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On September 23, the verdict in the case against Vladislav Zhuravlyov, ex-Deputy Mayor of Novocherkassk, accused "of inciting hatred and hostility", is to be pronounced. At the court session held on September 17, the court listened to the final speech of the defendant.

Three policemen, who were wounded as a result of the explosion of a car in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, were brought by a special aircraft to the Moscow hospital of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs . The state of two policemen is assessed by doctors as moderate, and one policeman is in serious condition.

At the trial on the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya held at the Moscow City Court, Oksana, the wife of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was sentenced in a special manner, refused to testify. The jury considered her testimony given during the preliminary investigation.

Today, Parviz Gashimli, an employee of the independent newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) and the director of the website moderator.az, was detained in Azerbaijan on suspicion of contraband and illegal possession of firearms. The journalist denies any wrongdoing.

A clash between locals and Russian border guards who are installing barbed wire happened near the Georgian village of Ditsi, Zakaria Vatikadze, the attorney of the Ditsi territorial body, said today.

Members of the Dagestan Branch of the Communist Party have addressed the head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov, the republic's Central Election Commission and the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan stating mass violations during the elections of deputies to the City Assembly of Derbent.

Investigators in Dagestan have decided to re-qualify the criminal case opened on the fact of threats addressed to the lawyers Magomedova and Suslanov, said the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova.

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.