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Today in Vladikavkaz, where the third interregional forum of rights defenders of Northern Caucasus is being held, Lyudmila Alekseeva, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, was awarded the premium named after Natalia Estemirova – "Person of Honour and Conscience", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Near the village of Prirechny, Maikop District of Adygea, two big Rottweiler dogs attacked an 11-year-old child and heavily bit him. The boy was hospitalized in grave condition with multiple bites and lacerations. Now his life is out of danger, said a doctor from the Republic's Children Hospital.

In Makhachkala, unidentified armed men in camouflage and masks have beaten and kidnapped Shamil Abdurashidov, 33, the director of the subsidiary enterprise "Dagselkhozkhimiya", his brother Khizri Abdurashidov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Valery Ponomarenko, a resident of Adygea and a champion of the Beijing Paralympic Games 2008 in shooting, is a member of the Russian delegation to London to the 14th Paralympic Games.

The oppositional "Green Party" will not participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia, since it believes that the "Georgian Dream", the oppositional coalition of businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, has more chances to win. This was announced today by Georgy Gachechiladze, the party leader.

During more than two weeks, Russian brigades, equipped with all-terrain vehicles, necessary supplies and medical equipment for conducting radiation and laboratory examinations, ultrasound and electrocardiogram, carried out clinical examination of the population of the Gali District of Abkhazia. At present, the mobile transport hospital is deployed in the town of Ochamchira and it already conducts there the examination of patients; and in September, it will go to the town of Tkuarchal.

In Chechnya, All-Russian competitions in parachuting for the Akhmat Kadyrov Cup have been completed. The competitions were attended by athletes from various regions of Russia and paratroopers from Ukraine, Serbia, and Montenegro. In the team competitions, the best results were achieved by the women's group "Caucasus".

All four persons, perished in the flooding of the village of Novomikhailovsky of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory have been identified. This was reported today by the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia constructs water pipe lines in the villages of the republic, both those which were affected in the event of 2008 and those which were deprived of the centralized water supply during last 20 years.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan started the trial against seven residents of the republic, who earlier surrendered under guarantees of the President of Dagestan and the commission to assist in adaptation to civilian life of persons, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities.

Late in the evening of August 23 and at night of August 24, after the football match between the "Anji" FC and the A3 FC in Moscow, several clashes occurred between supporters of the Dagestani FC and local nationalist fans of the Moscow FCs.

In Sochi, tenants of the building No. 23 in Jan Fabricius Street claim violation of their rights and attempts of using force, committed by court marshals to evict them from the house they own because of plans to build the Olympic facilities.

The Chief Investigatory Department of the Armenian Police has presented details of the incident at the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, where Vage Avetyan, the military doctor, perished as a result of fight. According to investigators, the quarrel between the staff members of the restaurant and the military doctors erupted after a waiter reproved clothes of Vage Avetyan.

On August 23, the delegation of representatives of the Circassian Diaspora from Turkey, Jordan and Syria, consisting of 22 persons, arrived in Kabardino-Balkaria. In the office of the International Circassian Association, located in Nalchik, the delegation met the public of the republic.

In the Rostov Region, the fact of distribution of letters containing threats against court officials and their family members is being checked. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Rostov Region.

On August 23, the Nizami District Court of Baku completed the trial against journalist Faramaz Allakhverdiev, known as Faramaz Novruzoglu. The Court found him guilty of inciting riots and illegal crossing of the state border and sentenced him to 4.5 years of imprisonment in a high security penal colony.

The attack on the fans of the "Anji" FC, which occurred on August 22 in Moscow Avenue near the "McDonald's" Cafe in Saint Petersburg, is not of interethnic nature. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

In Tskhinvali, the commission on legality and legitimacy of distribution of housing in the micro-district "Moskovsky" has prepared a package of documents on violations in the procedure of distribution and access to housing, and it intends to bring them to the prosecutor's office in the near future.

Today, the Moscow City Court granted the motion of investigators and extended the arrest of Yusup-Khadji Temerkhanov, accused of murdering ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov, until December 10.

Today, the court session in the case on the death of contractor officer Artak Nazaryan has continued the phase of consideration of the motions. The party victim again claimed forgeries in the course of the work of investigators and offered to institute criminal proceedings against them. The prosecutor opposed the motion.