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This morning, the crew of the "Cape Bird" tanker, which was captured on October 8 by pirates off the coast of Nigeria, was released. This was announced by Georgy Karbelashvili, Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The crew included 12 citizens of Georgia and 4 citizens of Russia.

The "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party held regular action in Astrakhan within the pre-election campaign. Participants admitted that they were forced to come to the event. Opposition representatives claimed that the ruling party again used the so-called "administrative resource", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Investigators of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) put Ruslan Rakhaev, Deputy Chief of Police in Cherkessk, in the wanted list. The police officer is suspected of beating a detainee who died from the injuries.

The Kuzminki District Court of Moscow extended to December the detention period of the defendant Yuri Tikhomirov, accused of murdering the anti-fascist Ilya Dzhaparidze.

In Makhachkala, relatives of Rustam Yakhyaev, who was taken away to some unknown destination by armed people, are going for the picket in the central square of the capital of Dagestan. According to the relatives of the kidnapped, Yakhyaev is kept in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and he is accused of murder of Murtazaliev, Deputy Chief of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN). This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

More than one hundred military men from the battalion "Vostok" (East) appealed with an open letter to Dmitry Medvedev, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Russian Federation. They ask the leader of the state to intervene in situation in South Ossetia.

Today, the protest action against crimes in the Armenian army was held near the residence of Armenian President. Vardan Gukasyan, the representative of the Ministry of Defence of the country, advised the protesters to go to the military police; however, parents of dead soldiers refused and claimed Serzh Sargsyan.

The agents of the FSB Department of Dagestan detained a lawyer and an investigator into especially important cases of the investigatory department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the republic for taking a bribe amounting to 1 million roubles. This was reported by the press service of the Dagestani MIA.

Investigatory authorities believe that a member of the Department of Internal Affairs of Buryatia, who was found with a gunshot wound on the north of Chechnya, perished as a result of careless handling of weapons.

On October 13, Aram Melkonyan, a 21-year-old regular soldier, perished in Armenia as a result of an accident.

On October 13, a picket was held in front of the building of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) in Moscow. Protesters demanded to bring to justice the FSIN officers allegedly involved in beating prisoner Zubair Zubairaev.

The former regular soldier Andrei Popov, who claimed that he had been in captivity in Dagestan during 11 years, did not sign a confession of desertion. This was stated by the Saratov Union of Soldiers' Mothers.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, in the combat position of one of military units, stationed on the north section of the border, the regular soldier Yuri Gevorkovich Nersisyan committed suicide when being on combat duty.

The soldier from the Saratov Region Andrei Popov has admitted that he had been consciously evading his military service since 2000. Earlier, he claimed that he escaped from slavery at the brick factory in Dagestan after 11 years of captivity, said a source close to the investigation into the circumstances of the soldier's disappearance.

Today, the Yasamal District Court of Azerbaijan held a hearing on charges of committing acts of hooliganism against the US citizen Amanda Erickson and the citizen of Great Britain Celia Davis.

Today, the head coach of the Russian national team in free wrestling Djambolat Tedeev was deported to Russia, said Tamara Kelekhsaeva, the press secretary of the president of South Ossetia.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov became the leader in the anti-rating of the most criticized governors, compiled by the "Medialogy" Company based on the index of information favour, which is calculated by experts judging from the quality and quantity of citations in the media of characteristics of this or that figure.

At the request of Bishop Vazgen Mirzakhanyan, the leader of the Armenian Eparchy in Georgia, the Armenian activist Vaagn Chakhalyan, who was convicted in Georgia for 10 years in prison and is now kept at the high security prison No. 6 in Rustavi, stopped his earlier declared termless hunger strike. This was reported by the lawyer Stepan Voskanyan, Mr Chakhalyan's advocate, and Robert Tatoyan, the programme coordinator of the Union "Erkir" (Law) at a press conference in Yerevan.

Today, the Essentuki Court has ruled to dismiss the complaint lodged by Igor Kalyapin, the chairman of the Interregional Committee against Torture against inaction of officials of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) at kidnapping.

At the trial in the Tver Court of Moscow considering the riots in Manege Square then burst out in December 2010, the journalists of the editions "Grani.ru" and "Agency of Political News" (APN) gave their evidences as witnesses for the defence.