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Unidentified people in the town of Baksan fired upon "Tamara" cafe located in the ground floor of a domestic building. Window glasses have been knocked out but no one got injured. A source in law enforcement bodies shared this news with a reporter of "Caucasian Knot".

Two local residents were wounded, when an attempt was undertaken to blow up a militia car.

Today, heavy rain in the Krasnodar Territory caused overflowing of mountain rivers and led to flooding of 20 settlements. As a result of the flood eleven persons were lost, said Boris Frolov, deputy head of the investigatory division of the city of Tuapse.

Tanzila Mutsolgova, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, said that her earlier kidnapped son Ibrahim Tochiev, now under investigation, is exposed to pressure and deprivation of rights at the Nazran Interior Division for Ingushetia of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). She herself told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

At the aviation base of Military Unit No. 40383, located near the "Bolshoe Savino" Airport, 120 recruits from Northern Caucasus refused to obey their commanders. In total, 500 soldiers and sergeants take their service there.

On October 15, in Yerevan, in front of the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts Matenadaran a rally was held by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) against corrupt power structures.

Many residents of Adygea note that the visa-free entry to Georgia for residents of Northern Caucasus is fine and convenient, but the fact that it exists for only a few regions makes, in their opinion, makes such a gesture incomplete.

Over eighty documentaries, feature and animated films were presented to the 5th International Film Festival "Cinema without Barriers", held in the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar Territory.

Today, Armenia hosted the opening ceremony of the world's longest reversible ropeway "Tatev Wings".

On that day the republic will cancel all festivities and entertainment television programmes in connection with the mourning ceremonies on the 40th day after the attack near the central marketplace in Vladikavkaz.

The youth opposition movement "November 7" has established a registration centre for the victims of the violent dispersal of the opposition rally in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007, and calls those who suffered at those events to get registered in the context of prepared complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

On October 15, Yazidis held their rally near the presidential residence because of the decision of the Ministry of Education of Armenia to publish textbooks in the Kurdish language and allocate lessons for studying Kurdish in schools, which, according to the protesters, infringes the rights of the Yazidis as a national minority.

The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld its previous verdict on immediate release of Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev from prison.

Within the series of activities aimed to educate the election subjects, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan has published the "Memo on Policemen's Participation in Elections to National Assembly". The opposition doubts of its usefulness.

The authorities of South Ossetian have declared their readiness to return, under supervision of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the Georgians, who left the Leningor Region (South Ossetia) during the war in August 2008 and now live in Georgia, to their former homes.