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In the evening of October, 11, dead body of Yunus Akhilgov, teacher of local madrasa, was found in the stanitsa of Troitskaya, Sunzha district of Ingushetia, a representative of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

A delegation of South Ossetia that took part in the 21st round of Geneva discussions on October, 10 and 11, during the debate expressed its concern about compulsive presence of Georgian policemen along the whole perimeter of South Ossetian borders, Murat Djioev, Plenipotentiary of the President for post-conflict settlement, reported from Geneva.

Georgian corporal MindaiaAbashidze perished in Afghanistan while carrying out a combat mission in process of a peacemaking operation.

Members of power ministries in the settlement of Kayakent, Kayakent district of Dagestan, are taking the congregation away from the mosque and going to carry them to the district police department, an eyewitness of the event reported.

Investigation is clarifying the circumstances of a road accident in the rural settlement of Ekazhevo with the participation of a policeman who knocked down a fourteen-year-old gill, Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Ingushetia informed.

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.