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The forced resettlers from Chechnya and North Ossetia, who live in Ingushetia in temporary accommodation centres (TACs), assert that their long years spent in trailers have undermined their health.

On September 23, the closing ceremony of the international youth forum "Targim-2011" and presentation of diplomas and memory gifts to its participants took place in Ingushetia.

On September 23, in front of the UN Office in Tbilisi, the United Trade Unions of Georgia held a rally of solidarity with the detained workers of the "Hercules" Steel Works, located in Kutaisi.

A group of investigators from the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian and Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), engaged in investigating the murder of human rights defender Maksharip Aushev, has visited Ingushetia. On September 23, they conducted investigatory actions in the city of Nazran, where Mr Aushev had lived and worked.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region has imposed fines from 1 to 10 thousand roubles on the persons guilty of poisoning schoolchildren in the village of Veshenskaya.

Investigators suspect the employee of the State Corporation (SC) "Olympstroy", who took part in concluding of an unlawful agreement on compensation for the property, alienated with the aim of preparation of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, of a large-scale fraud.

The crew of the ship "Antlia" is suffering at the port of Rostov-on-Don because of problems of the ship-owner.

During its visits to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the delegation of Tuvalu signed joint declaration on establishing diplomatic relations with these two countries.

Today, at the session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court, the defendants figuring in the case of the so-called "Urman Jamaat" asked the judges to pass a fair decision.

The lawyer Mussa Pliev has announced today that the official representatives of the relatives of the assassinated Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev will ask the prosecutor's office to supervise the further investigation into his murder, so that it was brought to an end. Should the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) fail to move forward with the investigation of the murder, they intend to appeal to international organizations.

Today, a delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has visited Ingushetia and treated the living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) as unsatisfactory.

Today in Makhachkala, the Rhodope Boulevard housed a sanctioned rally. About a thousand residents of Dagestan came to voice their protest against the actions of the head of the Akhvakh District Ismail Magomedsharipov.

Magomed Murtuzaliev, Deputy Head of the Department of the FSIN (Russian Federal Correction Service), had repeatedly received threats, said a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The Armenian National Congress (ANC) has decided to change the current ruling regime, Nikol Pashinyan, an oppositional activist and editor-in-chief of the "Armenian Time" newspaper, said today at a rally. He called the audience to revolution.

Nadezhda Gogoleva, Director of School No. 74 and a member of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) was dismissed today in Astrakhan without any explanations.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg held a public hearing on the lawsuit of Georgia to the Russian Federation on the results of the war in South Ossetia in August 2008.

On September 21 the activists of the Resistance Movement and several NGOs held a rally at the Council of Europe (CoE) mission in Tbilisi.

Representative of Azerbaijani Diaspora in Germany held a picket in the city of Stuttgart to protest against the concert "The 20th Anniversary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic."

Families residing in the territory of Promzhilbaza (industrial dwelling centre) in the town of Karabulak, will not be evicted. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Isa Khashiev, Deputy Chief of Russia's Federal Migration Service of the Republic of Ingushetia, who on September 21 within the committee visited refugees' temporarily accommodation centres (TACs).

Today, at the hearings on the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, the court prolonged the detention of 55 defendants for another three months. The court also questioned four victims on the incident of the attack on the border guard unit in Nalchik.