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Georgian Ministry of Justice has registered a Fund of persons desiring to return to Abkhazia.

In Krasnodar Irina Kolesnikova, the wife of Sergey Kolesnikov, one of the defendants on the case of limited company "Promavtomatika-Invest", declared a hunger strike in front of the office of Krasnodar regional Administration demanding to release her husband from custody.

Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev and Serzh Sargsyan agreed to exchange prisoners of war, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a press conference after a tripartite meeting with the heads of Azerbaijan and Armenia.

On October 26, a supposed leader of a criminal grouping involved in spread of computer viruses was detained in Armenia. He coordinated the work of one of the world's largest bot-nets named "Bredolab".

Northern Caucasus is staggered by explosions; Southern Caucasus is shocked by earthquakes; Kalmykia gets used to new leadership; residents of Southern Russia undergo census, - look these and other events in the review of the week of October 18-24, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Yuri Ivaschenko, a photo journalist from Krasnodar, has turned to the Strasbourg Court (European Court of Human Rights - ECtHR) with a complaint that Russia had broken the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), when Sochi customs officer broke his privacy of correspondence.

On October 26 in Grozny, activists of Chechen youth organizations held a mass rally against terror. Several hundreds of young people marched along the main street of the Chechen capital - Putin Avenue - and on the bank of the Sunzha River burnt down portraits of the leaders of the armed underground: Umarov, Zakaev Vadalov and Gakaev.

Local archaeologists have detected a nicely-preserved burial place of the Copper-Stone Age, or Eneolithic. Excavations in the cave complex "Areni-1" in the Vayots Dzor Region are shared by Armenian archaeologists with their colleagues from the US University of California and the Irish University of Kirk.

In the city of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory) students, who organized a noisy dancing party in front of the city administration, have been expelled from the local higher school, the information-analytical division of city mayoralty reports.

On October 26, Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), hosted the action named "North Caucasus without alimonies" and organized by the Service of Court Marshals of the regions of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District).

A serviceman perished yesterday, October, 26, at about 16:45 local time, as a result of firing upon the stationing of Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army in the North-Eastern (Martakert) direction of contact line between armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

A fougasse exploded during engineering reconnaissance of the territory by the servicemen of a sapper unit of federal forces in the South-East of Chechnya. There have been no victims among the personnel.

Participators of an organized group which included the Head of Trade Department of the Administration of Tuapse district have been detained in Krasnodar region. The detained are suspected of bribe-taking of 71 million rubles for illegal extermination of lands out of state property, Alexander Nazarov, Deputy Chief of the Department of economic security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, reported.