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11 out of 54 people, who were injured in two explosions in the capital of Dagestan, were hospitalized. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the reception wards of the Republic's Clinical Hospital, the Republic's Association of Emergency Medical Aid and the Republic's Traumatological Hospital.

Andrei Popov, a soldier from Saratov, who claims to have been kept in slavery in brick factories in Dagestan for 11 years, was hospitalized after returning from a trip to Dagestan.

In the city of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), the investigation is over into the criminal case against the head of the therapy ward of the central city hospital, whose misdiagnosis resulted in death of a patient.

Today, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported with reference to the latest data of the Investigatory Committee of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) that on September 20, in the course of the special operation, held in the Elbrus District of the KBR, two members of the armed underground, involved in several high-profile terrorist crimes, were killed.

The refugees from Chechnya, who have been living since mid-1990s in the city of Karabulak in temporary accommodation centres (TACs), are afraid of being forced to leave Ingushetia. Today, they wait for a commission of the Ministry of Nationalities' Matters of Ingushetia, which will demand to abandon the territory by September 30.

Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspaper "Ayna" (Mirror) and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) whose relatives were attacked on September 9 at their home, said at a press conference that he continued experiencing pressure and threats.

Today, the Moscow City Court has upheld the verdict of the Tagansky District Court to the blogger Alexei Dudko - six years in prison.

At the session held on September 20, the prosecutor demanded life imprisonment for the seven defendants, figuring in the murder case of the Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

According to preliminary data, the explosion of a car in Makhachkala killed three persons, said a source from the city UVD (Interior Division).

The life of Fatuse Bzhikshieva, who was injured by the explosion in Sukhumi, is out of danger, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Republic's Hospital of Sukhumi. According to preliminary information, the power of the bomb, triggered in the car, was equivalent to 200 grams of TNT (trotyl) equivalent.

The villagers of Ali-Yurt, where the family of Magomed Evloev, the supposed executor of the terror act at the Domodedovo Airport, lives, where glad to receive the news about termination of the criminal prosecution of his sister and a fellow villager. This was announced by Idris Ganizhev, the head of the village administration.

Today in the morning, in the course of the protest action held in Yerevan, Levon Barsegyan, Chairman of the "Asparez" Journalists' Club, located in the city of Gyumri, was taken to the police station in the Yerevan Community "Centre", where he was kept for about three hours and then released.

The Kutaisi Court has sentenced three activists of the trade union movement, who organized the protest action at the steel plant from September 13 to 15, to 10 days of administrative arrest.

Yesterday, on September 19, in Moscow, the House of Journalists hosted a presentation of the book written by Adam Michnik, one of the leaders of the Polish opposition in the socialist era, the editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper "Wyborcza", who in 2007 led the group monitoring the Georgian TV channels, which was established in Georgia on the recommendation of the European institutions.

The Ombudsman of Georgia has appealed to the General Public Prosecutor with a recommendation to initiate an investigation into the actions taken by the policemen against strikers at the metallurgic plant "Hercules" in the city of Kutaisi.

The Investigatory Department of Dagestan is intentionally slow in investigating the criminal case of the pregnant Sapiyat Magomedova, who was shot dead in 2006 by militiamen. This was stated to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Mamatkhan Baisultanov, the father-in-law of the murdered woman, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt.

Asmat (Shorena) Khangoshvili, a teacher of English, who was released from arrest in Tbilisi, denied the information that she had entered into a procedural agreement with the investigators.

On September 19, the Khasavyurt City Court of the Republic of Dagestan held its first hearing on the criminal case against the employees of the Khasavyurt OVD (Interior Division), accused of beating the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova. The judge forbade reporters to video, photo the events in the courtroom, and adjourned until September 21, when he will announce his decision on the defence's petition to return the case to the prosecutor.

The parents of the children who were infected with HIV back in 1988 in Kalmykia demand compensation from the state of their moral harm. This was reported by Ochir Shovgurov, a member of the initiative group. According to his story, back in June this year the parents filed a suit to the Elista City Court, which, in its turn, demanded a document from them on recognition them to be the "aggrieved party", since earlier they were witnesses in the case.

North Ossetia is now investigating a criminal case against a 61-year old resident of Vladikavkaz, suspected of a threat to commit a terror act.