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On October 18, Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and on October 19, Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, will host charitable concerts of participants and laureates of traditional and widely known Valery Grushin All-Russian Festivals of Bards' Songs.

The participants of the hunger strike initiated by the so-called "Afghan veterans" on October 6 in Makhachkala made a decision, after meeting Shamil Zainalov, Chairman of the Government of Dagestan, to suspend their protest action.

While politicians quarrel, the problems of Georgian refugees should be promptly addressed, and cooperation of Russian and Georgian civil societies should be promoted - this is the conclusion reached, according to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, by the participants of the television conference between Moscow and Tbilisi on the topic "Are peoples of Georgia and Russia able to strike hands?" held at the press centre of the RIA "Novosti" on October 16.

The book-album named "South Ossetia - Chronicle of Customized Murder", which was in early October presented to PACE delegates and at the OSCE conference on human dimension in Warsaw, has caused public resonance. On October 16, representatives of public organizations held a press conference on the topic.

A group of regular voters has promulgated preliminary monitoring results of the October 15 presidential election in Azerbaijan. The press release that was disseminated today runs that the report, which was drafted on the basis of inputs from 1500 registered observers, has registered gross violations.

The "Reporters without Borders", an international organization in defence of the freedom of press, has rendered financial aid to the families of three imprisoned journalists: Sakit Zakhidov, Ganimat Zakhidov and Mushfig Guseinov.

The Cheryomushki District Court of Moscow has satisfied the claim of Natalia Prisetskaya against the S7 Airline; on June 30, the claimant was not admitted on board of the Moscow-Vladikavkaz aircraft, since she could move only in a wheelchair and got registered for the flight without an accompanying person.

Two persons have been kidnapped by unidentified armed people in different dwelling settlements of Ingushetia.

Said Amirov, head of the administration of Makhachkala, has addressed the Afghan war veterans, who are on hunger strike now, called them to stop their protest action and said that the city administration is ready to grant land plots for summer cottages to soldiers-internationalists and families of perished servicemen, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The elections of deputies of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic, held last Sunday, October 12, in the territory of Chechnya, with the voter turnover "traditional" for the Republic and exceeding 95 percent, have been recognized valid.

Tina Burdzaliani, Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia, has stated that the decision on provisional measures in defence of the rights of the population of Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia passed by the International Court is just what Georgia had wanted, when filed its claim to the major judicial body of the United Nations. Russia asserts that this Court has no jurisdiction to pass decisions on this claim.

Members of the country's oppositional parties insist that the October 15 election of the head of Azerbaijan was not free, fair, honest or transparent and did not meet the respective international standards.

Magomed Khazbiev, head of the Nationwide Rally of Ingush People and Maksharip Aushev's comrade-in-arms, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Maksharip, present owner of the independent Internet portal "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org"), whose house was searched today in the morning again without due sanction, is under threat of physical liquidation.

The Iraqi government has brought troops into the city of Mosul for defending local Armenians after armed Sunnite extremists attacked them, killing the owner of the shop of musical instruments and injuring his nephew.

Ombudsman for South Ossetia David Sanakoev has refuted the rumours that Georgian schools are closed in the Leninogorsk District of the Republic.

The house of Maksharip Aushev, the present owner of the independent Internet portal "Ingushetia.Ru" (now, "Ingushetia.Org"), is again surrounded. Magomed Khazbiev, Maksharip Aushev's comrade-in-arms and leader of the Nationwide Rally of Ingush People, who had earlier asked not to treat him and Maksharip Aushev as oppositionists, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that this was an intimidating action held by the Ingushetian MIA.

Today, the Moscow District Military Court has begun preliminary hearing of the case on journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder. The General Prosecutor's Office asks to keep the persons accused of her murder in custody for other six months.

Sergey Shamba, head of Abkhazia's MFA, told journalists that Abkhazia is not satisfied with the status offered to it at the international discussion in Geneva.

Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali District Interior Department, has refuted the information about shelling by the Abkhazian party of the Georgian village of Rukhi.

In the course of the voting at presidential election in Azerbaijan serious facts of breaking the law have been fixed. This is the topic of the statement made by the Opposition Cooperation Centre (OCC), whose representatives are observing the course of election in different regions of the country, and delivered to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.