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Koka Pruidze, former deputy minister of public health, labour and social protection of Georgia, is suspected by the Control Chamber of taking part in a corruption deal at defining the winner of the tender within the vaccination programme.

On September 19, Chechnya will celebrate the Day of Chechen Woman, constituted last year. Khadizha Dulaeva, assistant of the President of Chechnya, is the head of the organizing committee. Residents of the republic treat the new holiday with scepticism.

A statement has appeared on one of Ingushetian militants' websites running that they incur responsibility for the terror act in Vladikavkaz on September 9.

In Sochi, militiamen used force to detain a woman, who came in a group of people from Krasnodar to tell Russian President Dmitri Medvedev about raider captures of enterprises in the Krasnodar Territory.

At the meeting held in Vladikavkaz on September, 15, residents on North Osetia were offered to take care of their self-defense against terror threat by themselves without going beyond lawfulness, including forming a voluntary public order squad.

A corpse of an officer of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya was found in a foothill district of Shali. The officer's body was found in the trunk of his own car. Government-issue weapon and a certificate of a Ministry of Internal Affairs' officer had been stolen from him.

The personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the town of Shakhti, Rostov region, have detained some supposed participants of an international organized group dealing with human traffic and the use of slave labor. According to the information from the members of the top brass the group included residents of Rostov region and Abkhazia.

As of today, the MIA of Dagestan has no information about the death of Ibragim Gadjidadaev, leader of Jama'at "Sheriyat", in the course of the storm of the house in Makhachkala on September 12.

The consideration of the private complaint submitted by the Society of Watchtower, Bibles and Tractates of Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany against the refusal of the Rostov Regional Court to accept the cassation complaint of the foreign legal entity took place on September 7 at the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation.

The prosecutor's office of Poland has issued a warrant to detain Ahmed Zakaev, head of the government of the non-recognized Republic of Ichkeria, should he come to the World Chechen Congress, planned for September 16-18 in a Warsaw suburb. Adalbi Shkhagoshev, Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and coordinator of the inter-parliamentary group for contacts with the parliament of Poland, believes that this congress may do much harm to Poland.

On Tuesday, September 14, members of the religious community of the "Dzhuma" mosque in Baku held pickets in front of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Cathedral of Myrrh-Bearing Women in protest against the Koran-burning action committed in the USA.

Lawyer Gyulnara Bammatova, who suffered from actions of the worker of the drug control service, will be defended by lawyer Konstantin Mudunov, member of the Bar "Lavkaz", where she also works. Now, he is interrogating witnesses.

Poor efforts in suppressing fires results in sacking high-ranking officials of the Volgograd Region; inspectors dealing with terror act in Buinaksk initiate a criminal case against commander of the army unit; a bomb found at the Irganai HPP in Dagestan; a resonant terror act was prevented in Ingushetia; and an explosion in Vladikavkaz took away dozens of human lives, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 6-12, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

It is now quiet in the village of Kartsa, located in immediate proximity from Vladikavkaz and mainly inhabited by Ingushes. Residents note good-neighbourhood relations between Ingushes and Ossetians living here, while employees of law enforcement bodies present in the village inspire trust. In the meantime, rallies continue in Vladikavkaz; where one of them had nearly resulted in a pogrom in Kartsa village.

Andrei Krasnenkov, who is representing President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov at litigation on slander against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", accused Genry Reznik, the latter's advocate of non-professionalism. Otherwise, in Mr Krasnenkov's opinion, Mr Reznik would not have petitioned his challenge. In his turn, Genry Reznik does not believe that Krasnenkov is a professional lawyer and treats his statements as "manifestations of militant ignorance."

Those, who saw the attempt on the well-known Ingush Imam Khamzat Chumakov, refute the statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia that law enforcers had done everything to save the churchman.

On September 14, Karina Kelasova, wife of Revaz Kelasov, 31, who was kidnapped on August 18 in Makhachkala, said that on September 12 she was summoned to the prosecutor's office of the city of Kaspiisk, where she was shown photos of a blown-up car with two scorched bodies inside. In one of them Karina recognized her husband.

On September, 14, European Court of Human Rights acknowledged the state of Turkey guilty of the murder of Hrant Dink, a journalist of Armenian origin, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Akos". In this way the claim submitted against the Turkish authorities was secured.

Relatives of the men murdered during a special operation on August, 28 in Shogentsukov street in Nalchik and on July 25 in the settlement of Dugulubgay, Balsan district of the republic, have appealed to Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center and the Ombudsman of Kabardino-Balkaria with a request to help them get their sons' corpses for burial.

On September, 14, a press-conference was held in Makhachkala on the initiative of human rights activists, layers and journalists of Dagestan. The initiators reported of a meeting planned for September, 21 where demands to force structures to stick to lawfulness and stop their practice of kidnapping would be moved forward.