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The city bosses prohibited all the events applied for by activists to mark the International Black Sea Day, and did it with violation of the procedure prescribed by the legislation of the Russian Federation for official answers. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee for Human Rights (NCHR).

Today, activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus have lodged their complaint to the District Court of Adler challenging the administrative sanctions imposed on them. The ecologists protest against the decision made frontier guards of the FSB, who had detained the "greens" allegedly for breaking the frontier regime.

Today, in the village of Dvani, Kartli District of Georgia, Alexander Makhachashvili, 13, found a grenade in the cemetery and decided to bring it home; however, the weapon blew up and wounded him.

On October 16, broad-scale operative-preventive actions started in the territory of Chechnya aimed at revealing hijacked cars and those with excessively tinted glasses within the campaign named "Automobile".

The organization "Reporters without Borders" has presented its next regular report with assessment of the freedom of speech in 175 countries of the world. By the "freedom of speech index" Armenia was put in the 111th place.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has conducted a check on the fact of detection of a body of a convict with traces of murder in the territory of the colony-settlement (UKP) of the Corrective Establishment No. 2 of the Russian Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") for Chechnya, located in the city of Argun.

Three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria - Timur Begidov, born in 1975 in Kenzhe village, and Ibragim Shogenov and Anzor Nagoev from the village of Dugulubgei, who left on October 2 to the city of Ufa in a refrigerator truck with a cargo of fruits for sale, have disappeared. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it at the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre, where Timur Begidov's parents addressed for help.

In the evening on October 19, in Plievo village, a local resident Azhigov by name was shot dead in his car.

The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) and the Institute of Media's Rights (IMR) have made a joint statement today, where they resolutely condemned the utterances of Azerbaijani officials that broadcasting of foreign companies in FM-frequencies will not be restored.

In the southwest of Chechnya, in its Urus-Martan District, unidentified persons shelled the house of an employee of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Besides, a fougasse was planted opposite the house.

Evgeniy Titov, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", complains that the militia makes no checks on his application about the insults sent to him as SMS messages from the telephone number of the director of a Novorossisk school; Mr Titov had a talk with him, when he prepared the material about the opponents of the "children's curfew".

The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted to consideration the complaint lodged on behalf of the "Bzhni" Mineral Water Factory, belonging to the oppositional activist Khachatur Sukiasyan, against the Republic of Armenia. The claimant demands compensation of 220 million euros for damage caused to the company.

Today, a process on the case of military expert Vakhtang Maisaya, accused of espionage, started in the capital of Georgia.