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A homemade explosive device was activated on September, 27, near V.I. Lenin monument located in front of the building of Dagestan State Teachers' training university (DSTTU) in the capital of Dagestan. A source in the Ministry of interior affairs of the republic reported today there were no victims of the explosion.

Unidentified persons opened automatic fire on the militiamen, who stood with his friends at the entrance to one of the restaurants in the city of Izberbash. After the incident four persons were hospitalized.

The statement of the HRC "Memorial" says that on September 24, 2010, agents of local law enforcement bodies kidnapped seven residents of Davydenko village, Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya.

Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has drawn attention to the problem of Alexandra Tanina from Grozny, now residing in a refugee camp in Nazran, who is afraid of losing her housing in the capital of Chechnya. According to Timur Akiev, head of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", the problem of losing apartments in Chechnya is a systemic one.

Today in the morning, the head of the village administration of Kakamakhi was killed. As reported by the spokesman of the local MIA, militiamen managed to detain the suspect - a casualty's relative.

The killer of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is known; he is in the territory of Russia; and steps are taken to arrest him, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), said today at the meeting with a delegation from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.

Employees of the UVD (Interior Division) for the city of Nalchik have prevented a terror act, the Kabardino-Balkarian MIA has reported today. Simultaneously, two self-made explosive devices with a total capacity of up to one TNT (trotyl) kilogram were found in the heart of a residential district of the capital of the republic.

The court in Sochi has sentenced the head of a rural district to 12 years in prison for stealing more than 300 land plots worth over 1 billion roubles.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has not confirmed the diagnosis of "Siberian plague" in two hospitalized farm workers from the Beloglinskiy District, the head of the territorial agency's department has reported today.

The collegium of the Ministry of Justice has amended the "Rules of Internal Discipline in Correction Establishments" aimed to ensure prisoners' rights.

Residents of the city of Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, have addressed their letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and Head of Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov. They ask for help that their sons, who are wanted, were not killed, but arrested alive and tried according to Russian laws depending on the degree of their guilt.

One law enforcement officer perished and ten of his colleagues were wounded during a special operation aimed to search a militant conducted in Chechnya since September 24. This was reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office). Local experts believe that the large-scale operation was a sort of Kadyrov's response to the militants' attack on Tsentoroi village, Kurchaloi District, in late August.

In Northern Caucasus, on September 25, FSB officers detained one of the leaders of the Ingush branch of "Imarat Kavkaz" acting in Ingushetia, the PR centre of the FSB said today. According to the centre, the name of the detainee is Khashagulgov, Issa Lokhanovich.

On September 7, in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, agents of some unidentified power agency kidnapped Rustam Maksharipovich Dzeitov, born in 1982. This was stated by his brother Ruslan Dzeitov, who has addressed today his written application to the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran.

Today, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow continued the trial under the slander claim lodged by Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial". The court listened to evidences of Tamara Kagirova, a member of the Public Chamber of Chechnya. The other declared witness of the prosecution - Human Rights Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev - failed to appear in the courtroom.

On September 15, 2010, in Semender settlement in Makhachkala, Ramazan Sakhratulaevich Gamzatov was kidnapped, allegedly, by some power agents. His relatives addressed for help to human rights defenders.

According to a local representative of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (STSI), four people perished and five were injured, a nine months old baby and a child of four among them, as a result of a road traffic accident in Kochiubey district of Stavropol region.

On September 26, in the foothill Shali District of Chechnya, two local residents were detained; according to law enforcement officers, they had kidnapped and forcibly kept a local resident.

The stuff of Plenipotentiary under the President in North-Caucasian Federal district are creating a TV channel devoted to Northern Caucasus in cooperation with the All-Russian TV and radio broadcasting company (ARTRC), Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary in the district under the President reported at the meeting with representatives of the leading mass media in Northern Caucasus on September, 24.

In the South-West of Chechnya Said-Arbi Tsurayev, a local resident, a famous singer's brother, was detained for suspicion of involvement in armed underground's activities, according to the information from his relations who are sure of his innocence. Law enforcement bodies of the republic have produced no comment on this message, however they reported detention of two supposed gunmen who had attempted to commit an act of terror.