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According to Hadjimurad Sagitov, deputy editor-in-chief of the popular independent Dagestan weekly "Novoye Delo" (New Business), there are no grounds for the pre-inquiry check initiated by the prosecutor's office of Dagestan of the weekly issue of August 27, 2010, where an anecdote was published about two SS-officers joking about smoke from crematorium chimney.

According to Regina Shakirova, a lawyer of the Kazan Human Rights Centre, Gamzat, 34, son of the Dagestan poet Ali Adallo (Aliev), detained on July 5 by employees of Botlikh ROVD (District Interior Division) had no chance to avoid punishment in the form of five days of the imprisonment, awarded by a magistrate judge for disobedience to militiamen.

The today's preparatory sitting for consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by journalist Einullah Fatullaev at the Baku Appeal Court under presidency of Mirashi Guseinov was postponed again.

The Supreme Court has postponed consideration of the complaints lodged on the verdict passed this February to members of the nationalist grouping "White Wolves" accused of a series of nationalism-motivated murders till September 13.

Naida Gadzhieva, a resident of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has addressed her application to Alexander Buksman, First Deputy General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, stating that her son and daughter are persecuted by some unknown power agents.

The inquiry has been completed under the case opened against the teachers accused of gross negligence, as a result of which on July 7 six children from camp "Azov" drowned in the Yeysk sand bar of the Azov Sea. This was reported today in Krasnodar by Vitaly Tkachov, head of the Territorial Investigatory Department of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office).

People began coming to School No. 1 in Beslan since early in the morning; and before the first ring at 9:15 a.m. over 2500 persons gathered in the school yard. Taimuraz Mamsurov, head of North Ossetia, Larissa Khabitsova, chair of the parliament, Nikolai Khlyntsov, chairman of the government, and many republic's officials came to commemorate the victims.

Today, the schools of Chechnya started their new school year with the "First Ring". On the eve, all the general educational establishments and adjacent territories were inspected, and round-the-clock securities were deployed.

The Baku police have started investigating an attack on the well-known sports observer Rasul Shukyursoy (Allahverdiev). As reported by the 4th branch of the Binagadin district police division, currently investigatory actions are underway to reveal the suspect and attract him to responsibility.

On August 31, the coordination board (CB) of Balkar NGOs made a decision to convoke a congress for deciding on the issue of self-determination of the Balkar people. Bakhaudin Etezov was unanimously elected to be the chairman of the organizing committee of the congress. The organizing committee includes all the CB members and will invite experts - Balkar historians, economists and lawyers.

On August 31 in Yerevan, the "Group of Tekhut Protection" held a protest action near the Yerevan office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Activists-ecologists are concerned of possible financing by Russian VTB of the disputable programme on development of the Tekhut deposit.

Reappointment of President of Kabardino-Balkaria; reconciliation of the clans of Chechen President and the Yamadaevs; heat of pre-election situation in Dagestan; violation of refugees' rights in Georgia, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 23-29, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Relatives of Aslan Lupezhev, who was killed on August 27 in the course of a special operation in Nalchik, disagree with the official version about his involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and are convinced that Aslan became an occasional victim of the operation.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh asserts that the losses of Azerbaijan during the combat clash on August 31 made at least seven killed and wounded persons. The Armenian party, as the department reports, had no losses; one soldier was wounded.

The preliminary investigation in underway on the fact of beating of Mussa Takushinov, chairman of the board of the public organization of Abasins of the Karachai-Circassian Republic named "Abaza". The criminal case was initiated under the article of deliberate causing of medium-gravity harm to one's health by a group of persons out of hooligan intentions."

Within the week the number of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE) patients in the Volgograd Region went up by 36 persons, the local "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) Department has reported.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected the cassation of ex-militiaman Anver Ibragimov, who was convicted for beating Eduard Gurtskaya, a native of Abkhazia, to death in Moscow.

Doctor Leonid Roshal, Director of the Moscow Scientific-Research Institute of Emergency Children's Surgery and Traumatology, said that his hospital is ready to take Makhmud Ahmedov, 14, beaten by militiamen in Dagestan, for further treatment. The case about beating the teenager is under supervision of President of Dagestan, the republic's government has reported.

Having banned the oppositional rally in the Freedom Square on September 17, the mayoralty offered to hold the action in the territory adjoining Matenadaran. The Armenian National Congress (ANC) believes this decision to be "obviously illegal".

On August 31, the judicial panel on civil cases of the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the decision of the Leninskiy District Court of Grozny of May 15, 2010, on awarding compensation to local resident Muslim Kulaev of the moral harm caused to him by actions of the inspector of the inter-district investigatory division (IDID) at the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic.