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A criminal charge was brought in Azerbaijan against Shirin Jafari, constitutor of the newspaper “Giundem Khabar” (“News of the Day”). He is accused of tax evasion and abuse of authority. The investigation is being carried out by Directorate of struggle against corruption under Prosecutor General based on an appeal of Press Council.

The Court of Arbitration in Moscow registered the lawsuit of “Ostozhenka Business center” limited company of eviction of Consular Department of the Section of the interests of Georgia with the Embassy of Switzerland in Russia from the mansion in Ostozhenka street, No 26/1. This was reported by a representative of the court.

Today operative groups of the Ministry of Interior Affairs and Federal Security Service are carrying out searches in ten houses of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog and the neighbourhood.

Building of the first in Dagestan women’s beach complex has been accomplished at the coast of the Caspian sea, in Makhachkala.

Polling stations for citizens of Abkhazia residing in the Russian Federation will be opened in Moscow and Cherkessk. Presentation of such a polling station was held in Moscow on August, 23.

The rivers of Sagarejo district of Georgia which outflowed the banks inflicted a damage of 600 thousand lari (over 366 US dollars), Head of Municipality Sagarejo Gia Chalatashvili declared.

On August, 23, the first makes of “Lada-Priora” cars were produced in Argun, the third biggest town of Chechnya, at the plant “Chechenavto”.

Salman Ugurchiev, a resident of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, said about kidnapping of his son Akraman Ugurchiev, born in 1984. The father brought his application to the human rights organization "MASHR".

Victims of fire in the settlement of Tsibary sent letters to Victor Basargin, Minster of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, and Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Emergency Situations of Russia, asking to pay them the whole due sum of compensation.

Khadish Ibaeva, the owner of the flat in Grozny, where a special operation was conducted on August 18, told rights defenders that power agents took away the documents on the flat, where she had been registered since 2004, and evicted her from the flat.

Shamil Alisultanov, a resident of Kaspiisk, who had been missing since August 19, was found murdered in the Buinaksk District, said his wife Kamilla Mamaeva. According to her story, power agents had to do with her husband's death.

As reported today by a source from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), the reason of explosion of ammunition on August 23 in the Astrakhan Region in the Ashuluk training range was a spontaneous self-triggering of the propulsion engine of one of the shells.

Today is the deadline of the three-month period, which was provided by the Azerbaijani party to residents of the villages of Khrakh-Uba and Uryan-Uba for making their decision: either to get legalized in Azerbaijan or to move to Dagestan. Forced deportation was avoided after the talks of the leader of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov and First Vice-Premier of Azerbaijan Yagub Eyubov.

80 young people from Karachay-Cherkessia, Adygea, Ingushetia, Chechnya, Dagestan, Stavropol and Moscow are participating in the international youth expert-political forum "Foros. Abkhazia" that was launched in the city of Gagra.

The Armenian government is considering the application of residents of the city of Razdan and a number of public organizations, in which they expressed their concern about the exploitation of the iron mine. According to their story, uranium was detected in the area of the deposit.

The company of the Rustaveli Theatre said that they still consider Robert Sturua, who was dismissed from his post of artistic director by the Minister of Culture of Georgia, to be their stage director. The statement on behalf of the company was announced on August 22 by actor Zaza Papuashvili in front of the theatre building.

The indictment has been approved in Dagestan on the criminal case against employees of the OVD of Khasavyurt, accused of beating the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, said the prosecutor's office of Dagestan.

Abdurakhman Asludinov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal (a suburb of Makhachkala), who was killed on August 18 by MIA agents in the capital of Dagestan, had been kidnapped before his death by power agents, said today Magomed Asludinov, Abdurakhman's brother.

In Abkhazia, the League of Voters "For Fair Elections" has published an interim report on results of observation over the election process of President of Abkhazia.

Bidzina Giorgobiani, the secretary for international affairs of the Conservative Party of Georgia and former head of the Forestry Department, who was detained in Spain at the request of the Georgian party, is at large, said Lasha Chkhartishvili, one of the leaders of the party.