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Today, the Baku Appeal Court has again reappointed the preparatory session on the case of journalist Einullah Fatullaev on September 17.

The ecological situation in Sochi is close to critical - this is the conclusion of the auditors of the Russian Federation's Audit Chamber, who have revised expenditures on ecological monitoring and nature protection, which had been allocated by the 2009 federal budget in the sum of 208.3 million roubles.

As stated today by the spokesman of the Chief Department for Dagestan of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) the traffic in the railway section, which was interrupted today by an explosion in front of a cargo train, has been completely restored.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia has called the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN GA) to make, when considering the issue of refugees from this republic, "well-balanced and wise decisions as necessary to prevent conflict escalation and address humanitarian problems."

On September 5, a protest action was held in Tbilisi on the eve of the arrival of the ex-head of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev in Georgia. The protesters demanded to arrest him right after arrival.

In Nargiz-tepe, Khodzhavend District, Ali Mirzaev, a resident of the Neftchalin District, blew himself on a land mine, as reported on September 4 by the press service of the local MIA.

On September 5, the investors who had placed their money in a number of construction companies, which later deceived them, as the protesters assert, organized a sort of a protest march in their cars.

On September 5, militiamen and soldiers engaged in operative-search actions were shelled in the high-mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya. Nobody of them suffered; later, they found two knapsacks with foodstuffs in the place of the incident and then detained a suspected militants' helper.

Irina Rezanova, a resident of Penza and mother of Andrei Rezanov, arrested soldier of the Botlikh Mountain-Rifle Brigade, suspected of involvement in murdering Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan on June 5, 2009, has addressed her letter to the Dagestan regional public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" and asked for help.

On September 5, in the city of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria, unidentified persons shelled a car with militiamen inside; nobody suffered, a source in law enforcement bodies of the region has reported today.

An unknown person threw a grenade into the yard of the house of the principal of High School No. 3 of the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, as reported by a source in local law enforcement bodies of the republic.

Today, the residents of the Volgograd Region, who suffered from fires, began receiving lump sum material aid at the rate of up to 10,000 roubles per person, but no more than 50,000 per family, Anatoly Brovko, local governor, said at the today's press conference.

Today, at about 5:45 p.m., a powerful explosion happened in central Makhachkala near the "Dynamo" Stadium. One person is wounded, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

The number of casualties of the terror act committed on September 5 near Buinaksk has increased up to four persons; the number of those wounded makes 35 persons, as reported by lieutenant colonel of justice Albert Kokoev, head of the military investigatory division of the military unit.

Today, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev received a delegation headed by Peter Semneby, Special Representative of the European Union (EU) for Southern Caucasus. Among other issues, the meeting discussed aggravation of the situation in the border with Karabakh.

Today, a boarding school with sporting specialization, built under the joint project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Government of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania (RNO-A) with support of the governments of the Kingdom of Norway and the Greek Republic was opened in Beslan.

On September 3, the Solidarity Day in War on Terror, Stavropol, Budyonnovsk, Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk and other cities of the territory held actions within the All-Russia campaign "Russia Against Terror".

The magistrate court of the settlement of Dagomys, Lazarevskoe District of the city of Sochi, has passed a verdict to seven persons detained in Vardane settlement for protesting against construction of a domestic waste landfill. They were found guilty of disobedience to militiaman's demands.

The mourning actions in Beslan started on September 1 and lasted for 3 days. On September 3, mourning actions were also held in Moscow.

Svetlana Kravchenko, a journalist from Sochi, who was covering the case of Dmitri Novikov, former judge of the Khosta District Court of the Krasnodar Territory, accused of plundering "Olympic" lands, is now receiving threats.