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The European Court of Human Rights acknowledged Russia guilty of violating clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights and obliged it to pay a compensation to a sum of 30 thousand euro to father of Abdulbek Tashukhajaev, resident of Chechnya, who disappeared in 1996.

Krasnodar region has purchased special containers where marginal parents can leave their newborn babies.

On October 26 in the morning, in the village of Verkhnaya Elshanka of the city of Volgograd, unidentified people attempted to destroy the house belonging to Gypsy family named Goganov. The Gypsy community supported the relatives and appealed to the police.

Relatives of Umalat Bersanov, the disappeared resident of Ingushetia, claim idleness of the law enforcement agencies and, in the near future, they intend to ask for help in the neighbouring republic - Chechnya, where, according to the father of the disappeared man, his son is now.

Olga Filippova Elena Berezina, two residents of the city of Volgograd, and Natalia Sizukhina, a resident of the town of Mikhailovka, who participated in a hunger strike demanding increase of the number of kindergartens, declared their intention to repeat the protest action if the situation would not change for the better.

In the course of the emergency recovery operation, officers of the Azerbaijani Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) found under the ruins of buildings in the Turkish Province of Van bodies of thirteen deceased and ten survivors of the earthquake. This was reported by the Azerbaijani MfE.

The jury of the Moscow City Court pleaded Akhmedpasha Aidaev, a native of Chechnya, guilty to intentional murder of Yuri Volkov, an employee of the VGTRK (All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company), a fan of the "Spartak" FC. Another defendant - Bekkhan Ibragimov - was also pleaded guilty.

A policeman of the city of Volzhsky of Volgograd Region is suspected of murdering a man who had been detained by the policeman for disorderly behaviour.

On October 26, the 31st five-party meeting on preventing and responding to incidents, which was held in Gali, discussed again fate of Merab Kolbaya and Timur Khasaya, residents of Abkhazia, kept in Georgian prisons.

A soldier of the Azerbaijani army shot at his colleague from his service firearm, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence reports.

Four detainees in the case of an explosion at the Moscow Airport "Domodedovo" will remain in custody till January 24, 2012. This exact date will mark a year passed since the terror act committed by a suicide bomber.

Derbent district court of the Republic of Dagestan sentenced three officials to real and conditional terms of custody for misappropriation of 81 million rubles, republican Public prosecutor's office reported.

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.