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On September, 12, a meeting of Russian human rights activists with Prime Minister of Great Britain David Cameron was held in the Public Center named after Andrey Sakharov.

The village of Karata, Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has hosted a rally, where residents of this village demanded not to transfer the agricultural lands reserved for the local cooperative, into the municipality ownership.

Last night a forty-years-old resident of the settlement of Mezhdurechie, Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan, Abdulgapar Valiev was found killed. There were several gunshot wound on the victim's body, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has removed suspicions from the security agents who had figured in the criminal case for their failure to ensure due security at objects of transport infrastructure, opened after the attack at the Domodedovo Airport.

In the city of Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov Region, two unidentified assailants broke windows on the ground floor of the private house and the car belonging to entrepreneur Alexander Singurov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper named "Novoshakhtinskaya Pravda".

In Dagestan, Gulzhanat Guseinova, a resident of the farm of Ukrainskiyian, Kizlyar District, has stated that at night on September 10 her house was shelled by policemen.

The sixth meeting of sufferers from "Olympic" resettlement was held in Sochi from 18 till 19 o'clock opposite the railway station on September, 11.

Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria is investigating the information of unlawful actions of the personnel of law enforcement bodies against detained Murat Bizhev. This was reported by Senior Assistant of Head of Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in KBR Tatiana Nauzhokova.

Natives of Dagestan, residents of the settlement of Novy Yankul, Andropovsky district of Stavropol region, complain that the local court deprives them of registration and dwellings by its judgments. District court confirms the fact of bringing the verdicts stating that it had acted in accordance with the law. The authorities of Dagestan promised to take part in solving the problem.

Ganimat Zakhid, the editor of the Azerbaijani opposition newspaper "Azadlyg", was forced to take his family out of the country "because of security threats." The editor informed his colleagues about it in his letter.

Two unemployed residents of the city of Stavropol founded an underground bank, and for three years earned more than 8 billion roubles, said a source from local law-enforcement bodies.

The action "Packs-Killers" was held in the Tuapse District by participants of the forum of environmental initiatives "EKA-MIR-2011". While distributing their campaign materials, the organizers told people about the harmful effects of plastic packs and packages on the environment, and then offered everyone to take part in decorating a six-meter eco-bag.

After the air crash of YaK-42 near Yaroslavl, which claimed 43 human lives, Russia suspended operation of eight aircrafts of this model; in particular, after the emergency inspection held by the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision ("Rostransnadzor"), the operation of the YaK-42 belonging to the "Grozny Avia" was suspended.

In Dagestan, power agents are pursuing the militants who had shelled the house of a police officer. This was stated by Nikolai Sintsov, the official spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC).

A group of monks from the Tibetan Monastery Gyudmed has come to Kalmykia to take part in the international forum "Buddhism: Philosophy of Non-Violence and Compassion", which will begin its work in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, on September 22 and last till October 2.

Human rights activists have complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of their colleague, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Natalia Estemirova.

Forty children, who were returning by train to Karelia from a summer camp in the city of Anapa, were taken off the train and hospitalized with an intestinal infection. They were taken to hospitals of Michurinsk, Tver, Ryazan and Moscow.

In Batumi, the festival named Golden Talent-2011" is on. It is attended by 18 performers from many countries.

The announcement of the universal amnesty in spring this year, and the investigation by Armenian authorities of the deaths of 10 civilians in the course of the anti-government demonstrations on March 1-2, 2008, have allowed the PACE to state the termination of the case related to the March events.

In Baku, on the initiative of the "Organization for Liberation of Karabakh" (OLK), the "Coordination Board on Conflicts in Southern Caucasus" was founded. On the Georgian part, it includes a coalition consisting of 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and on the Azerbaijani one - the OLK and the Centre for Deportation Victims.