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Investigative Department of CIR in Kabardino-Balkaria directed a notification to Religious Board of Moslems of the republic demanding to take measures in order to disallow registration of Moslem marriages in cases if one of the spouses is underage. According to the law, such marriages are considered crimes.

Mourning ceremonies in memory of the victims of terror in the Theatre Center in Dubrovka which happened nine years ago are going on in Moscow today.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has sent questions to the Russian government on the case of the journalist and photo correspondent Yuri Ivaschenko, whose correspondence in 2009 was read and copied by Russian customs officers on his return from Abkhazia.

In Azerbaijan, Idrak Abbasov, a journalist from the newspaper "Aina-Zerkalo" and a member of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), claims that there are no active investigatory measures take in relation to the pressure on him and his family members, after the case was transferred to the Binagadi District Prosecutor's Office. Even the local municipality is not aware about the owner of the land, where the house belonging to the Abbasov family destructed by the unidentified people is located.

Einullah Fatullaev, Azerbaijani journalist and former political prisoner, received invitation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) to visit New York to attend the International Award "Freedom of the Press".

Today, two years since the murder of Maksharip Aushev, the Ingush human rights activist, passed. So far, the investigation failed to find the assassinators.

Today, at the session of the Moscow City Court on the case on mass brawl in Moscow in 2010, during forensic debates, the prosecutor demanded to sentence Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, to 23 years of imprisonment for the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a football fan. Besides, the court listened to final speeches of the defendants.

The Oktiabrskiy District Court of Stavropol has ordered the management of the International Airport "Stavropol" to equip the airport terminal with necessary equipment for people with disabilities.

The Karabulak Court of Ingushetia held a court session on the case against Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, ex-officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, accused of torturing detainees, and questioned the victim Adam Khamkhoev.

Today, Zulaikha Murtazalieva, a resident of the city of Buinaksk, appealed to the organization of the "Human Rights Protection" and to the Prosecutor of Dagestan, asking to help find her brother Gasan Murtazaliev, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, who was put on the list of missing persons on October 22.

Works on cleaning ground areas for development have started in the territory of Sochi National Park. Ecologists consider these actions illicit.

Soldier of Inner Troops, a nineteen-years-old Elhan Sharifhan oglu Aliev, got wounded during manoeuvres in a weapons training center in the settlement of Mushfig, Azerbaijan.

The German TV channel MDR will transfer the fee of the dance company received for their performance in Grozny to the organization "Reporters Without Borders". The management of the channel fears that the concert will injure the reputation of MDR.

On the eve of a discussion of building a hydro-power station on Trchkan that will be held on October, 26, defenders of the greatest waterfall in Armenia held a sit-in near it.

Head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov demanded from members of power ministries of the region to provide information on the extent of guilt of every gunman detained or killed in Ingushetia.

Valery Levin, an employee of the Moscow office of the Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, was prohibited - by Georgian law enforcement bodies - to leave Georgia. He was detained late on October 22 and released a couple of hours later.

The Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has promised, as stated by the republic's Operations Staff, to set up all the conditions for the members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), who decide to voluntarily give up their illegal activities and return to normal life.

Among the problems reported by Ingush human rights activists to Hans Dahlgren, the Swedish Human Rights Envoy, during their meeting in Nazran, Ingushetia, were the situation of refugees, appeals of republic's citizens to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), and illegal actions of law enforcers.

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.