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Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation will arrive next week to Chechnya to continue de-mining of arable lands in the "Zarya" State Farm, Grozny District.

As reported by law enforcement bodies of the capital of Dagestan, last night unidentified criminals killed the head of Corrective Colony No. 7; his wife was wounded.

In the city of Kizil-Yurt, Dagestan, unidentified persons killed a district militia captain and stole his firearms.

In the last five years, the state of things with democratic freedom has been steadily worsening in Azerbaijan. This conclusion is made in the report of the international human rights organization "Article 19", which was presented on September 10 in Baku, in the Azerbaijani House of Human Rights.

In Pankissi Gorge the fire has captured 40 hectares of forest in the vicinity of Matana village, the Ahmet District.

Inspectors are studying the death of a 16-year-old schoolboy at a physical culture lesson in the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory.

The General Assembly of the United Nations has approved the new resolution on return of forced migrants back to the breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has expressed gratitude to those countries whose delegations have supported the resolution. The Russia's MFA, in its turn, finds the very idea of the resolution counterproductive.

The authorities of Vladikavkaz have promulgated a list of casualties of the terror act committed today in the city central marketplace. By now, all the casualties have been identified.

Lawyer Liya Mukhashavriya, head of the Georgian NGO "Priority of Human Rights", demands that the prosecutor's office, Ministry of Justice and prison administration start investigating the fact of beating prisoners in the Ksan prison, located in Eastern Georgia, which happened on August 19.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has reported solution of the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the Chief Investigatory Department of the ICPO, which was accomplished in 2007 in Moscow. Said Abdulakimov, former assistant of the public prosecutor of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, is named to be the customer of the crime.

Relatives of Svetlana Osipova, director general director of a Russian company, who went on hunger strike in Tskhinvali, are going to hold a picket in Moscow in defence of all the Russians imprisoned in South Ossetia.

Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the committee "Civil Assistance", has voiced a number of offers, when speaking at a meeting of women-peacemakers of Russia and Georgia, concerning joint projects and cooperation of the public of the two countries. In particular, she finds it reasonable to hold post-conflict children's camps in the region.

Two persons were lost in a skirmish that burst out in a hotel in Makhachkala last night. The incident has happened after an explosion that was triggered in one of the hotel rooms.

Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to the leaders of a nationalist group Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy, sentenced to 10 years in prison for a series of murders.

Nobody has officially contacted yet the families of the Georgian seamen captured by pirates in the Gulf of Aden: neither Georgian authorities and nor the company-employer, say the relatives. In its turn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has stated that the "actively work" with the fact of kidnapping.

Today, the Baku-based Business Centre "Landmark" has hosted a conference held within the forum of public support of the freedom of speech and expression in Azerbaijan. Its participants have called to release journalist Fatullaev and bloggers Milli and Gadjizade.

Residents of Chechnya report that relatives of the young men, who went to the forest to join militants, are persecuted by local power agents. Human rights activist note that it happens under the initiative of Chechen leadership, since President Ramzan Kadyrov has openly stated that militants' relatives shall respond for their actions.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Republic of Dagestan (RD) has completed considering the civil case opened under the claim lodged by the territorial department of the "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Mass Communications) and RD's Prosecutor's Office against the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Freedom of Speech" with a demand to close the local weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint).

At night on September 8, in Baksanyonok village, Baksan District, unidentified persons shot dead Federal Judge Dzhulber Bykov.

As reported by Elza Dzhioeva, head of the department for additional education of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), children and teenagers are forbidden to stay at night in public places without their parents.