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Power agents have cancelled the CTO regime in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, which was introduced here in the morning.

The official Baku has announced a possible revision of interrelations with the European Union (EU) in connection with the resolution adopted by the European Parliament and containing criticism of the human rights situation in Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has cancelled the visit of the delegation of the European Commission to the country.

As stated by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Chechnya, everything is ready for the elections of deputies of the City Council of Gudermes and the village council of Novy Benoy. Local residents have noted that the candidates from the party in power have almost no competitors at the elections.

The City Court of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has received by e-mail an appeal of legal representatives of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the recognition of the book, based on quotations from the Koran, to be extremist. However, the court demands to send, until September 12, the original complaint with Kadyrov's original signature.

The objectives of the regional human rights centre of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) will include not only protection of human rights, but also counteraction to the spread of religious extremism, said Valery Khatazhukov, the head of the centre. In this regard, the centre intends to cooperate with the republic's power structures.

Residents of the republic are not active in early voting, said a source from the Republic's Election Commission (REC). According to his data, in the Babayurt District, only 27 voters have applied for early voting for deputies of the district assembly. Also, the elections were held on the remote island of Chechen.

Power agents are searching for militants in connection with the inquiry into the murder of Magomed Khidirov, the Imam of the mosque of the village of Novy Kurush.

The escalation in the conflict zone takes place against the background of intensified Baku-Moscow contacts, Azerbaijani experts have noted. In recent years, Azerbaijan has multiplied its military power, said Uzeyir Jafarov, the head of the NGO "Military Journalists".

Armenian media organizations have called the Special Investigating Service not to delay the investigation into the use of excessive force against demonstrators on June 23 in Yerevan. According to their version, out of 24 suffered journalists six have not been questioned yet.

The proceeds from the charity concert "In Memory of the Dead", the tickets for which were from 300 to 1500 roubles, will be given to families of killed journalists. The organizers of the event paid tribute to the Centre for Protection of Media Rights, the head of which this year was awarded the "Kamerton" (Tuning Fork) Award named after Anna Politkovskaya.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has extended until November 15 the custody of Saida Khalikova, a student from Astrakhan, accused of sponsoring the "Islamic State" (IS).

Legal representatives of Ramzan Kadyrov have challenged the decision of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court, which had treated the Islamic book with ayats (verses) from Koran as extremist. The lawyers find the above decision as contradicting to the Russian legislation.

The Volgograd Regional Court has granted the appeal lodged by advocates of Nikolai Parshin, an MP of the Russian State Duma, against the decision of the Tsentralny District Court to put him in custody.

Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the Dagestani branch of the Russian Pension Fund, was arrested in absentia for two months by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. His defence asked to leave him at large on bail of 5 million roubles; however, the court ruled in favour of investigators.

According to investigators, the defendants are involved in undermining the car of Magomedsaid Gadjiev, Chief of the Inter-District FSB Department for the Karabudakhkent District, who later died in hospital. They are also accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

The campaign for the election of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban, by the name of the main river) is passive, while propaganda materials of candidates for deputies are spread uncontrollably and in huge volumes, causing irritation, said local residents.

On September 11, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Spitak, Ashtarak, and Yerevan will hold protest actions against the increase in electricity tariff. However, the Yerevan Mayor's Office crossed out Bagramyan Avenue from the planned route of the rally-march. This was reported by Maxim Sargsyan, a member of the initiative group "No to robbery!"

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has called unacceptable the insulting statements made by the Chechen leader with regard to the judge and the public prosecutor in connection with the fact that the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court had banned the book based on quotations from the Koran.

Magomed Khidirov, Imam of the Sufi mosque in the village of Novy Kurush, who was shot dead in the morning of September 9, had entered no conflicts with followers of the Salafi trend of Islam. This was reported by local residents.

In Sochi, a unit of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has saved a 77-year-old woman, who had lain unconscious in her apartment for a few days. There are many cases in the city, when elderly people faint in their closed apartments, but rescuers not always manage to help them, while the city has no residential home for the elderly, where such lonely people could be placed, said a source from the social protection service.