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In Dagestan, Murat Guliev, the head of the housing building cooperative (HBC) "Daman", is suspected of fraud and document forgery. According to investigators, Murat Guliev raised from real estate investors more than seven million roubles for the construction of an apartment building and disappeared.

In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, military men demanded that picketers from the village of Tsatanikh should unblock the highway. This was reported by the participants of the protest actions, whose number had been increased.

Investigators are carrying out inquiry on the circumstances of a road accident in the town of Volzhsky with the participation of a district police officer who knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the crime, Natalia Kunitskaya, representative of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry in Volgograd region, reported.

According to a verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Armenia must pay a compensation of 31 thousand euros to oppositional activist Grigor Virabyan for torture he underwent from the police and violation of his right of fair trial.

Today, the victims in the case on the journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder her children Ilya Politkovsky and Vera Politkovskaya filed a motion to cancel the agreement with investigators, concluded by Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-Chief of the Secret Department of the Chief Department of the Internal Affairs of Moscow.

The body of a policeman who disappeared in the evening of October, 7, was found in the suburbs of Buinaksk today, a representative on Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Dagestan reported.

On October 7, a picket took place in the Novopushkinsky Park of Moscow in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who shot dead in 2006 at entrance to her house. The picket was attended by about 100 persons. Since no loudspeakers are allowed at pickets, the protesters mainly spoke to each other.

Two persons perished as a result of a grenade explosion in the settlement of Kochubeeskoye, Stavropol region, a source in regional law enforcement bodies reported.

A resident of Akushinski district of Dagestan appealed to the police reporting his daughter's obscure disappearance.

Yesterday, October, 7, a conflict occurred in a merchandise market of Krasnodar as a result of which firearms were used. One person was killed and two more got wounded.

Workers of the glass factory in the city of Dagestanskie Ogni did not receive wages for three months. In October, the enterprise began to pay wages for July. This was reported by workers of the factory.

The ratio of parliamentary seats between the coalition "Georgian Dream" and the "United National Movement" Party will be 83:67. This preliminary information on distribution of parliamentary seats was reported on October 6 by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia.

A 3-year-old son of a resident of Moscow was slightly injured, allegedly as a result of shooting, committed by guests of the wedding party of Dagestani natives in the centre of the capital. This was reported by a representative of the press service of the Chief Department of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

Khati Radjabova, a resident of the village of Bondarenovka of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, appealed to the Dagestani Regional Public Organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) with a request to assist in the search for the wife of her son and her baby, whose fate is unknown to her since September 23. The woman suspects that the wife of her son may be kept at one of the police stations in Makhachkala.

The Commission of Ingush government on determination of the border with the Chechen Republic prepared a draft agreement and description of the border. This was reported by Mukharbek Didigov, Speaker of the Republic's Parliament and Chairman of the Commission.

Vardan Oskanyan, the founder of the "Civilitas" Foundation, MP from the faction "Prosperous Armenia", ex-Foreign Minister of Armenia, was summoned for interrogation. This was reported by Sona Truzyan, Press Secretary of the General Prosecution's Office (GPO) of Armenia.

Today, a climber from Poland fell from one of the mountains in Kabardino-Balkaria and died.

On October 5, the town of Shushi in Nagorno-Karabakh hosted official opening of the Festival of Contemporary Art "Shushi Art Project" and the exhibition of works, created by participants within the event.

Today, at 10:00-11:00 a.m., in Sochi, Evgeny Zakharov, a member of the public movement for the protection of green areas of the city, held a picket in the square near the city administration. The activist demanded to stop cutting down trees in the park area, located in front of the building of Mayoralty.

Families of policemen, who were killed in the militants' attack on Nalchik, committed on October 13, 2005, will receive financial aid in the amount of 10,000 roubles.