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Yevgeny Konovalov, a Krasnodar human rights activist and a member of the public movement "All people are equal before the law", was hospitalized to the intensive care unit of the territorial clinical hospital after a severe beating.

In the evening on October 11, in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, as a result of shelling a VAZ-21099 car, a policeman was killed.

Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the first instance court in relation to Badri Bitsadze, ex-head of the frontier Police of Georgia, convicted in absentia for resisting the police, said his advocate Levan Samushiya.

The Presnya District Court of Moscow has left the four times world champion in ultimate fighting from Dagestan Rasul Mirzaev suspected of beating the student of Ivan Agafonov, 19, to death, in custody, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The policeman who wounded, in early October, three persons in the city of Yessentuki, Stavropol Territory, is in hospital and was not dismissed from the police, said Svetlana Kharchenko, the assistant of the head of the Investigatory Department for the Territory of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation). According to her story, local law enforcement bodies possess evidences that the policeman used his forearms as forced self-defence.

As agreed on October 10 by Seiran Oganyan, Minister of Defence, and Karen Andreasyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, with the aim to reduce the criminality level in the Armed Forces of Armenia, a working group will be set up.

In Azerbaijan, the investigation is over into the pressure on Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspaper "Aina-Zerkalo" and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), and his family. The materials of the investigation have been sent to the Binagadi District Prosecutor's Office for initiating a criminal case.

One person perished and two got wounded as a result of firing at three local residents by unknown people in Makhachkala.

On October, 10, a twenty-four-years-old resident of Samara region Vitaly Vasin was detained in Moscow for suspicion of participation in mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square in December, 2010. This was reported by official representative of Committee of Inquiry of Russia Vladimir Markin. Earlier, six persons were detained in connection with this case.

Anti-corruption rally in the capital of Dagestan, ending with violent dispersal and mass detentions; sentence to former deputy of Volgograd Regional Duma, accused of paedophilia; fifth anniversary of murder in Moscow of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, and failed indictment; autumn session of the PACE, which passed a resolution calling not to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and a declaration of 32 PACE delegates on recognition of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 3-9, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On October 9 in Dagestan, the police detained a 20-year-old resident of Kaspiisk, who is suspected of having called the police on duty unit and reported about an explosive device, allegedly planted in one of the trading houses located in I. Kazak Street of Makhachkala, the press service of the local MIA has reported.

On October 8, the Sabail District Court of Baku held a session on the case of theologian Abgyul Suleimanov. The court decided to extend the investigatory until early 2012.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation), the militants who killed the spouses - the employees of the Baksan Neutrino Observatory of the Institute for Nuclear Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, made at least 20 shots at the casualties.

Today, the Khasavyurt City Court is considered a civil lawsuit lodged by Nasurdin Rasulov, a human rights defender from Khasavyurt and the lawyer of the public organization named "Fighter for Justice" on protection of his honour and dignity.