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On November, 2, Seiran Oganyan, Minister of Defense of Armenia, had a meeting with the parents of the servicemen, fallen soldiers-liberators and reserve officers and promised the parents of fallen servicemen the cases of whose death were under investigation by law enforcement bodies that all those guilty of their death would be punished as strictly as the law permits.

The first criminal case, after the authorities introduced a ban on bride abduction, has been initiated in Chechnya on the fact of abducting a woman with the aim to force her into marriage. However, the case is unusual: a man abducted his ex-wife.

A resident of the Baksan District, Kabardino-Balkaria, has suffered from the explosion, triggered today, when a militia car was moving along the federal highway in the Elbrus District.

On November 25, the session of the Khamovniki Magistrate Court in Moscow, which considers the criminal lawsuit of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will hear the defence and so-called "neutral" witnesses, said Genry Reznik, the defendant's advocate.

A trial on the appeal of Usman Garisov, resident of Dagestan who on June, 19, was sentenced by Kusar district court to four years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for accusation of contraband and use of drugs, was accomplished in the Appellate Court of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of judge Mubariz Zeinalov.

The first case in Chechnya after introduction of an official ban on bride abduction with the aim to force a girl into marriage may remain without consequences for the kidnappers. It became clear that the 14-year-old schoolgirl figuring in the case herself had asked her husband to abduct her, as reported by a source from the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In the evening of November, 1, some unidentified people killed the Imam of one of the mosques in the town of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, a representative of the municipal law enforcement bodies reported.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory has sent to the court the criminal case against the teachers accused of the death of six pupils during bathing this summer in the Yeysk Spit, the Office has reported.

Today the Moscow municipal court prolonged the term of arrest for 3,5 months, till February, 2011, for Eugenia Khasis, figurant of the case of murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova and the defendant on the same case Nikita Tikhonov.

Last night some unknown people set fire to three Christian churches in Karachai-Circassia. The Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported that two churches had caught fire in the town of Karachayevsk and the third one in stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya.

Darejan Kokhtashvili and Babutse Gordadze, two women natives of Georgia, may be sentenced to death penalty if they are acknowledged guilty of contraband of 10 kilogram of drugs. The trial is appointed for November, 2.

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Bataisk, Rostov Region, has sent to the court the criminal case initiated against the builder Larissa Tarasenkova, accused of embezzlement of equity holders' money in the sum of more than 30 million roubles.

Today a powerful explosive device was neutralized by Chechen law enforcers in the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny. The republic's MIA asserts that the location of the hideout with a fougasse was shown by a local resident detained on suspicion of helping militants.

Vyacheslav Kireev, advocate of Dmitri Ufimtsev, convicted member of the neo-Nazi grouping called "White Wolves", was pleased that his client was not sentenced to life-long imprisonment and believes that the verdict was passed in line with the law.

On October 28, an explosion of a land mine in the foothill Urus-Martan District of Chechnya killed a soldier from Interior Troops of the Russian MIA; another one was seriously wounded.