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On September, 8, an action of protest passed off in front of the building of Armenian Government with the demand to stop construction of small hydropower station at the waterfall of Trchkan.

An emergency was registered in a military unit dislocated in Shamkir district of Azerbaijan. A soldier called up for active military service by Sheki district military registration and enlistment office committed suicide by firing from his duty weapon.

Today people in North Osetia honour the memory of the victims of terror at the Central market of Vladikavkaz committed a year ago. 19 persons perished then and over 200 were injured.

Madina Bakhalaeva, resident of "Krasny Skotovod" homestead of Proletarsky district, Rostov region, states that armed and masked people burst into her house and planted arms there. This was reported by Nicolay Khailenko, lawyer of "Legal Center" legal advice agency representing the interests of the native of Dagestan.

On September 7, the Tver District Court of Moscow held the first session on the merits on the criminal case on the riots in Manege Square in last December. The session was held in the open mode and in the presence of journalists and numerous supporters of "The Other Russia" Party.

The success of this morning's special operation in various districts of Ingushetia became possible due to the information received by power agents from the members of the armed underground who had surrendered several days ago. This was reported by Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of the republic.

According to the order of the head of the Volgograd Region administration, Roman Sozarukov is vested with authority of the adviser on internal and information policy.

In Astrakhan, Head of Department for cooperation with legal entities and individuals on issues of external improvements and status of infrastructure facilities of the city administration was detained for bribe-taking.

One of the goals of inter-regional youth volunteer campaign "Caucasian Donor", held in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), is to improve the image of the region. This was reported by Temirzhan Baisiev, the member of the Coordination Centre for the Donation of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Today, the group of activists of the "World Azerbaijanis Congress" (WAC) held a protest action near the Embassy of Iran to Baku to protest against the inertness of official Tehran in connection with the drying up of the large Lake Urmia situated in north-west of the country, which water-collecting area is densely populated by ethnic Azerbaijanis.

In Dagestan, the relatives of Ruslan Magomedov, who got a gunshot wound, were not allowed to take him for medical treatment outside the republic.

Within the investigation into the murder of the human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, inspectors check all the versions, including involvement of power agents. They already have a suspect, as stated today by Alexei Vasilkov, Deputy Head of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (AYLG) has questioned, after seeing the examination results, the official version of the death of Niko Kvintradze, who died, as the police assert, from an electric shock, when he was hiding on the roof of a house during the dispersal of the May 26 demonstration. According to the AYLG, Kvintradze was detained by policemen during the dispersal.

On September 2, the Pre-Volga District Military Court considered the cassation complaint lodged by Ruslan Kibirov, a native of North Ossetia, against the verdict of the Saratov Garrison Court.

The death of a nineteen-years-old soldier of statutory service Aik Mkrtchyan has been a result of a quarrel with his colleague, not careless weapon handling, Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia Vladimir Gasparyan declared.

Employees of the State Labour Inspectorate in the Republic of Dagestan and the Makhachkala Transport Prosecutor's Office have revealed numerous violations in the activities of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Dagestani Airlines".

During trial on the criminal case of murder of football fan Yegor Sviridov in Moscow city court on September, 7, defendant Aslan Cherkesov challenged juryman number two and state prosecutor Maria Semenenko. The challenge was declined. Besides, two witnesses were interrogated during the session.

Today members of the power ministries are carrying out special operations of capturing gunmen in three republics of Northern Caucasus: Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and Ingushetia. This was reported by official representative of National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) Nicolay Sintsov.

After an appeal of Maksharip Aushev's family and friends to President and Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Chief Directorate of the Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Southern and North-Caucasian Federal okrug recommenced investigation of the criminal case on the fact of the Ingush human rights activist's murder.

Two individual entrepreneurs in Rostov-on-Don were punished for selling gym shoes and T-shirts with an image of the state emblem of the Russian Federation.