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The Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office of Karelia has finished the investigation of criminal cases opened against high-ranking employees of militia accused of negligence in connection with disorders in Kondopoga in September 2006.

Today, the Maikop City Court has satisfied the claim of Valery Brinikh, an ecologist from Adygea, who believes that the zoning of the territory of the Sochi National Park as approved by the Order of the Federal Service for Supervision over Environmental Management of August 27, 2006, is illegal.

The Azerbaijani Committee Against Torture has launched monitoring of investigatory isolation facilities and temporary custody cells of police units of cities and districts of the Republic.

On October 20 journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov) announced a termless hunger strike in protest against his returning for further custody to Colony No. 14.

The advocates of the victims of the terror act in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre demand to initiate criminal cases on falsification against a number of officials in connection with presentation to the Strasbourg Court of the memorandum dated to the events that happened five years ago.

In the village of Bazorkino (Chermen) of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia local residents-Ingushes have been assassinated.

During his visit to Azerbaijan, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut, Secretary General of the OSCE, has called the leaders of the Republic to release the journalists who are kept in prisons.

Under the Project "Journalism and Peacemaking," implemented with support of the International Alert organization, at the editorial board of the Shushi newspaper "Shushi" a discussion was held on the topic "Does the peacemaking journalism exists and how much Karabakh media needs it?"

A number of public journalists' organizations have disseminated a statement, expressing their concern with the situation observed currently in the mass media of Armenia.

The Prosecutor's Office has indicted Khasan Didigov, a native of Chechnya and a suspect of undermining the "Neva-Express" train.

Despite the promises given to residents of the microdistrict located in Shamil Avenue in Makhachkala who yesterday blocked the main transport route of the capital in protest against cutting off electricity supply, their houses are still without electricity.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Adygea has presented charges to the student from the city of Maikop, who had placed in the Internet a video record showing an execution of the natives of Dagestan and Tajikistan.

On October 17, the Leninskiy Court of North Ossetia made a conclusion about the presence of attributes of a crime in the actions of advocate Irina Kodzaeva, who had earlier accused the inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office of beating her.

Starting from 2004, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has registered over 700 cases of trafficking (trading in people). Only in the period from 2004 to 2006, 689 criminal cases of this sort were considered.

Today, a group of Russian human rights activists, Sergey Kovalyov and Valery Borschov, co-chairmen of the human rights fraction of the "Yabloko" Party, and Sharip Tsuruev, chairman of the regional branch of "Yabloko," among them, took part in the roundtable organized in Makhachkala by Farid Babaev, head of the Dagestan Regional Association of the "Yabloko" Party.