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Parliamentary elections in Georgia, won by Ivanishvili's oppositional bloc; opening in Dagestan of Gimry Tunnel after years of reconstruction; killing of ex-judge and suicide of the kidnapper of the girl in Rostov-on-Don; pickets of Ingushetia residents in Moscow; clashes of protesting believers with police and opposition's demand to disband the parliament in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 1-7, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Dagestan, Murat Guliev, the head of the housing building cooperative (HBC) "Daman", is suspected of fraud and document forgery. According to investigators, Murat Guliev raised from real estate investors more than seven million roubles for the construction of an apartment building and disappeared.

Investigators are carrying out inquiry on the circumstances of a road accident in the town of Volzhsky with the participation of a district police officer who knocked down a pedestrian and escaped from the scene of the crime, Natalia Kunitskaya, representative of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry in Volgograd region, reported.

According to a verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Armenia must pay a compensation of 31 thousand euros to oppositional activist Grigor Virabyan for torture he underwent from the police and violation of his right of fair trial.

Today, the victims in the case on the journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder her children Ilya Politkovsky and Vera Politkovskaya filed a motion to cancel the agreement with investigators, concluded by Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-Chief of the Secret Department of the Chief Department of the Internal Affairs of Moscow.

The body of a policeman who disappeared in the evening of October, 7, was found in the suburbs of Buinaksk today, a representative on Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) in Dagestan reported.

Two persons perished as a result of a grenade explosion in the settlement of Kochubeeskoye, Stavropol region, a source in regional law enforcement bodies reported.

A resident of Akushinski district of Dagestan appealed to the police reporting his daughter's obscure disappearance.

Yesterday, October, 7, a conflict occurred in a merchandise market of Krasnodar as a result of which firearms were used. One person was killed and two more got wounded.

A 3-year-old son of a resident of Moscow was slightly injured, allegedly as a result of shooting, committed by guests of the wedding party of Dagestani natives in the centre of the capital. This was reported by a representative of the press service of the Chief Department of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

On October 3, the Guba District Court of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Fizuli Panakhov, started court hearings on merits on the case of the third group of the defendants, accused of the riots in the city of Guba, occurred on March 1. The case involves seven defendants.

The Tver District Court of Moscow upheld the ruling of the magistrate court precinct on the arrest of Murat Agalarov, a participant of shooting during the Dagestani wedding party in the centre of the capital. This was reported by the press service of the Court.

Today, four men in camouflage attacked a vehicle of cash collectors in the Botlikh District and stole 13.5 million roubles, intended for the payment of pensions. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

In the third quarter of this year, at least 383 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 242 persons were killed, and at least 141 were wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from open sources.

The court of general jurisdiction of Avan and Nor-Nork communities of Yerevan sentenced Lieutenant colonel Vardan Samvelyan detained for suspicion of an attempt of explosion of "Arsnakar" restaurant to four month of custody, Press Service of the court informed.