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As of today, the MIA of Dagestan has no information about the death of Ibragim Gadjidadaev, leader of Jama'at "Sheriyat", in the course of the storm of the house in Makhachkala on September 12.

The consideration of the private complaint submitted by the Society of Watchtower, Bibles and Tractates of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany against the refusal of the Rostov Regional Court to accept the cassation complaint of the foreign legal entity took place on September 7 at the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation.

The prosecutor's office of Poland has issued a warrant to detain Ahmed Zakaev, head of the government of the non-recognized Republic of Ichkeria, should he come to the World Chechen Congress, planned for September 16-18 in a Warsaw suburb. Adalbi Shkhagoshev, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and coordinator of the inter-parliamentary group for contacts with the parliament of Poland, believes that this congress may do much harm to Poland.

On Tuesday, September 14, members of the religious community of the "Dzhuma" mosque in Baku held pickets in front of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Cathedral of Myrrh-Bearing Women in protest against the Koran-burning action committed in the USA.

Lawyer Gyulnara Bammatova, who suffered from actions of the worker of the drug control service, will be defended by lawyer Konstantin Mudunov, member of the Bar "Lavkaz", where she also works. Now, he is interrogating witnesses.

Poor efforts in suppressing fires results in sacking high-ranking officials of the Volgograd Region; inspectors dealing with terror act in Buinaksk initiate a criminal case against commander of the army unit; a bomb found at the Irganai HPP in Dagestan; a resonant terror act was prevented in Ingushetia; and an explosion in Vladikavkaz took away dozens of human lives, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 6-12, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

It is now quiet in the village of Kartsa, located in immediate proximity from Vladikavkaz and mainly inhabited by Ingushes. Residents note good-neighbourhood relations between Ingushes and Ossetians living here, while employees of law enforcement bodies present in the village inspire trust. In the meantime, rallies continue in Vladikavkaz; where one of them had nearly resulted in a pogrom in Kartsa village.

Andrei Krasnenkov, who is representing President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov at litigation on slander against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", accused Genry Reznik, the latter's advocate of non-professionalism. Otherwise, in Mr Krasnenkov's opinion, Mr Reznik would not have petitioned his challenge. In his turn, Genry Reznik does not believe that Krasnenkov is a professional lawyer and treats his statements as "manifestations of militant ignorance."

Those, who saw the attempt on the well-known Ingush Imam Khamzat Chumakov, refute the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia that law enforcers had done everything to save the churchman.

On September 14, Karina Kelasova, wife of Revaz Kelasov, 31, who was kidnapped on August 18 in Makhachkala, said that on September 12 she was summoned to the prosecutor's office of the city of Kaspiisk, where she was shown photos of a blown-up car with two scorched bodies inside. In one of them Karina recognized her husband.

On September, 14, European Court of Human Rights acknowledged the state of Turkey guilty of the murder of Hrant Dink, a journalist of Armenian origin, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Akos". In this way the claim submitted against the Turkish authorities was secured.

Relatives of the men murdered during a special operation on August, 28 in Shogentsukov street in Nalchik and on July 25 in the settlement of Dugulubgay, Balsan district of the republic, have appealed to Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center and the Ombudsman of Kabardino-Balkaria with a request to help them get their sons' corpses for burial.

On September, 14, a press-conference was held in Makhachkala on the initiative of human rights activists, layers and journalists of Dagestan. The initiators reported of a meeting planned for September, 21 where demands to force structures to stick to lawfulness and stop their practice of kidnapping would be moved forward.

Investigation states that most of those detained on suspicion of involvement in the act of terror committed on September, 9 in the Central market of Vladikavkaz have been released and have now the status of witnesses. Among them there is a seller of the car in which the suicide bomber exploded himself near the market and a girl who had sold the supposed terrorist a mobile.

Ramazan Abdurakhmanov, 27, a resident of Aksai village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, has disappeared. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from his father Isa, who stated that nothing had been heard about Ramazan for two weeks.

On September 13, at the trial dealing with events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, which resumed its work after a three-week break, the court listened to evidences of three victims on two episodes: attack on Centre "T" and Department of the FSB for Kabardino-Balkaria. One of the women said that for the whole day she hid from bullets in a refrigerator.

In their comments on the fact that the Astrakhan Court has returned the criminal case on journalists' beating by the group headed by Rifkat Shabanov, Deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, back to the Prosecutor's Office, the victims said that the investigation had failed to clear out a number of particulars.

On September 11, the YouTube placed a video "True face of our army", where young men dressed in uniform of the Armed Forces of Armenia are beaten by a person stripped to the waist, supposedly, an officer. The video has stirred up the country's public, which now demands to investigate the circumstances of the incident. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not exclude that the video could be forged.

The Prosecutor's Office of Adygea is investigating the criminal cases initiated against the head of one of the divisions of the local department of the Russian Federal Corrective Service (known as "FSIN") and against his 32 subordinates suspected of embezzling one million roubles from the state budget.

The party of the prosecution in the case initiated by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", accused of slander, has summoned several witnesses to the session of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, who stated that there were no grounds to accuse Kadyrov of any prejudiced attitude to human rights defenders.