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Journalist Einullah Fatullaev, who is kept in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), and his colleagues who support him at large have stopped their joint hunger strike, because the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan had fixed the date of the plenary session on Fatullaev's case.

Law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested 20 persons on suspicion of spying in favour of Russia.

Nikita Tikhonov, who is accused of resonant murders, has confessed of trading in arms but still rejects the main charges - of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova.

A meeting of memory was held on October, 28, the day of the 68-th anniversary of the beginning of mass prisoner transfer of peaceful residents of Stalingrad (now bearing the name of Volgorgad) to the fascist concentration camps, near a small memorial at the place of a former camp of compulsory confinement No 205 in the territory of the settlement of Gorkovsky, Volgograd region.

Telman Mustafayev, a nineteen-year-old soldier of Azerbaijani army, was killed on October, 28, as a result of violation of cease-fire regime in the zone of Karabakh confrontation. Azerbaijani party blames the Armenian one for that.

Relatives of two residents of Ingushetia worry about absence of information about whereabouts of their relatives, who disappeared in Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh Region on October 27. This is stated in the message of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that arrived to the office of the "Caucasian Knot".

The Buryat journalists Tatiana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkina, who had written about the deportation of Chechens and Ingushes and later were accused of extremism, rejected their appointed advocates and decided to self-defend at the trial, According to Nadir Fatov, a rights defender from Moscow, the case against the journalists is an experiment, in which the FSB refers any criticism of the authorities to Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred against a social group).

At the disposition of Russian frontier troops in Yerevan, two guards from Russia were found dead. Earlier, the press service of the Armenian Police had mistakenly treated them as contract servicemen from the Russian military base stationed in Armenia.

The data about the casualties among power agents during the attack of three suicide bombers on the parliament building in Grozny on October 19 were significantly understated, said a source from local law enforcement bodies. According to his version, there were more than 40 wounded and 20 lost law enforcers.

Law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic refute the data presented yesterday by Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, about the activities of illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the region. According to the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), not a single terror act was committed in the first nine months of this year in the territory of the republic.

Vasily Krivets, 22, leader of the criminal grouping named "Belye Volki" (White Wolves), found guilty of 15 ethnically motivated murders on ethnic grounds, was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to life imprisonment. The second figurant of the case - Dmitri Ufimtsev, who confessed of five murders, was sentenced to 22 years of high security colony.