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Today, the Baku-based Business Centre "Landmark" has hosted a conference held within the forum of public support of the freedom of speech and expression in Azerbaijan. Its participants have called to release journalist Fatullaev and bloggers Milli and Gadjizade.

Residents of Chechnya report that relatives of the young men, who went to the forest to join militants, are persecuted by local power agents. Human rights activist note that it happens under the initiative of Chechen leadership, since President Ramzan Kadyrov has openly stated that militants' relatives shall respond for their actions.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Republic of Dagestan (RD) has completed considering the civil case opened under the claim lodged by the territorial department of the "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Mass Communications) and RD's Prosecutor's Office against the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Freedom of Speech" with a demand to close the local weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint).

At night on September 8, in Baksanyonok village, Baksan District, unidentified persons shot dead Federal Judge Dzhulber Bykov.

As reported by Elza Dzhioeva, head of the department for additional education of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), children and teenagers are forbidden to stay at night in public places without their parents.

Natural fires in the Volgograd Region capture dwelling settlements, taking eight human lives and leaving about a thousand persons without roof over their head; Russia and other countries hold mourning actions on the sixth anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; suicide bomber commits a terror act in Buinaksk killing five and wounding thirty persons, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 30-September 5, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 7, the Administrative Court of Armenia has rejected the claim lodged by the Armenian All-National Movement (AANM) - a unit of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) - with a demand to nullify the decision of the plenipotentiary of the mayoralty of Yerevan of September 1 to ban the rally of the opposition, which was to be held on September 17 in Freedom Square.

The defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia, who was sentenced to 9.5 years of imprisonment for a murder attempt, brings a claim against the patrol police challenging the legality of the detention procedure.

The situation around Karabakh settlement and the parliamentary elections forthcoming on November 7 in Azerbaijan were the main topics during the meetings held by Peter Semneby, EU's Special Representative for Southern Caucasus, during his visit to Baku on September 5-7.

According to Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of Chechen parliament, the post of the president of Chechnya will be officially renamed only next April, after expiry of Ramzan Kadyrov's term.

On September 7, the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don held its first session on the case contesting the legitimacy of the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region, which had announced a warning to Konstantin Baranov, head of the regional branch of the public organization "Young Europe", about inadmissibility of extremist activity.

Rostov-on-Don has seen attacks of a grouping of young men, who hid their faces in medical masks on city residents. Unidentified youngsters are beating those who drink alcohol in the streets.

Today, the Moscow City Court has sentenced Sergey Tulinov, ex-head of the Yeisk District, Krasnodar Territory, found guilty of taking a bribe of 3 million roubles, to 7.5 years of high security colony. His defence believes the arguments of the prosecution unpersuasive.

After leaving the post of the head of Kalmykia, which he has been occupying for 17 years, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov plans to get engaged in social-charitable projects and preparation of Dalai Lama's visit to the republic, he said today at a press conference.

Today at 2:00 p.m., the project named "People's Control" was presented in Vladikavkaz, launched under the initiative of the North-Ossetian regional branch of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party.

Gyulnara Bammatova, a lawyer from the "Kavkaz" Bar, who was hospitalized as a result of actions of the employee of the local drug control department, who presented himself as "Magomed Magomedovich Magomedov", is going to sue him, despite the offer of reconciliation that she received.

Russian human rights defenders had a meeting with William Burns, undersecretary of the US Department of State (DoS), and Michael MсFaul, adviser of the US president. Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", said that "criticism on the topic of human rights was one of the central issues" of the meeting.

Experts managed to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber, who committed the terror act on September 5 in the "Dalni" training range near Buinaksk in Dagestan. According to the MIA of Dagestan, it was Zamir Terekbaev, 26, a native of Andrei-Kurgan village, Neftekum District of the Stavropol Territory.

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.