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The Georgian Central Election Commission (CEC) has refused to register Salome Zurabishvili, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs and the honorary chair of the "Georgia's Way" Party, as a presidential candidate.

On the Day of Knowledge, in the village of Terechnoe of the Khasavyurt District, parents and school teachers held a spontaneous rally and claimed the catastrophic condition of the school building.

At the motion of the Prosecutor's Office, the Court for the Tsentralny District of Sochi has extended the period of home arrest of journalist Nikholai Yarst till October 3.

Armenia has decided to join the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, says the joint statement of Presidents of Russia and Armenia, signed after the talks of the leaders of the two countries.

The policeman, who was wounded as a result of today's shooting in Makhachkala, has died in hospital, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan. Thus, the total number of the casualties of the gunfire has reached three persons.

Arutyun Mkrtchyan, a student of the Yerevan State University (YSU), detained on September 2 during the students' protest against increase of tuition fees for higher education, was released on that very day.

The "Karata" Society has decided to indefinitely postpone the hunger strike in protest against the failure of the authorities to solve the murder of journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev.

The Tver Court of Moscow has granted the motion filed by the investigating authorities to detain in custody Viktor Matveev, General Director of the engineering company "Tekhnoprom".

On August 31, three residents of Azerbaijan, who lived and worked illegally in the territory of Chechnya, were deported from the republic by the court's decision. This was reported by the Department of the Federal Migration Service (FMS) for Chechnya.

On September 2, Beslan continued to hold the Memory Watch to pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the terror act committed in 2004 and held the so-called "Day of Silence".

Rustam Ibragimbekov, Chairman of the opposition National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan, has filed an appeal to the Supreme Court against the refusal of the Central Election Commission to allow him running for the presidency of Azerbaijan.

Construction works in Navaginskaya Street, a central street of Sochi, are conducted in violation of the laws and regulations of fire safety. This was reported by representatives of public organizations of Sochi.

Blogger Alexei Ulyanov has a chance to win the claim filed in connection with the bad state of the roads. This was stated by Alexander Voronov, Chairman of the Volgograd Branch of the Federation of Russian Car Owners.

Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan arrived in Moscow today to discuss, in particular, the prospects for cooperation between Armenia and the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan.

Eldar Namazov, the leader of the oppositional political movement EL (People) and the head of the office of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), was again questioned by the Investigating Department for Serious Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan.

Dmitry Sukhomlinov, the advocate of the Azerbaijani citizen Ibragim Musaev, has lodged a complaint to the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) about the decision on the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia to extradite his client.

About 200 people took part in a protest against the increase of tuition fees at universities. One of the organizers – the student Arutyun Mkrtchyan – was taken to a police station.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has granted the prosecutors' motion and ruled to place Ibragim and Djabrail Makhmudov, figurants in the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskay, into custody.

As reported by the city administration of Sochi, on September 10, a special commission will start searching – by visiting flat by flat – for illegal migrants to be evicted before the Winter Olympic Games.

Most of the residents of Dagestan and Ingushetia should vote against all the approved candidates for the leaders of the republics, if the elections were direct – these are the results of the opinion poll, conducted by the magazine "Dosh" and volunteers of the Centre of Caucasian Initiative.