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At night of September 18, in Saint Petersburg, a mass fight occurred. It involved eight natives of Dagestan and two policemen, employed at the OMON (riot police) of Saint Petersburg.

In the evening of September 18, in Azerbaijan, the Saatli District Court pronounced the decision to release Mirabad Rzaev, an activist of the headquarters of the public organization "Kura". The court sentenced the activist to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

During the meeting with the co-Chairs of the Geneva discussions, Leonid Tibilov, President of South Ossetia, has stated that he is aware of the Georgia's military preparations in the border areas. In its turn, the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM), following the inspection in the Gori District of Georgia, which borders with South Ossetia, has issued a statement, in which it called on the parties to show restraint.

Minister of Execution of Sentences, probation and legal aid Khatuna Kalmakhelidze submitted a statement of her resignation to Prime Minister of the country after the actions of protest against torturing convicts in the prisons of Georgia that passed off in Tbilisi and the towns of Batumi and Poti. Today the actions of protest will go on.

Actions of protest against torturing convicts in the prisons of Georgia are going on in Tbilisi, Batumi and Poti. The number of participants of the action near the building of Philharmonic Society in the capital of Georgia exceeded two thousand persons, Georgian journalist Timur Kiguradze delivered on-the-spot reportage to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya, residing in the territory of the "Promzhilbaza" (in the city of Karabulak), declare their readiness to start a hunger strike on September 20. In total, 30 persons intend to take part in the protest action.

Alexander Kulikov, Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Law, claimed that the policemen exceeded their power during the detention of pensioner Galina Tikhenko at the rally in Volgograd and that he intended to demand that the leaders of the Regional Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) should conduct official investigation.

On September 17, in Batumi, emigrants, who arrived in Georgia, held a protest action against restrictions on their rights to vote.

Today, Aishat Alieva, a resident of Makhachkala, claimed that she could not find out the whereabouts of her husband Uzair Aliev, who was detained by staff members of the Kizlyar OVD (Interior Division) on September 16.

Saniyat Magomedova, who was killed in Khasavyurt, was not pregnant; and her father-in-law Mamatkhan Baisultanov tried to receive - through his complaints against investigators - material compensation, said the Investigatory Department for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Georgia, policemen have detained - on charges of inhuman treatment of prisoners - three employees of the Gldani Penal Institution No. 8, one more supervisor has been put on the wanted list, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said today.

Today, around 100 people took part in a rally against rising utility rates and salary debts to workers of the Volgograd Shipyard.

Volunteers, mostly pupils, have held a subbotnik to clean up Mount Elbrus, located in Kabardino-Balkaria, from household garbage left behind by tourists.

Today, Vladimir Dorokhin, the Russia's Ambassador in Baku, was served a note of protest on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan in connection with the statements of the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Today, the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has ruled to make the trial on the lawsuit of Vyacheslav Merekha, who became disabled as a result, as he claims, torture and rape committed at the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) in December 2010, open for the public.

The sappers defused a bomb left by unidentified persons near a store in the settlement of Babayurt, Babayurt district of Dagestan. Its volume was five kilogram trotyl equivalent, a representative of Operation Headquarters in the republic reported.

Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in the town of Kaspiysk, Dagestan, received a statement from a local resident. He reported that his son's location had been unknown since September, 11.

Last week, September, 10 to September, 16, 2012, no less than 21 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus. 15 out of them perished and six got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Araz Guliev, Editor-in-Chief of xeber44.com online religious media functioning in the South of the country, was arrested in Azerbaijan. Upon a verdict of Masally district court dated September, 10, Guliev was arrested for a two-months term. He is accused of hooliganism committed by o group of persons, the Institute of Freedom and Safety of Reporters referring to the arrested man's brother Azer Guliev reports.

The Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory declared the Airline CJSC (Closed Joint-Stock Company) "Nebesny Express" (Sky Express) a bankrupt.