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The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia has no information about any accusations presented to Ibragim Evloev, head of the guard of the Minister of Internal Affairs, in connection with the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of an oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org"), as reported by a spokesman of the MIA's press service.

A picket in memory of Anna Politkovskaya will take place today in St-Petersburg, despite the prohibition of city authorities, assert the organizers of the action - members of the Petersburg branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has rejected the petition of the prosecution asking to change the territorial jurisdiction of the criminal case on the events on October 13, 2005. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by advocate Elizabeth Shak.

In the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, unidentified persons have shelled the car with Anzor Zyazikov, legal adviser of the factory of antenna-mast structures, and his passenger. Mr Zyazikov did not suffer, but the passenger was shot dead.

Petros Garibyan, leading inspector in the case, senior inspector for especially important cases of the Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, has stated that from two to four persons are suspected as customers of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

The Moscow Human Rights Bureau has disseminated a report according to which this year xenophobia has killed 108 persons, natives from the Caucasus among them.

The Chief Administration of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Public Prosecutor's Office for the Southern Federal District has come to conclusion that the reason of the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru" (now "Ingushetia.Org") was an unintentional shot from a pistol made by one of the militiamen who escorted Evloev.

From the beginning of 2008, in South Ossetia, seven terror acts were committed, for which automobiles brought in from territory of Georgia were used. Irina Gagloeva, head of the Committee for Information and Press of South Ossetia, told about it.

On October 3, the Nariman Court of Baku accepted to proceedings the claim of Gammet Suleimanov, Imam of "Abu-Bekr" Mosque, lodged against the Police Department of the Nariman District of the capital of Azerbaijan.

Today in the morning, a counterterrorist operation was announced in Ingushetia, in the Gamursiev Municipal District of the city of Nazran. The militia has stated that they looked for militants.

On October 3, as a result of a powerful explosion in Tskhinvali, Colonel Ivan Petrik, chief of the united staff of peacekeeping forces in the conflict zone, was lost. He was killed by splinters in his study; the car exploded right under his window.

Over forty cases against corruption have been initiated in Kabardino-Balkaria within the recent six months. However, the war on corruption is still much smaller than the spread of the phenomenon; the struggle needs essential activation.

Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria detained on September 24 in Stavropol Territory under suspicion of participating in attack on Republic's power agencies are exposed to beatings. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by advocate Elena Bairamkulova, who is defending one of the detainees - Rustam Karanashev, born in 1982, a resident of Stary Cherek village, Urvan District.

Magomed Khamkhoev, a native of Ingushetia, rejects any "Beslan trace" in his kidnapping and only marks that his kidnappers spoke Ossetian and Russian.

The Council of Europe is dissatisfied with low efficiency of Russia's internal investigation of the incidents, which make the grounds for filing complaints by residents of the Chechen Republic to the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.