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The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe Thomas Hammarberg has expressed his concern over the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. In his report on the human rights situation in Azerbaijan during the past year, the Commissioner has noted with regret that most of his earlier recommendations were neglected. The authorities of the country, in their turn, find the report biased.

In Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, nine persons, who suffered because of the mass HIV-infection of children in late 1988, have been officially recognized as victims.

The leaders and supporters of the Georgian Labour Party have held a protest action in front of Tbilisi Mayoralty demanding to cancel the new garbage collection tariff, which is calculated based on the amount of consumed electricity.

On September 28, units of the Armenian army two times shelled the Azerbaijani positions in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, said the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The riot police (OMON) fighters have squeezed the crowd of supporters of one of the presidential candidates Djambolat Tedeev out and away from the building, where the government sits. This was stated by Vyacheslav Sedov, the head of the press service of the president and government of South Ossetia.

In the Kuschevskaya District, Krasnodar Territory, two persons have been detained within the criminal investigation into the use of slave labour at the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Artex-Agro", which was headed by the mother of Sergey Tsapok, the alleged participant in the massacre committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, the press service of the Investigatory Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On September 29, a sitting of the City Assembly of Derbent (Dagestan) turned into a scuffle between a Mayor's security and a deputy. The cause of the conflict was in the attempt of the security to remove media workers out of the hall, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magomed Khanmagomedov, a journalist of the "Chernovik" newspaper.

The registered presidential candidate of South Ossetia Alan Kochiev, who is in custody, has gone on a hunger strike. This was reported by the human rights activist Inara Gabaraeva.

The world-famous singer Shakira has refuted the information that she will perform on October 5 in the Chechen capital on celebrations of the City Day.

About a thousand protesters continue their action under the rain in Freedom Square. The opposition has set up a tent camp, where Levon Ter-Petrosyan, ex-president of Armenia and the leader of the ANC (Armenian National Congress) is going to stay over the night.

At the Sabail District Court in Baku, three out of four defendants, arrested for taking part in the meeting on 2 April, were given the floor for their last plea.

A spontaneous emission of petroleum products into the Tuapse river happened at one of the enterprises of "Rosneft" in the town, activists of "Environmental Watch on North Caucasus" report.

Police personnel in Nalchik detained a locomotive driver from whom four trotyl blocks of a total weight of 800 gram and seven electrical detonators were confiscated, a representative of Press service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Kabardino-Balkaria reported.

Head of Kirovsky district of Volgograd Sergey Kapanadze was detained by the police within the framework of investigating a case of swindle in building a municipal physical training complex (PTC). Kapanadze is suspected of bribetaking and abuse of authority, Press service of Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Volgograd region reported.

According to the investigators, the former chief physician of the Volgograd Regional Clinical Hospital of War Veterans inflicted a loss on the state in the amount of 1.2 million roubles.

After receiving a complaint through Twitter, Yuri Trutnev, the head of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MNRE) of the Russian Federation, has instructed the "Rosprirodnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising the Nature) to identify and eliminate ecological violations in one of Sochi districts.

Investigators believe that one of the main versions of the car explosion near the village of Tashkapur, which occurred on Wednesday afternoon, was an attempt on Magomed Magomedov, the head of Gergebil District of Dagestan. This was reported by the spokesman of the Republic's department of the ICRF.

Alexander Oldak, the head of the Chief Department (CD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Stavropol Territory, is suspected of committing a crime in the period when he headed the MIA's CD for the Altai Territory. This was reported on September 28 by Vladimir Markin, Spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation (ICRF).

At the court session, where the riots in Manege Square in Moscow in 2011 are considered, the witness Kambikov confirmed that defendant Berezyuk hit a policeman; however, he failed to identify the organizers of the riots among the defendants. Other victims also failed to identify the defendants.

Malik Appaev, a resident of the town of Tyrnyauz of Elbrus District of Kabardino-Balkaria, claims illegal detention and torture by power agents, who demanded that he pleaded guilty to illegal possession of military grenade.