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The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has formed a jury, which will consider the murder case of Magomed Gamzatov, a Deputy of the Kizlyar City Assembly, and his relatives, said a source from the Court.

Solution of the case of threats to Georgian peacemakers and pardon by president of conditional convicts in Georgia; amnesty in Armenia dated to 22 years of independence; start of consideration of the bill on refusal from direct election of the head of North Ossetia; end of judicial investigation and verdict of the Supreme Court on cases of resonant killingsin the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory; stop of hunger strikes of parents of many children and parents of children with disabilities in Volgograd Region, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 30-October 6, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Local media have reported that unidentified persons have attacked and beaten several journalists. It happened at an election campaign rally in support of Jamil Gasanli, the presidential candidate of the National Council Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan, held in the city of Sabirabad.

The Investigating Division for the Khosta District of Sochi is checking the application lodged by Olga Sofronova, a local resident, about fabrication of a case on administrative offence against her by ROVD employees.

The Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, who is held in custody in Moscow, has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to take his case under personal control.

Tonight, in Makhachkala, five men were detained, and one of them wounded. The detainees rendered resistance to policemen, and as a result, one of the law enforcers had to use firearm. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

Yusup Lakaev, a native of Chechnya, has recovered from wound got in a fire fight in Batumi, and he intends to ask for political asylum in Georgia. This was reported by advocate Koba Djabua.

Currently, the North-Caucasian list of missing persons has 7570 names. The data on 4050 of them has been collected, said Alexander Mukomolov, a member of the Human Rights Commission and the chairman of the General Lebed Peacemaking Mission in the course of the roundtable held in Pyatigorsk.

The accusation that builder Mardiros Demerchyan has made a false denunciation of staff members of the police station of Blinovo, a district of Sochi, who allegedly beat him, is not true. This was stated by the defendant and his advocate.

In North Ossetia, the international channel of trafficking in firearms and ammunition from Georgia to the Russian territory has been suppressed. A criminal case was instituted on that fact. This was reported by the FSB.