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The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan states that the car, used by the inspector of the ICPO of Dagestan Gamzat Musaev shot dead yesterday, on September 30, by an STSI policeman, was in search. Meanwhile, the Investigatory Committee reports that their inspector not only made no attempt to disappear, but presented his documents at the road police post.

Today, the Sabail District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Araz Guseinov, continued considering the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Witnesses went on presenting their evidences.

Russia welcomes the conclusion of the international commission for investigating the conflict in Georgia that Tbilisi unleashed the war last August in South Ossetia, Natalia Timakova, press secretary of Russian President, said today. Georgia is happy that the report states that the war in South Ossetia began not on August 7, but earlier, said Timur Yakobashvili, State Minister of Georgia on Reintegration.

Russia was again criticized by European MPs during today's debates at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the situation in Northern Caucasus.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has acquitted Mukhtar Agaev, an officer of the Dagestan Department of the Russian Federal Service for Drug Trafficking Control (RFSDTC), accused of organising an illegal armed formation (IAF) and attempt on Deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan Shamol Isaev, on all indictment points. Agaev was set free in the courtroom and provided with the right for rehabilitation.

Today, at about 4 p.m., Gamzat Musaev, senior inspector of the Khasavyurt Prosecutor's Office, was assassinated. Eyewitnesses of the tragedy assert that he was shot dead by the employees of the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate), who were on duty at the entrance post to Makhachkala.

Today, another rally took place in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, where protesters expressed their indignation with the murder of Alikhan Dinov, 26, who was afterwards blamed as a militant by local and federal mass media.

On September 28, a meeting was held in the city of Essentuki of the members of the All-Russian NGO named "Voice of Beslan" Ella Kesaeva, Emiliya Betrozova and Svetlana Margieva with Nikolai Fedoryak, deputy plenipotentiary of Russian President in the South Federal District (SFD), with whom they discussed the issues of the investigation of the terror act, the law on the status of terror act victims and pension to victim.

The ICPO of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the unidentified persons, who placed on June 26 in the main page of the website "Chechnya Today" threats of murder addressed to the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

On September 29, in Baku, a preparatory session was held on the suit lodged by the widow of the perished head of the Talush Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) Novruzali Mamedov against the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice, the Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15. In its turn, the Nizami District Prosecutor's Office has found no grounds for opening a criminal case in relation to N. Mamedov's death in the colony.

Vardui Elbakyan, advocate of oppositional activist Tigran Arakelyan, 18, who is in custody, told journalists about extremely grave health condition of her client. According to her story, after examination by ophthalmologist a serious injury of his eye was revealed. The defender is sure that it was a result of the blow inflicted by a policeman on the young man with the pistol handle.

On September 29, all the defendants in the "Black Hawks" case - the Caucasians, accused of committing hooligan actions and causing grave harm to human health, - enjoyed their last plea right. Judge of the Dorogomilovo Court of Moscow retired to pass the verdict to be announced on October 8.

Forty best students of the Chechen State University (ChSU) and Grozny State Oil Institute (GSOI) have left for studying at higher schools of Germany. This is already the second group of the Chechen students, who will be trained abroad. Earlier, about a hundred of them went to Germany and Great Britain.

According to the Russian Ministry of Regional Development (know as "Minregion") for the four preparatory years to the Olympiad in Sochi, including this year, 1,054 trillion roubles will be needed. In the opinion of experts, this sum is strongly overestimated.

On October 11, Astrakhan will elect city Mayor. The incumbent Mayor Sergey Bozhenov has also nominated himself to the post. In the opinion of oppositional candidates, Bozhenov's supporters are pressing on them by involving criminals and corrupted militiamen. The Mayor's electoral office rejects the accusations, but the militia has initiated a check.

The work of the Chechen Department of the Federal State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (STSI) is arousing criticism by traffic actors. Drivers complain that frequently the highways of the republic are patrolled by absolutely professionally unprepared and incompetent STSI employees, who see their main task to get enriched at the account of traffic participants.

Within the murder case of the Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev, the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) has interrogated Suleiman Geremeev, a cousin of Adam Delimkhanov, Deputy of the State Duma from Chechnya. As reported by an ICPO source, Geremeev was interrogated in Moscow as a witness.

Instigators of mass fight in the Altai Motorized Rifle Division, where recruits from Dagestan suffered, have received their prison terms.

A number of leading opposition parties of Georgia hold consultations aimed to coordinate future plans. In particular, they still demand resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili and early presidential election, as Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party, said in the press conference.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Araz Guseinov, continued its hearings on the case of young bloggers - Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused in hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Witnesses went on evidencing.