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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.

On September 4, Budapest hosted an action "We're sorry, Armenia!" where people protested against Hungary's decision to give Ramil Safarov out to Azerbaijan.

Last week, on August 27-September 2, 2012, at least 50 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 29 persons were killed, and 21 wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

The Children's Hospital of the Stavropol Territory, where a teenager perished as a result of inflammation of the hyperbaric chamber, faces a fine of 100,000-150,000 roubles for the violations revealed. This was reported by the "Roszdravnadzor" (Russian Federal Service on Surveillance in Health Care).

In Rostov-on-Don, the opposition rally at Theatre Square gathered more than 100 persons. Half of them were representatives of opposition movements and parties, the others young people with posters reading: "We are against revolution" and "We are for reforms and stability".

Today, in Makhachkala, the central square in front of the complex of buildings of Dagestani government, gathered relatives and friends of Sirajuddin Khasaev, who on September 3 was repeatedly kidnapped by unidentified armed men straight out of the hospital. The gathered relatives demand that the authorities should find the whereabouts of the kidnapped man. This was reported by his wife Zaira Khasaeva.

The Chairperson of district Election Committee of Akhalkalaki (Samtskhe-Djavaheti district of Georgia) was beaten up by members of the Committee. The reasons of the incident are currently being clarified, Central Election Committee of the country reported.

On September, 3, a meeting was held in Moscow near the Russian State University (RSU) of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin under the slogan "We are different but we are all together against terrorism". It was organized by the management of RSU with the support of Moscow Government and Union of students' communities and timed to the Day of solidarity in the struggle against international terrorism and Day of memory of victims of the tragedy in Beslan.

A citizens' group "Protection of Teghut" started an action "Mine or life" during which the first online market of honey from peasants of the settlements of Tegut and Shnokh, Lori district, was organized. According to the organizers, the action is aimed at promotion of the idea of an alternative way of development of the settlements of Lori district.

Magomed Magomedov reported disappearance of Ahmed Magomedov, resident of the settlement of Maidanskoye, to law enforcement bodies, representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan informed.

Swimmer Natali Pronina won two silver medals on the 100 meters distance free style swimming and 200 meters medley relay at the Paralympic Games in London.

In Ingushetia, four out of five persons, convicted after the incident, which occurred on September 1 in the yard of the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Ingushetia, had served their administrative penalties, and they had been released. Another convict Ali Khazbiev, a brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist, an activist of the "PARNAS" Party, remains in custody and receives medical treatment at the Republic's Clinical Hospital.

Kabardino-Balkaria held the solemn events to celebrate the 185th anniversary of Balkaria's voluntary entry and the 455th anniversary of Kabarda's voluntary entry into Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Ilgar Rzaev, an activist of the oppositional "Open Society" Party (OSP) and a volunteer of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), was sentenced in Azerbaijan to 2 years in prison. Azerbaijani human rights activists and NGOs find the verdict "politically motivated."

Residents Buinaksk-relatives of the kidnapped Sirajuddin Khasaev, who was found in a hospital in Makhachkala, claim that he was kidnapped again. In this regard, they plan to block the federal highway.

Svetlana Reiter, a correspondent for the "Esquire" magazine, claims that she was summoned for questioning to the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) in the context of her article concerning disappearances in Chechnya and the inaction of the authorities, where the statement of Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Committee Against Torture, was mentioned.

Iran has freed from prison two young Azerbaijani poets - Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, said Mail Gadjizade, Shakhriyar's father.