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Celebrations devoted to the Day of Republic also known as Day of civic accord and unity passed off in Chechnya. The celebrations in Grozny ended with picturesque fireworks.

About one hundred people are currently present at a meeting against violation of the law of the Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria in the rural resettlement of Kashkhatau, one of the participants of the action reported. The goal of the action is to draw attention of the authorities and Prosecutor General of Russia to non-observance of the law "On general principles of organization of local self-government" by regional and republican authorities.

Resident of Makhachkala Aminat Isaeva appealed to law enforcement bodies reporting disappearance of her son Islam Isaev, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

A worker of "Shakhtoupravlenie "Obukhovskaya" limited company located in the suburbs of the town of Zverevo, Rostov region, perished during rock processing works.

Starting from September 10, the Armenian "A1+" TV Company, which was deprived of air 10 years ago, will start broadcasting in the air of the "Armnews." It was reported by Artak Aleksanyan and Mesrop Movsisyan, the heads of the "A1+" and "Armnews".

By 96 votes "pro" and one "contra", the Armenian Parliament has adopted the statement, in which it declared the suspension of official contacts with Hungary in connection with extradition from Budapest to Baku of Ramil Safarov, sentenced for the murder of Armenian officer.

In Yerevan, about 500 persons took part in two protest actions, held in conjunction with the arrival of Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Secretary General of NATO. Young people protested in connection with extradition to Azerbaijan of Ramil Safarov, who was convicted by Hungarian court for murder of Armenian soldier Gurgen Margaryan.

On September 5, members of the project "Occupy Kuban" were detained by the police for several hours in the village of Dzhubga of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory. This was reported by the website of the "Yabloko" Party. Today, there was an attempt to detain eleven activists at the railway platform of the city of Khosta.

In Volgograd, a correspondent of the "NTV" TV Company was detained during the shooting of reportage on the elimination of African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks in the region, held in the building of the Department of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance.

Today, the magistrate court of the city of Volzhsky found pensioner Galina Tikhenko, detained at a rally in Volgograd, guilty of committing an administrative violation. However, the court released the pensioner from administrative liability, having pronounced an oral warning.

During the last two weeks, 13 policemen of the patrol-and-post service (PPS) of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were killed and 20 more were wounded. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Marifa Lyanova, the head of personnel of the separate regiment for the protection of the administrative boundaries of the MIA in the Republic of Ingushetia. She has noted that it is the first time when she faces such losses in the ranks of policemen during her 20-year-employment at the regiment.

In August 1-31, the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) reported two violations of the rights of the religious organizations of "Jehovah's Witnesses" - in the Rostov Region and North Ossetia. This is stated in the reference of the Management Centre of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in the Russian Federation on manifestations of intolerance to the believers of this confession.

Gocha Khugaev from North Ossetia is a gold medallist at London Paralympics in long jump among athletes of categories F37 and F38.

Today, the Russia's largest book forum of international scale - the jubilee 25th Moscow International Book Fair - opened the booth of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", named "Human Rights" and organized by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. During the exhibition, a new book about the situation in Dagestan was presented.

Relatives of Ramazan Sharamazanov, who was killed on September 2 in a shootout with the police, state that they cannot get his body for burial, said Murtuzali Tagirov, the chairman of the human rights organization "Fighter for Justice".

According to the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Magomed Idrisov has applied to the law enforcement bodies about the disappearance of his daughter Madina Idrisova, who had gone to visit her friends to the village of Uchkent, Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan.

A republican family-type rehabilitation center for disabled children opened in Grozny. It is the first medical institution of this kind in Russia, officials of the Ministry of Public Health of Chechnya emphasize.

In schools of the Volgograd Region, children from low-income Gypsy families receive free school textbooks and breakfasts. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Valentina Simenenko, Principal of the school No. 46 of the village of Verkhnyaya Elshanka.

During the six months of this year, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan registered 96 reports of kidnappings. Of these, 72 are complaints of parents of girls, abducted for marriage. The statistics of kidnappings in Dagestan, published by human rights defenders at the forum in Vladikavkaz, differs from the data available to law enforcement agents.

Yesterday, on September 4, residents of the village of Utsmiyurt of the Babayurt District of Dagestan blocked the highway Kizlyar-Babayurt, demanding to build a new school in the village. According to the pupils' parents, the modular school, in which their children are studying, is not suitable for lessons. The highway was unblocked; however, the today's lessons in school were cancelled.