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As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, a serviceman of the Karabakh Army was lost in a skirmish in the contact line of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

A native of Chechnya, aged 24, suspected of committing the explosion in one of hotels in Copenhagen on September 10, was detained In Denmark. A map was found on him of the second-largest Danish city of Arhus, where the address of the editorial board of the newspaper "Jyllands-Posten", which published 12 caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in 2005, was marked.

The reconciliation that took place in the end of August this year between President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the Yamadaev clan, represented by Isa Yamadaev, has received further development. Isa has stated that he is ready to pardon one of the two convicts in Dubai sentenced for murdering Sulim Yamadaev - Makhdi Lorniya, Ramzan Kadyrov's personal horseman.

Maikop municipal court had a session on administrative material from Rospotrebnadzor concerning a non-government educational organization "Beriozka Plus" where a mass poisoning of children had been registered.

Today, a number of Armenian mass media have published reports that the officer, whose mockeries at soldiers had been videoed and placed on the Internet on September 11, was identified and detained. However, his name is not disclosed yet, while the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia neither confirms nor refutes the information.

Kaspiysky Department of Interior Affairs reported that a militia officer had been shot down by some strangers in the evening of September, 16, near the reception room of one of the hospitals of Kaspiysk, Dagestan.

Irina Kolesnikova who arrived in Sochi together with a group of other women from Krasnodar on September, 16, in order to inform Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on raider's seizures of enterprises in Krasnodar region was released my militiamen four hours after detention.

Ahmed Zakaev, Chechen separatists' emissary, announced for federal search by Russia has been detained by Polish police.

On September, 16, residents of Volgodonsk, Rostov region, paid tribute to the victims of the act of terror which took place eleven years ago.

On September 15, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began considering the claim of six Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The claimants state violation of their civil rights in 1991-1992 during the Karabakh war.

On September 15, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began considering the claim lodged by citizen of Armenia Minas Sarkisyan against Azerbaijan. The applicant states violation of his civil rights during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

By now, the presence in Poland of Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, who is in international search, has been confirmed by his assistant Aslambek Kekharsaev, representative of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Poland, who had earlier refuted the information that appeared in the morning in Polish media that Zakaev had already arrived in Warsaw.

The Russians who had lost their housing facilities in Abkhazia lodged a cassation complaint against the court decision, which upheld the actions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in addressing their property issues in this Caucasian republic.

According to latest data, the number of victims of the terror act in Vladikavkaz, committed on September 9, makes 202 persons, the Russian Ministry of Public Health and Social Development reports. 18 persons were lost.

In the course of a special operation, conducted in the border of the Suleiman-Stahl and Magaramkent Districts, five persons were killed, whom local power agents regard to be members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).

Koka Pruidze, former deputy minister of public health, labour and social protection of Georgia, is suspected by the Control Chamber of taking part in a corruption deal at defining the winner of the tender within the vaccination programme.

On September 19, Chechnya will celebrate the Day of Chechen Woman, constituted last year. Khadizha Dulaeva, assistant of the President of Chechnya, is the head of the organizing committee. Residents of the republic treat the new holiday with scepticism.

A statement has appeared on one of Ingushetian militants' websites running that they incur responsibility for the terror act in Vladikavkaz on September 9.

In Sochi, militiamen used force to detain a woman, who came in a group of people from Krasnodar to tell Russian President Dmitri Medvedev about raider captures of enterprises in the Krasnodar Territory.

At the meeting held in Vladikavkaz on September, 15, residents on North Osetia were offered to take care of their self-defense against terror threat by themselves without going beyond lawfulness, including forming a voluntary public order squad.