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The Moscow City Court has rescheduled for October 8 the consideration of the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", because of quarantine at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where defendant Sergey Khadjikurbanov is kept.

The criminal case against Professor Mikhail Savva from Kuban State University, the director of grant programmes of the Southern Regional Resource Centre was sent to the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar. This was reported by the Court.

Valery Kardanov, ex-General Director of the Fuel Company of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) (a subsidiary of Oil-and-Gas Company "Rosneft") is suspected of embezzling a recreation centre in the nature reserve at foothills of Mount Elbrus.

The streets in the centre of Grozny are blocked for the passage of vehicles, and at intersections and main roads, enhanced police and military squads are on duty. The city authorities explain the enhanced security measures by upcoming celebrations for the series of events of October 5.

According to information published on the website of the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), Refugees and Resettlement, at present, in Georgia, there are more than 258,000 IDPs. Of them, more than 140,000 persons came from Abkhazia and more than 20,000 from South Ossetia.

Socially disadvantaged residents of Tbilisi, who live in a former building of railway hospital, have started a hunger strike, demanding to solve their housing problems.

The parents of disabled children have stopped their hunger strike in Volgograd, having received promises of the officials of the All-Russian Popular Front (ARPF) to satisfy their demands, as the former hunger-strikers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Kizilyurt District Court has begun a retrial on the murder of a woman from the village of Nechaevka. The defendant – the casualty's uncle – has refused to plead guilty and testify.

Azerbaijan has completed a preliminary investigation into the case of theologian Talekh Bagirzade, accused of illegal possession of drugs. The case was sent to the court. The defendant remains in custody, despite the expiration on September 30 of the term of his arrest, said his advocate Jawad Javadly.

The Georgian authorities have denied entry to the Russian MP Vasily Likhachov, a member of the PACE delegation for monitoring the election in Georgia. This was stated by Alexei Pushkov, the head of the Russian delegation to the PACE office.

Today, at the Department of the Russian Pension Fund (RPF) for Dagestan, law enforcers have started searches and seizure of documents to be examined for fraud and embezzlement.

Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) dismissed the complaints filed by Tyurkel Kerimli, a son of Ali Kerimli, the leader of the "Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan" (PFPA), and two other young men, who had been sentenced by the court to administrative arrest on charges of disobeying police.

Combat engineers have defused an improvised explosive device with capacity of 12 kg of TNT left by unidentified persons at the restaurant "Golden Empire" in Makhachkala. This was reported by the Operational Headquarters in the Republic of Dagestan.

Suicide bombing and killing of SC judge in Dagestan; investment forum in Sochi, held after emergency situation caused by bad weather; conviction of Hilal Mamedov, editor-in-chief of "Tolyshi Sado", in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 23-29, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 29, several hundred residents of the capital of Georgia, who are not satisfied with the pace of restoring justice in the country, held an action near the parliament building in central Tbilisi.

During the week of September 23-29, 2013, at least 42 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 21 persons were killed, and 21 persons were wounded.

Investigator from the Khasavyurt Inter-District Investigating Division has lost a complaint reporting on torture against Shamil Salatgereev, a resident of Dagestan. This was reported by advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.

Police Sergeant, who was wounded to his head in an armed attack on a police squad that was committed on September 28 in Makhachkala, died at the hospital. This was reported by a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

Alisa Ganieva's book about Dagestan has been included in the long list of the "NOS" Literary Award. The short list is to be announced on October 31, and the winner will become known in late January 2014.

The disappearance of three female residents of Khasavyurt, Kizlyar, and Dokuzparin Districts of Dagestan was reported to the police by their relatives.