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The Makhachkala Mayoralty is unable to provide the city with a sufficient amount of city garbage platforms and finance the clearing of spontaneous dumps, said the spokesman of the cleaning company "ECO-M". In their turn, officials claim that it is the "ECO-M", which is badly doing its duties of garbage removal.

Last night, in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, three unidentified men shelled law enforcers and were killed by return fire.

Idris Yusupov, a Dagestani journalist of the edition "Novoye Delo", has appealed against his putting on the "prophylactic registry" and demanded to punish the perpetrators. He sent the appropriate application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC).

Since September 17, in the Voroshilov District of Volgograd, Evgenia Lebedeva, an assistant of the magistrate judge of the Sovietsky District, is being looked for.

The Stavropol Regional Court has postponed for September 27 the court hearing in the case against Kurman-Ali Baichorov, Imam of Kislovodsk, accused of drug trafficking. The Court has provided the public prosecutor with time to get acquainted with the defence motion to check the prosecution evidence.

Maxim Smyshlyaev, a resident of Rostov, is accused of aiding and abetting Ukrainian citizen Arthur Panov, who was plotting a terror act, without any evidence of the investigation. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Centre "E" of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has requested personal data and telephone numbers of female students wearing hijab and students-"neophytes" from the managers of the Dagestani State Medical University (DSMU).

Anzor Saraliev, who came from Germany to visit his family in Chechnya, was kidnapped by power agents on September 12 during Kurban Bayram, said his mother.

At the meeting of farmers with members of the Human Rights Council (HRC), officials of the Krasnodar Territory tried to escape dialogue and present farmers' problems as insignificant, said Alexei Volchenko, the leader of the farmers.

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) is concerned about the failure of Azeri authorities to enforce the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg obliging them to release the opposition leader Ilgar Mamedov. The Committee sees here a violation of Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

Investigators suspect Andrei Rudomakha and Dmitri Shevchenko, activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), of slandering Alexander Remezkov, the former vice-governor of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory). A criminal case has been opened against them.

Complaints about alleged violations during the elections were sent to the Central Election Commission (CEC) from 58 regions of Russia. As stated by the Ella Pamfilova, the Chair of the CEC, the Rostov Region and the Stavropol Territory are in the lead by the number of complaints.

In the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, a special operation is being carried out a week after the completion of a previous counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the district.

The Maikop City Court has obliged two persons, who witnessed the detention of Circassian activist Adnan Khuade, to provide printouts of their mobile phone calls for the day of the defendant's detention. Advocates of Adnan Khuade believe that staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) could ask the witnesses to come to the place of the activist's detention.

The ruling "Georgian Dream" Party has offered its opponents to sign a memorandum, which would guarantee the non-interference of participants of the parliamentary race into each other's campaigns, in order to avoid incidents. The document is formal and does not guarantee the parties' refusal to hold protest actions after the elections, political analysts believe.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, inspectors of the juvenile police are engaged in checking families with children of the defendants sentenced in the case of the attack on Nalchik. The checks also affected the families in which at least one parent followed the Salafi concept of Islam.

At the request of public prosecutor, investigator started an additional investigation with regard to the retired spouses Klara and Valentin Donchi-ool accused in the case of felling of trees. The investigation is being carried out by the same investigator, whose materials were not approved by the Prosecutor's Office.

When he was nominated to the State Duma from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party and later gave up a mandate, Ramazan Abdulatipov had the goal to ensure votes for Gadjimet Safaraliev, who was not enough familiar for voters.

Now, the student's defence will seek annulment of his arrest at the Presidium of the Moscow City Court (MCC), said the advocate Murad Kakhrimanov.

In Rostov-on-Don, the public reception of the President of Russia has refused to accept a letter from workers of the "Kingcoal" group of companies, who demand to repay wage arrears and debts for ration coal. This was reported by the protesters.