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Today, the Leninskiy Court of the capital of Dagestan has ruled to return the criminal case against the editor-in-chief and four journalists of the republic's weekly "Chernovik", accused of kindling social enmity, back to the Prosecutor's Office for completion. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Biyakai Magomedov, the lawyer of the edition.

Actions in memory of journalist Anna Politkovskaya three years after her murder; developments at resonant litigations; negotiations of heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Karabakh settlement; signing by Turkey and Armenia of Protocols on development of mutual relations; elections in a number of regions of the SFD, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of October 5-11 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A new suspect in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", Oleg Shoshin, former employee of the Operative Division of the GUVD (City Interior Department) of Moscow, told about secret links between Dmitri Pavlyuchenkov, the main witness of the prosecution, and defendant Sergey Hadzhikurbanov, ex-worker of the Moscow UBOP (Organized Crime Counteracting Department).

In Derbent, where at election of the city head only 22 polling stations out of 36 were open, repeated voting can be appointed.

In the city of Karachaevsk, 20 minutes after closure of polling stations, messages from observers started to arrive that electricians suggested replacing illumination devices in the premises.

On October 12 in Makhachkala, Abulmuslim Murtazaliev, Chairman of the Public Chamber of Dagestan, said at the roundtable on the topic "On public-political broadcasting of Dagestan television that the authors of the so-called "execution lists" just wanted "to bring journalists back to the legal field."

Today, at the Zurich University, Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia and Turkey Edward Nalbandyan and Ahmet Davutoglu put their signatures under the documents on normalization of relations between these two countries - the "Protocol on Development of Mutual Relations" and "Protocol on Establishing Diplomatic Relations".

The ceremony of signing the Protocols "On Development of Mutual Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Turkish Republic" and "On Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of Armenia and the Turkish Republic", planned for today in Zurich, has been postponed by unknown period of time, as a member of the American delegation told journalists.

Murad Muradov, chairman of the precinct electoral commission No. 30 of the Dagestan city of Derbent, was beaten and kidnapped today in the afternoon by unidentified persons. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Nariman Abdulmutalibov, deputy head of the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of Dagestan.

Today, on October 10, Georgia said farewell to its well-known composer, artistic director of the popular vocal company "Iveria" Alexander Basilaya, who died on October 3 in Germany from lung cancer.

Today, a filming crew of the REN TV Channel was attacked by unidentified persons in Derbent (Dagestan).

The Azerbaijani citizens who profess Christianity experience no inconveniences. This was stated on October 9 by Father Alexander, Bishop of Baku and Pre-Caspian region, at the press conference on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of revival of the Baku-Pre-Caspian Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Without permit of Georgian authorities, a Turkish building company starts rebuilding the destroyed stadium in Tskhinvali. The works are funded by the Alisher Usmanov's Foundation.