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On September 26, in Khetokh village, Tsuntin District, a local resident Aliev, Ali Magomedovich, born in 1991, was kidnapped from his home, presumably by power agents, and taken away to some unknown place. His relatives appealed to human rights defenders.

Mankuli Lamazov, a resident of Kurukal village and a confidant of Sharafidin Mukhurov, a candidate for a deputy of the district assembly from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), believes that he could be attacked and beaten by supporters of Safidin Mursalov, incumbent head of the Akhtyn District.

Low-income residents of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar region, will receive food ration tickets on bread and milk. This decision has been taken by Vladimir Sinyagovsky, mayor of the city, after the growth of prices on socially-significant products, Press service of Novorossiysk administration reports.

In the suburbs of the town of Derbent, Dagestan, unknown men opened fire at a militia post last night, the republican law enforcement bodies reported. No one was injured as a result of the attack.

Last night in Dagestan there was an attack at a bus with fans of "Spartak" football team which on October, 3, had a game with local "Anzhi" football club and won with a score 1:0.

The participants of the protest action held on October, 3, in Tuapse which numbered from five hundred to one thousand people data dependence established a Committee in protection of Tuapse. The action lasted about two hours and passed off peacefully. The personnel of law enforcement bodies behaved correctly. No one was detained.

The republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports that this morning Khabib Jabrailov, Head of the village of Chirijurt, Kiziljurt district of Dagestan, and Murad Kochkharov, Chairman of the local collective farm, were killed.

The non-sanctioned anti-terrorism rally expected today in the capital of North Ossetia was disrupted by interference of local law enforcers, said one of women-organizers, who preferred to remain anonymous.

The situation in Dagestan is more and more strained with the approaching October 10 elections, experts say. But the elections are just a catalyst, but the situation in the country is heavy without them, they emphasize.

It was stated, at the meeting of the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the leadership of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), headed by Alexander Bastrykin, that under Natalia Estemirova's murder case the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was interrogated. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Kati Marton, a board member of the CPJ.

More than 3000 persons went today to protest rallies against terrorism in four dwelling settlements in Ingushetia.

Today Moscow has hosted a picket in memory of the victims of terror acts committed on September 9 in Vladikavkaz. The participants of the event have expressed their hope that the situation in North Ossetia would not turn into an ethnic conflict.

The Eighth International "High Fest" Festival was launched on October 1 in Armenia with participation 33 theatrical groups from 22 countries.

In the course of the special operation, the militants, who had barricaded in an apartment of a high-rise building in Engels Street in Makhachkala, wounded two young men, who tried to run across the yard, when residents were evacuated.

In 2011-2013, the EU will grant 30 million euros to Georgia in support of state institutions engaged in reforms.

The city hosted a protest rally in defence of the rights of shareholders, against the tyranny of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies and ignorance by state-owned bodies of citizens' legitimate rights.

At their sitting, the MPs voted 125:4 for the second reading of the new Constitution draft. The bill has no words that President is the head of the state.

In the evening on September 30, a cross was installed on the dome of the Armenian Church of Surb Khach located on Akhtamar Island (Turkey). All the works took several hours.

Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of Special-Risk Rescue Operations of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Russia continue de-mining agricultural lands in the Grozny District of Chechnya. Since the start of their work, they have cleared 15 hectares of mines, shells and various ordnances and neutralized 67 explosive items.

This school year, remote learning of children-invalids within the priority national project "Education" will be available not only for the residents of the regional capital. According to Yuri Komarov, Director of the Rostov sanatorium-boarding school No. 28, where the E-Learning Centre is located, now 150 children from 12 municipalities of the region will start studying there.