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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.

According to the preliminary information, the cause of human poisoning by carbon monoxide, which occurred in the Baku shopping centre "Bina" on September 16, was a fault in the electric generators. In total, about 150 persons were affected, and they were hospitalized. Most of them were discharged by this morning after they were rendered a medical assistance.

In Sumgait, as a result of the fire at the plant for the production of household chemical products, two persons were killed, two other persons got injuries of varying severity, and one more person disappeared. This was reported by General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan.

Today, relatives of Sirazhuddin Khasaev, who on September 3 was again kidnapped by unidentified armed men in police uniforms directly from the hospital in Makhachkala, appealed for help in his search to Magomedsalam Magomedov, the leader of Dagestan.

In Rostov-on-Don, court fined one of the persons, detained at the protest action, which was held within the All-Russian "March of Millions". The trials against three more detainees were postponed.

About 50 people tried to hold a protest in front of the US Embassy in Baku against the USA-made movie "Innocence of Muslims". The police dispersed the action and detained several protesters.

Actions within "March of Millions" in cities of Southern Russia; celebration of Unity Day of Nations of Dagestan at the background of ongoing conflict in the region; counterterrorist operation in North Ossetia; preparation for parliamentary elections in Georgia; championships of the Russian Federation in sporting and caving tourism in Adygea, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 10-16, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 15, Istanbul hosted the ceremony of awarding the International Historical-Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" with the award named after Hrant Dink.

The regional police are searching a 13-year-old orphaned girl, who disappeared on September 15.

About thirty activists of Stavropol participated in the global ecological action "Let's do it!", which were held on September 15-16 in the form of subbotniks at the Assumption Cemetery and in the forest known as "Kruglenki".

Today, the magistrate judicial precinct No. 103 of the Tsentralny District of Sochi has indefinitely postponed the consideration of the claim lodged by Vladimir Krivosheev, an employee of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "CHOP-REGION-3" (CHOP means a private security company) against Svetlana Kravchenko, the regional correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

On September, 16, festivities were held in Chechnya on the occasion of The Day of Chechen Woman established three years ago. The main celebrations passed off in Grozny. Some residents of Chechen capital complained of traffic irregularities on that day.

Late at night of September, 16, unidentified people fired upon a food store in the town of Khasavyurt, Dagestan. There are no victims or injured persons.

Head of Transportation Department of Krasnodar region is suspected of abuse of authority during performing managing functions in a commercial organization as a result of which the region lost 25 million rubles, Press Service of regional Investigation Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reported.

The Appellate Court in Baku passed a judgment of groundlessness of a lawsuit of Etimad Budagov, press photographer of "Turan" media agency, in connection with beating him up by an official of Mayor's office.

The protesters who took part in Volgograd in the protest action "March of Millions" demanded resignation of President Putin and Governor Bozhenov, city and regional MPs and new elections of all branches of power.

The first verdicts have been passed on the cases related to the riots in the village of Demyanovo (Kirov Region). The local Alexander Babushkin and a Dagestani Akhmed Kuratmagomedov were fined; however, their legal representatives disagree with the verdict and want to appeal against it.

Today, in the village of Khutrakh, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, an armed skirmish burst out, in which five suspected militants were killed. As reported by the spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the leader of the so-called "Tsuntin grouping" was among them. One power agent was lost.