow during the Dagestani wedding party of September 30, of the weapon license for a term of one year.

The personnel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Dagestan established identity of six victims of flooding as a result of showers in Derbent. The information of the seventh person who perished has not been confirmed as of the moment. The investigators are inspecting the officials' activities during the emergency in the town.