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Many residents of Adygea note that the visa-free entry to Georgia for residents of Northern Caucasus is fine and convenient, but the fact that it exists for only a few regions makes, in their opinion, makes such a gesture incomplete.

Over eighty documentaries, feature and animated films were presented to the 5th International Film Festival "Cinema without Barriers", held in the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.

Today, Armenia hosted the opening ceremony of the world's longest reversible ropeway "Tatev Wings".

On that day the republic will cancel all festivities and entertainment television programmes in connection with the mourning ceremonies on the 40th day after the attack near the central marketplace in Vladikavkaz.

The youth opposition movement "November 7" has established a registration centre for the victims of the violent dispersal of the opposition rally in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007, and calls those who suffered at those events to get registered in the context of prepared complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

On October 15, Yazidis held their rally near the presidential residence because of the decision of the Ministry of Education of Armenia to publish textbooks in the Kurdish language and allocate lessons for studying Kurdish in schools, which, according to the protesters, infringes the rights of the Yazidis as a national minority.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld its previous verdict on immediate release of Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev from prison.

Within the series of activities aimed to educate the election subjects, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has published the "Memo on Policemen's Participation in Elections to National Assembly". The opposition doubts of its usefulness.

The authorities of South Ossetian have declared their readiness to return, under supervision of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the Georgians, who left the Leningor Region (South Ossetia) during the war in August 2008 and now live in Georgia, to their former homes.

On October 12, in the course of exercises in one of tank military units of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), a soldier was lost.

In the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan a soldier wounded another one and fled with firearms after a quarrel with some other soldiers, said today a source from local law enforcement bodies said today.

Konstantin Gamsakhurdia, an MP and son of the first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has announced his decision to participate in the 2013 upcoming presidential election.

The Centre of Human Rights plans to make a formal appeal to the Government of Georgia with a demand to withdraw Georgian troops from the international peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. This was reported by Ucha Nanuashvili, head of this NGO. According to his story, many politicians say in private conversations that they do not approve Georgian citizens' fighting outside their homeland, although they do not express their views in public.

Since September 30, lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was attacked and beaten by militiamen in the city of Khasavyurt, is under recognizance not to leave. The investigator who is running the case initiated under the claim of one of the militiamen, involved in the incident, believes that the lawyer can escape or hamper the preliminary investigation.

Currently, special fighters of the FSB and MIA of Dagestan are conducting special actions; there is a skirmish underway. There is information about one casualty, said the spokesman of the National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) of the Russian Federation.

The most well-known association of Moscow Spartak fans "Fratria" decided to break all relations with all official football organizations in Russia. One of the main reasons was the refusal of the Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) to disqualify the stadium in Makhachkala.

Meskhetin migrants from Gori district of Georgia are going to submit President Mikhail Saakashvili a request to solve the problem of legalizing their status.

On October, 14, an action of protest against prosecution of Buryat journalists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Stetsyura accused of extremism for distribution of leaflets about Stalin's deportation of the Ingush and Chechen peoples was held in Moscow, in Chistoprudny boulevard.

Such human rights activists an Natalya Estemirova are the pride of Russia, this is the opinion of Sergey Komkov, President of the All-Russian Fund of education who on October, 14, was interrogated in court on the action of Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya, against Oleg Orlov, Head of "Memorial" Human Rights center. Another witness, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman of Checnya, said that Estemirova's role in human rights defense had been much exaggerated.

Aiming to get the body of Manvel Saribekyan, an Armenian captive who was killed in Azerbaijan, his relatives appealed to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations. In their letter they state that Azerbaijan is violating the armistice and captures Armenian civilians; Manvel Saribekyan, a villager from Ttudzhur, was one of them.