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Investigation of Vladikavkaz terror act has background of broad-scale public actions; Chechen Congress in Poland was accompanied by Ahmed Zakaev's detention; the Caucasus sums up first outcomes of Sochi investment forum, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 13-19, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria Alyona Shaova, Elena Gazzaeva and Angela Sunsheva have addressed their letter to President of the republic Arsen Kanokov, Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and head of the Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov, asking to prevent convoying their husbands from the corrective establishment in Kamenka village outside Kabardino-Balkaria.

Cattle mortality from Siberian plague was revealed in Uspenskaya village, Beloglinskiy District, Krasnodar Territory. The farm workers are under doctor's supervision there, the Southern Regional Centre (SRC) of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation reports.

Today in the morning unidentified persons triggered a self-made bomb near the building of the Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Nalchik. Under preliminary data, there are no victims.

The People's Party of South Ossetia is concerned about the statement of President Eduard Kokoity about the deadline set up for citizens of South Ossetia in changing their passports: it is planned to terminate the procedure next year, while the Party demands to prolong the term. The statement of the Party notes that the passport exchange campaign was conceived with the aim to deprive the citizens viewed as dangerous for the authorities of their citizenship and, accordingly, of their suffrage.

Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has addressed his letter to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) asking to investigate the facts of attacks on women, who appear in the streets without headscarves. The GPO says that they have not received Mr Lukin's letter yet, while Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, rejects any attacks on women in his republic whatsoever.

The Warsaw district Public prosecutor's office has appealed against the verdict of the court which had refused temporary arrest of Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, Monica Levandovskaya, press secretary of the office, reported on September, 23.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs reported that in the evening of September, 23, the director of the secondary school No 45 in the settlement of Shamkhal, Kirovsky district of Makhachkala, was killed.

On September, 23, Khawaji Yusupov, native of Chechnya, sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment for his attempt at Isa Yamadaev, brother of Ruslan Yamadaev, ex-deputy of State Duma, and Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of "Vostok" battalion, declared his innocence in court.

The active stage of a special operation in the village of Kirovaul, Kizyl-Yurt district of Dagestan, where a group of armed people was blocked in a private house has been accomplished. According to preliminary information reported by our source in law enforcement bodies of the republic, four gunmen were killed, a woman among them.

The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan sent a letter to US President Barack Obama in the context of his forthcoming meeting on September 24 with President Ilham Aliev at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Volgograd Region, which had registered most of the cases of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE), sees a decline in morbidity. However, this year was especially complicated. According to the latest data, the total number of WNE patients in Russia has reached 480.

Akop Ovannisyan, former employee of Armenia's consulate in Los Angeles, arrested one year ago in the USA on charges of forging documents, has pled guilty at the trial. The US legislation stipulates up to 5 years of imprisonment for this crime.

The prosecutor's office of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the head of one of the divisions of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as UFSIN), detained for extorting bribes from conditional convicts.

According to the latest data, when a car was shelled in the Kazbek District of Dagestan, two militiamen were lost, another one and a local resident were hospitalized.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria, which has extended today by other three months the custody of 57 defendants in the case dealing with the militants' attack on Nalchik in October 2005, believes that the grounds to keep them behind bars have not changed.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, chaired by Elnur Gasanov, held a preparatory session on the claim of the convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev against the Baku City Prosecutor's Office.

The political board of the political movement "Amtsakhara" of veterans of the 1992-1993 people's war of Abkhazia condemns the attempt on Vice-President Alexander Ankvab.

The migratory service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO) is preparing to introduce dues for crossing the Georgian-Ossetian border for foreign citizens. Militia Colonel Soslan Tigiev, head of the migratory control of the MIA of the RSO, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to Khavazhi Yusupov, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for the attempt in May 2009 on Isa Yamadaev, a brother of assassinated ex-deputy of the State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev.