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Within the large-scale events dated to celebrations of the 20th anniversary of independence of Armenia, on September 16, an official ceremony of commissioning the new terminal of the Zvartnots Airport took place.

The credit has been allocated to support the country's reforms.

In October, one of the largest privately-owned Russian oil companies – the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Lukoil" – plans to lay the "first stone" of the future petrochemical complex in the Stavropol Territory.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has personally handed over a passport of Georgian citizen to the famous Russian conductor Mikhail Arkadiev. The ceremony took place on September 15 after the concert, which the conductor gave at the Conservatory of Tbilisi.

Within the Project ''Smile, Yerevan!'' already two buildings in the Armenian capital have been decorated with mosaic panels. The pictures are selected by the working group of the project, which comprises prominent artists, architects and entrepreneurs. The main precondition is the harmonic match of mosaics with the architectural appearance of the city.

In Azerbaijan, Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspapers "Aina" (Mirror) and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), whose relatives were attacked on September 9, is accused of violating the law. The journalist asserts that he committed no offences.

Today, the decision of the Pre-Kuban City Court of Krasnodar, stating that the custody conditions at the special detention facility of the Tuapse UVD (Interior Department), has entered its legal force. It was the demand of ecologist Suren Gazaryan, who was detained in February 2011 during a protest action at the so-called "Tkachov's summer cottage", to recognize as illegal the idleness of the Tuapse UVD and unacceptable conditions of detention at the jail.

According to the initial information obtained after decoding of the "black box" of the Azerbaijani aircraft, which crashed down in Afghanistan, the trajectory of landing of the aircraft did not meet the pre-approved trajectory of landing. This was stated by Ilham Amirov, chairman of the inquiry commission and vice-president of the CJSC "AZAL".

The public supervisory commission over prisons and jails in Kabardino-Balkaria met Murat Bizhev, who is kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) and accused of storing firearms.

Today, residents of the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, have paid tribute to the victims of the terror act committed in this city on September 16, 1999. That crime killed 19 persons; 73 citizens became invalids; and in total over 16,000 people, including more than 1000 children, were officially recognized to be victims.

Zubair Khalidov, Prosecutor of the Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has sent a petition to the Botlikh District Court asking to invalidate the decision of the head of the district Ismail Magomedsharipov on changing the status of local lands.

Today, the Presidium of the Bar of Azerbaijan has decided to suspend the powers of the lawyer Elchin Namazov and dismiss him from the Bar membership. The punishment followed the recognition by the Bar's disciplinary commission of Namazov's violation of professional ethics.

Tonight in Makhachkala, Omar Magomedov, the correspondent of the North-Caucasian bureau of the NTV Company, was beaten.

The youth Parliament of Chechnya announced a monthly charitable action "We are One Unit" in the republic.

Zainudin Daiziev, imam of a mosque in the settlement of Kadar, was shot down in the evening of September, 15, in Buinalsk district of Dagestan, Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

The relatives of ten victims of the events of March, 1, 2008, are indignant over the report of PACE Monitoring Committee "Activities of the Institutes of Democracy in Armenia". On September, 15, they held an action of protest near CE office in Armenia.

At night of September, 16, the police dispersed an action of protest of metallurgists in Georgia and detained 15 persons without a charge. Later the detained were released. This was reported by Irakly Petriashvili, leader of Association of Trade Unions.

The investigators engaged in the murder of the Chechen rights defender Natalia Estemirova check possible involvement of local power agents in the crime, Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of the Human Rights Society "Memorial", said at the press conference, "North Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger", which was held on September 14 in the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

Within consideration of the case of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, a major businessman and a former adviser of Armenian Prime Minister, accused of paedophilia, there are ten victims. All of them originate from socially disadvantaged families, as stated by Ovsep Sargsyan, the spokesman of the prosecution at the trial.

The drone (spy unmanned aircraft), which crashed down in Nagorno-Karabakh, had nothing to do with Azerbaijan, said the local Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was reported in a special statement of the Ministry.