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Shalva Ramishvili, journalist of an independent Georgian TV company "Maestro", and the company's cameraman were detained in Kvareli district of Eastern Georgia, in the territory of a vineyard belonging to Mikhail Saakashvili. The Georgian human rights activists estimated the journalists' detention as a pressure upon free mass media and demand investigation on the incident.

The military reported loss of two more soldiers of statutory service after Russian-Byelorussian manoeuvres "Union Shield-2011" which passed off in "Ashuluk" firing range, Astrakhan region.

Religious Capitul (board) of the Finnish town of Espoo decided to suspend pastor Yuha Molari from office for three months for criticism of "Kavkaz Center" web-site.

The project "Week of Freedom" launched on September 21 was completed on September 28, the International Day of Freedom of Information with awarding the annual prize of the Freedom of Information Centre (FIC) "Golden Key and Rusty Lock" with assistance of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Albert Auesovich Tutov was kidnapped in Tyrniauz, Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria. This was reported by Fatima Talovna Ulimbasheva, resident of Baksan district of the republic. The young man's relatives are afraid that members of the top brass were involved in the abduction.

Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of eight defendants in the case on the explosion in the Moscow shooting club "Object", which occurred on December 31, 2010, until the end of December this year, Ekaterina Korotova, the press secretary of the court, reports.

In the west of Ingushetia, the Federal Migration Service (FMS) detained 18 Vietnamese nationals, illegally residing in the territory of Russia.

The Azerbaijani Department of the Ministry of Taxes has demanded from Shirin Djafari, the founder and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Gyundem Khabar" (News of Day), to pay his tax debts in the amount of 107,000 manats (about 130,000 US dollars).

Through the mediation of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organization for Migration, Armenia has passed over to the third party the last Azerbaijani prisoner of was (POW) - Roman Novruz oglu Guseinov. According to the Armenian party, eight citizens of Armenia are still in Azeri captivity.

The Moscow City Court has upheld the extension until December 7 the custody of Rustam Makhmudov, accused of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the press service of the court reports.

On October 1, the Society "Memorial" opens its new Moscow house, purchased and equipped with the help of Russian and foreign sponsors. On the housewarming day, employees will show the interior for all the guests, announce their future programs, expose the gathered museum and archive collections and tell about new opportunities and services of their organization.

According to the latest data, the explosion of a car in Dagestan killed eight persons, including an 11-year-old girl.

Hearing of a case on a lawsuit of nine youth organizations and branches of political parties against Public TV and Radio Company (PTRC) under the chairmanship of judge Metanet Gajieva started in Yasamal district court of Baku.

On September, 27, the first youth volunteer club "I am a Volunteer" opened in Rostov-on-Don.

On September, 27, during a trial on the case of gunmen's assault at Nalchik in autumn, 2005, in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, three witnesses who at the moment of the assault were servicemen of the frontier department which underwent the gunmen's attack bore evidence.

As reported by refugees from North Ossetia and Chechnya, on September 24, in the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia, an attempt was made to force them out from a temporary accommodation centre (TAC). Under the order of the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the internally displaced persons (IDPs) should move out of their adapted premises before September 30. The republic's authorities promise to pay 5000 roubles monthly to every family for renting some housing; however, refugees say that this money is not enough.

A resident of Kizlyar (Dagestan) Zaur Omarov complains that for more than a month he cannot see his brother Omar, detained as a suspected helper. Zaur told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that investigators are against their meeting.

The Bar Association held a rally in front of the Supreme Court of Georgia in protest against detention of lawyer Tariel Murmanashvili, accused of a fraud.

Khyakimeldost Mekhtiev, the regional correspondent of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), sentenced by the Sharur District Court to a fine for illegal use of electricity, intends to appeal against this decision.

The action was aimed against the Russian parliamentary elections to be held on December 4, 2011. The picketers explained passers-by that the opposition offers to hold alternative elections on that very day.