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Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has extended the detention of 53 defendants-figurants in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, for three months more – until December 26. The four defendants, earlier released on recognizance not to leave, will remain in the same status.

In September 2011, the head of the Kayakent District of Dagestan included knowingly false information in the financial documents to allocate funds to buy housing for orphans and children without parental care. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

Chechen law enforcers carry out an operation to search for members of the armed underground in the border with Ingushetia in the Sunzha District of Chechnya, where the terror act was committed on September 16. The police claim the existing danger of a new terror act.

On September 16, in Volgograd, mothers of children with disabilities once again went on hunger strike, demanding to open a rehabilitation centre. Officials from the regional government assure that the renovation of the building, in which the largest Rehabilitation Centre in the Volgograd Region is expected to be opened, has been already started.

At the election of the President of Azerbaijan, Djamil Gasanli will gain the second place, Iqbal Agazade has a chance to take the third place, and Ilham Aliev will win the election. This was predicted by experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The terror act committed in the Sunzha District of Chechnya was organized by Doku Umarov. This was reported by Andrei Serezhnikov, Chief of the Russian FSB Department for Chechnya.

Musaev, Aliev, and Abakarov, residents of Dagestan, whose kidnapping was claimed by their relatives, were detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). On September 17, the pre-trial restriction measure would be pronounced to them.

The Ingush authorities have decided to demolish the houses of the families, which sheltered militants, and confiscate their land plots, said Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

After his visit to Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the service at the airport, promised to conduct more inspections of the Olympic facilities, and asked the Vice-Premier Dmitry Kozak to report on the construction progress every two weeks.

On September 15, the Day of the Chechen Woman, an opening ceremony of the memorial in honour of the 46 girls who were lost in 1819 in the capture of the village of Dadi-Yurt, Chechnya, was held in the Gudermes District of the republic.

After the provisional ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on the impossibility of Ibragim Musaev's extradition to Azerbaijan, there is no danger from Russian authorities; however, Musaev should take care and avoid becoming a victim of extrajudicial execution, said lawyer Olga Sadovskaya.

As a result of a car explosion in Ingushetia, one policeman was killed and three others wounded, the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the republic has reported.

The petition to change the freedom restriction measure of Djabrail Makhmudov, a defendant in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya for health reasons, was declined during the court session at the Moscow City Court. The figurant will stay behind bars.

Today, as a result of a suicide bombing committed in front of the building of the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) of Chechnya, three policemen were killed and four others were wounded. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya.

The murder of Dmitry Vishernev, a Russian diplomat, committed in the city of Sukhumi, could be caused by his involvement in major construction contracts and by his informal search for a Russian businessman, who disappeared in autumn of 2012. This was reported by sources from investigating bodies.

Summing up the results of elections, held on September 8 in Southern Russia; killing at Sukhumi of Russian diplomat; investigators' statement about new criminal case against Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 9-15, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 14, in Lenin Square, rally "Russians against Occupation" was held. About sixty participants of the rally demanded to grant the Astrakhan Region the status of the near-border region, to build in Astrakhan a monument to Svyatoslav the Brave, and not to amend the Law "On Citizenship".

Tonight, Abdulla Gappaev, a resident of Kizlyar, was murdered by unidentified men. According to the statement of Bilal Magomedov, an activist of the "Soyuz Spravedlivykh" (League of Righteous) Party, the murdered man was a public and religious figure.

In the Khosta District, policemen fabricated a case of administrative offence. This was reported by Olga Sofronova, a resident of Sochi. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Olga Sofronova that on August 30, she came to the OVD (Interior Division) to find out the fate of the complaint filed earlier.

On September 15, a rally was held as a part of a continuing campaign. The rally was attended by about 50 persons, and about 1000 signatures were collected to cancel the election outcomes. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.