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Svetlana Osipova, director general of the construction Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Astereya", who is kept in Tskhinvali prison, on September 2, went on hunger strike in protest against the charges presented by South-Ossetian authorities.

The development strategy of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) till 2025 was presented by Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary in the District, for approval to Russian Premier Vladimir Putin during the meeting to Sochi on September 6.

Recent events in Dagestan show that the situation in the republic is getting out of control, runs the official statement of the working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for development of public dialogue and institutes of civil society in the Caucasus, passed on September 6.

The forests located near the dwelling settlements of Khelaturi and Alak, Botlikh District, and of Anchikh, Akhvakh District, are captured by fire. Local residents find the efforts of the authorities to liquidate the calamity insufficient.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia have prevented a large terror act planned by militants with use of a terrorist-suicide bomber. This was stated today by Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov in his speech addressed to parliamentarians and the government.

The special commission for reconciliation of families in the state of blood feud, which was set up in Chechnya in August, has reconciled 18 blood feudists. According to the republic's Muftiyat, the commission still has 40 more cases pending consideration.

Magomed-Hadji Aushev, 80, father of Maksharip Aushev, an Ingush oppositionist and human rights activist, who was killed in autumn of 2009, asserts that he knows the assassins. The father is himself engaged in active public work in Ingushetia and does not exclude that he can become the next victim of gunmen.

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.