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Today, the Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners and Persecuted Persons of Armenia has addressed its open letter to Presidents of Russia, USA and France, where it accuses the leaders of these countries of an immoral deal with the authorities of Armenia.

On the International day of the Black Sea to be marked on October 31, a demonstration is planned in Novorossisk under the slogan "Nuclear-free status - to the Black Sea!" As explained by Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights, who has submitted an application on the action to the Mayoralty, such status means a ban not only on nuclear weapon, but also on transportation of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) across the sea waters.

Tamerlan Dzudtsov, Minister of Culture of South Ossetia, said that in 2010 the republic will start making its own feature films.

On October 16, an operation under the conventional title "Automobile" started in the republic. Law enforcers stop cars with excessive glass tinting.

On October 16, Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation, said that the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" will be solved.

Badri Afanasiev, producer of the Georgian TV Channel "Imedi", has applied to Russia for political asylum.

Today, the operative staff of the FSB in Ingushetia has made a decision to lift the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced in the morning on October 15 in the territory of the Sunzha District of the republic.

The National Assembly (NA) of Karachai-Circassia has for the fourth time rejected the candidature of Vyacheslav Derev, who was nominated by leaders of the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party to the position of representative of the NA at the Russian Council of Federation.

The report of the commission of the European Union (EU), where President of Georgia was found guilty of unleashing the war in South Ossetia, allows initiating the procedure of impeaching President Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by Carlo Kopaliani, member of the Republican Party and an MP from the oppositional faction "Strong Georgia", at a press conference on October 16.

The absence of solutions to the issues of transit between Azerbaijan and Turkey compels Baku to look for new markets for Azerbaijani gas, as President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev said at the sitting of his government.

Employees of the Volgograd Centre for Power Efficiency plan to build and test a biogas installation on the basis of the breeding farm located in the Volgograd Region for converting the animals' manure into useful energy.

After replacement of the Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, the efforts of the local prosecutor's office against five journalists of the edition "Chernovik", accused of excitation of national, racial or religious hostility, began to come to naught; it means that the urgency of the "order" to shut down the edition has been exhausted. This was stated by Biyakai Magomedov, the lawyer of the "Chernovik".

The prosecutor's office of the Industrial Municipal District of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, has opened an administrative case against the "Electrozinc" factory in the context of the latter's emissions of sulphur dioxide to the atmosphere on October 5; also a presentation was passed on violation of ecological legislation.

Today, the Nasimin District Court of Baku, chaired by Ikram Shirinov, continued considering the claim lodged by the widow of Novruzali Mamedov, former head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) against the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan, Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15.

All the materials of the case concerning Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under the article of slander have been transferred to the Moscow prosecutor's office. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, who had submitted an application demanding to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov.

On Monday, October 19, members of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus, will file their application to the Adler District Court; the ecologists protest against their detention by frontier guards of the FSB, when they were surveying the construction of Olympic object - the combined railway and motor road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana in Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.

In Rostov-on-Don, nine school pupils were hospitalized after flu vaccination, some more kids addressed the local polyclinic after inoculation.

According to the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the explosion that happened today in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, nobody suffered. Earlier it was reported that several persons had suffered.

Magomed Dibirov, chairman of the central electoral commission (CEC) of Dagestan, said today that the elections in Derbent and other municipal formations of the republic have been recognized valid, and no violations have been registered.

The FSB has reported that is has solved the terror acts committed in 1999 in "Intourist" Hotel and "Okhotny Ryad" Shopping Centre. According to the investigation, the crimes had been ordered by Shamil Basaev. Now, the Moscow City Court holds a trial of the suspects of these crimes.