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On September 11, Ms Bekauri lodged a suit to the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia demanding to investigate the fact of infliction of bodily injuries to her client Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya. She told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today unidentified persons have attacked Islam Guseinov, the chairman of the Ulyanovsk regional branch of the public organization All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress (ARAC) and his bodyguard. Guseinov was wounded, his bodyguard was killed.

Last night, Vladimir Avakyan, a member of the Youth Parliament at the City Assembly of Sochi and an activist of the volunteer movement to help victims of the Krymsk flood, was lost. Eyewitnesses say that he committed suicide.

The Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has refused to make the trial of Vyacheslav Merekha, who became disabled as a result of supposed torture and rape at the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) in December 2010.

Today, at about 1 p.m., Anatoly Makhnovskiy, Chairman of the Territorial Public Self-Government (TPSG) "Kudepsta", who opposed the construction of a large thermal-and-power plant (TPP) in the Khosta District of Sochi, has deceased. This was announced by Igor Vasiliev, an assistant of Sergey Obukhov, a Russian State Duma Deputy from the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF).

The Amnesty International (AI) has expressed its concern about the situation around Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Committee Against Torture", and other human rights defenders and journalists.

Gazimagomed Gaziev, a resident of the township of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, asks to transfer his son Shamil Gaziev, who is serving his term in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District for committing a double terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010, out of a punitive confinement into a prison cell.

The Russian authorities must drop legal proceedings against the residents dissatisfied with construction of a big power plant in Khosta district of Sochi, international organization "Human Rights Watch" considers. It also calls for the authorities to stop construction of Kudepsta thermal power-station, secure freedom of speech and assembly pointing out that arrests and intimidation of protesters overshadow preparation for the Olympic Games in Sochi.

Last week, September, 3 - September, 9, no less than 16 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus. 14 of them perished and two got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region, has hosted a rally under the slogan "No to raise utility tariffs and no to liquidation of marketplaces!" The rally adopted a resolution with a demand to check the work of power suppliers and management companies of Volzhskiy, declare a moratorium on growth of utility rates and food prices, and a protest against the policy of city authorities aimed to liquidate marketplaces because of the outbreak of the African swine fever (ASF).

Five football players from North Ossetia - Alexander Lekov, Zaurbek Pagaev, Eduard Ramonov, Lasha Murvanadze and Aslanbek Sapiev - member of the Russian national team, have won gold medals in the football tournament of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

The police is deliberately delaying the magistrate trial on the protocol compiled under the article of "Disobedience to lawful demands of the police", said Ivan Karpenko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", who was detained in Sochi on his way to the rally in Kudepsta.

Elections to local self-government in Armenia, discussion of Chechen-Ingush border raised by head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov; release of Azerbaijani poets arrested in Iran; shelling of military column with killing of six servicemen; motor rally "White Stream", within which opposition held meetings and actions in Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Krasnodar and Stavropol, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 3-9, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Representatives of some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) object to the attempts of the oppose efforts of the Council of NGOs to represent the entire third sector of the republic in the case of pardoning the Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov. In particular, activists are against introduction of moratorium on Armenian-Azerbaijani meetings within regional projects.

Investigating authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia have opened a criminal case on incitement to suicide of Andrei Altukhov, 9, a pupil of the republic's children's home for orphans and children left without parental care.

Today, at the territorial consultative and diagnostic centre in Stavropol, a picket was held by the Orthodox youth movement "Soboryane" demanding legislative ban on abortions and encouraging large families.

A public subbotnik within the all-Russian campaign "Blogger Against Garbage" was held on September 8 in Stavropol. About 70 persons went out to clean the Taman Forest.

Tsotne, the son of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, has again gone on hunger strike in prison demanding better custody conditions in prisons.

Convict from Dagestan Arthur Khanaliev who is serving his penalty in a colony of Lipetsk region declared his intention to go on a hunger strike on September, 9, as a sign of protest against groundless, in his opinion, being regularly placed in a lockup during several months, his attorney Abdurahman Abdurahmanov reports. The lawyer demands to call all those guilty to account.

On September, 9, men's combined team of Armenia won in the 40th Chess Olympics that finished in Istanbul. So, Armenia became three-time Olympic champion and won the first prize in the competition.