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The celebrations in honour of the Day of Chechen Women, established last year by President Ramzan Kadyrov, are over in Chechnya.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation requests that Poland delivers Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, who is in international search and who was detained earlier in the territory of this state, and promises to treat him in Russia in line with international standards.

The official website of the President of the Republic of Ingushetia reports that the local government has ordered to restrict the retail sale of alcoholic beverages.

Leila Dzagoeva, who was injured in the terror act committed in the central marketplace of Vladikavkaz, died in a Moscow hospital. Thus, the death toll has reached 19 persons.

According to Grigor Bagyan, head of the State Inspection of food and veterinary security of Armenian Ministry of Agriculture, the results of food expertise in a Yerevan restaurant "Gegama" where on August, 19, 41 visitors got a food poisoning indicated that the cause of the incident has been carelessness of the enterprise's staff which resulted in a staphylococcus infection of the people.

Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of the Chechen separatists, detained on September, 17, in Warsaw and then released out of custody left Poland on Sunday, September, 19 but promised to return soon.

Our source in law enforcement bodies reports that a dead military man has been found in Ingushetia, in a car belonging to his missing colleague.

Irbek Doev, chief of the press-service of Permanent Mission of North Osetia under Russian President reported on September, 19, that the corpse of Zeinab Tuayeva, a victim of terror in Vladikavkaz, who died on September, 16, in one of the Moscow clinics would be first taken by airplane to North Osetia and then to Georgia, her motherland.

On September 19, liturgy will be held in the Armenian Church of "Sacred Cross" (Surb Khach), located on Lake Van. Armenian organizations refused take part in the event because there is no Christian cross crowning the church dome.

Today in Tskhinvali, near the building of the parliament, which was burnt down in August 2008, an action named "Wall of Lie and Truth" was held, dated to the 20th anniversary of the Republic of South Ossetia.

As stated today by Dmitri Kozak, Vice-Premier of Russia, at the sitting of the interdepartmental commission for preparing the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, held within the International Investment Forum "Sochi-2010", by 2012, Sochi will forget about problems in its ecology.

On September 17, Valery Tsomartov and Dzhambulat Ozdoev, ombudsmen of North Ossetia and Ingushetia, respectively, made a joint statement condemning the terror act committed in Vladikavkaz on September 9 by a suicide bomber.

Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, who was not arrested by the Warsaw Regional Court on September 17 in spite of the request of the Polish Prosecutor's Office, may any moment leave Poland. The court justified its decision to release Zakaev by the fact that he had been granted political asylum in Great Britain - a member-country of the European Union.

A number of public and human rights organizations of the Krasnodar Territory have to Sochi to hold their congress. In parallel, they inspect the Olympic objects.

All the figurants of the incident filmed and then placed on the Internet on September 11, showing violence in Armenian army, have been identified and delivered to the Military Police of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. A criminal case was initiated.

Today, several hundreds of young men held a rally near the memorial "Eternal Flame", located at the entrance to the city park, which was blown up on September 17. The lay down 138 roses - by the number of soldiers buried there - to the survived part of the memorial.

Today, Elista has started celebrations on the occasion of the 145th anniversary from the foundation date of the city. The celebratory programme includes a festival of national cultures, youth festival "To My Favourite City!", photo exhibitions, inter-regional festival-contest of variety songs "Kind Neighbours-2010" and other events.

This summer, Nagorno-Karabakh fixed 14 cases, when snakes bit humans; two of them were fatal. This was reported by Alen Pogosyan, deputy minister of public health of Nagorno-Karabakh. The reason of snake raised activity was in abnormally hot summer; and sometimes it is not possible to save people because hospitals lack the necessary drugs.

On September 17 in central Vladikavkaz militiamen detained Azamat Aguzarov, who sharply criticised the authorities at the rally held on September 15. This is reported by the author of the blog "Ossetia and Around: View from Inside", placed on the website of the "Caucasian Knot".

Two residents of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, - Albert Galimov, 61, and his wife Natalia Serdyukova, 47, - disappeared in the mountains of Karachai-Circassia, in the vicinity of Arkhyz.