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The head of the technical part of the Rostov Law Institute (RLI) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia is suspected of official malfeasance - embezzling of the institute's funds and forgery.

One of the defendants on the case of riots at Manege Square in Moscow in last December pled guilty in incriminated deeds, two defendants pled guilty in part, and two others did not consider themselves guilty.

Medical professionals began rapid testing of students for drug use in schools and vocational schools of all cities and districts of the Krasnodar Territory.

In the mountainous district of Georgia, a helicopter "Mi-8" of the Armed Forces of the republic suddenly lost control and fell. According to the Ministry of Defence of Georgia, the helicopter had its crew, Georgian and foreign journalist camera crews on its board. The affected persons suffered minor injuries.

On September 6, the Dzerzhinsk District Court of Volgograd held the first session on the case of Nikolai Volkov, ex-deputy of the Regional Duma, who is accused of a series of sexual crimes against children, forging a passport and escape, and a series of crimes against sexual inviolability of juveniles. At the trial, Volkov pled guilty.

Start of construction of "Arkhyz" Resort in the mountains of Karachay-Cherkessia and crash of helicopter with officials; a triple terror act in Grozny on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, committed by suicide bombers; mourning events in memory of the victims of the 2004 Beslan tragedy; first nominee for presidency in South Ossetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 29-September 4, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Aik Mkrtchyan, a 19-year-old regular soldier of the Armenian Army, perished as a result of violation of rules for handling weapons by Lendrush Nazlukhanyan, his colleague. This was reported by the press service of Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to obtained information, as a result of an armed attack in the city of Makhachkala, Gadjibutta Alunkachaev, the deputy of the District Assembly of Novolakskoe District of Dagestan, was wounded and his relative was killed. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of Dagestan.

Military investigators check information about holding soldier Andrei Popov as a slave at a brick factory in Dagestan.

16 persons suspected of drug smuggling, illegal keeping and carrying of firearms and ammunition, were arrested due to the operational activities conducted by the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan.

This morning a nineteen-years-old soldier of Armed Forces of Armenia Aik Mkrtchyan was killed during his combat duty on the contact line of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan.

This afternoon, an unidentified person opened fire at two men in Makhachkala. According to preliminary data, they both perished, a source in law enforcement bodies of the capital of Dagestan reported.

On September, 15, a conference "Twenty years of independence in Southern Caucasus: achievements and problems" devoted to territorial conflicts in Southern Caucasus will be held in Washington.

The Building Bridges international camp took place in Rondine from 18th to 31th July 2011. Among the participants, twenty young Abkhazians and twenty young Georgians, along with Rondine's students and young adults from the Italian civil society. The initiative, realized through the COBERM program “Confidence Building Early Response Mechanism”, was funded by the EU and managed by the UNDP.

According to human rights activists, two young people were carried away from their houses by force and cruelly beaten up in Staropromislovsky district of Grozny. Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya do not confirm this information.

The leaders of several human rights organizations of Armenia express their concern about the situation in the Armenian Army and declare that, if no serious steps on solving crimes in the army are taken within a month, they will demand resignation of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief.

In 2001, Ayub Dovletukaev, a resident of the village of Dzhalka of Gudermes District of the Chechen Republic, who was kidnapped and murdered in Chechnya, was sentenced on charges of involvement on the militants' side in the armed clash, which took place in the hospital of Gudermes, and he was serving his term in a psychiatric hospital. In 2005, unidentified armed men kidnapped Rustam Dovletukaev, his brother.

The Alliance for Protection of Political Freedoms (APPF) issued a statement expressing concern about the increasing number of political prisoners in Azerbaijan. According to the APPF, eleven people sentenced in the country during the three summer months of this year are political prisoners.

On August 29, Roman Magomadov, a medrese teacher, and his students Rustam Seliev, Viskhan Geliskhanov and Ruslan Sakkazov, who had been kidnapped in Chechnya, were released.

On September 6, an opening ceremony of the beach intended for women and children, named "Goryanka" (Mountain Woman), was held in the city of Makhachkala. The beach has its own security system, and it is fenced off from the outside world. This project, carried out by a private investor, was supported by the city administration, which believed that the beach would be able to assist in solving many social problems of Dagestani women.