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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.

Our source in law enforcement agencies reported that last night two strangers in the settlement of Leninkent, Karadudakhken district of Dagestan, fired a shot at a local militia inspector, his wife and daughter.

According to Press service of Armenian Ministry of foreign affairs, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon states his view for withdrawal of the snipers from the front line positions in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh confrontation.

The government of Russia has decided to render humanitarian help to Armenia: 5000 tons of food wheat and 1000 tons of refined sunflower oil. The foodstuffs are already arriving to Armenia.

Khadishadji Magomedov, administration head of Chirkata village, Gumbet District of Dagestan, was beaten. He was attacked by supporters of one of the candidates to the post of the head of this village, the unit on duty of the Gumbet ROVD (District Interior Division) asserts.

As stated by power agents, four suspected militants were liquidated in a special operation conducted in Makhachkala. Two employees of law enforcement bodies were also lost.

Patimat Magomedova, director of the school in Shamkhal village in Dagestan, assassinated in the evening on September 23, had repeatedly received threats, her relatives report.

The sum of 5.1 million roubles was allotted from the reserve fund of the head of North Ossetia for rendering lump sum material aid to families of casualties and victims. The money has been already paid to 10 families of the casualties - 3 million roubles in total.

The law enforcement bodies have reported that they managed to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber, who shelled on September 24 the building of the local division of the Department of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) and then blew himself up at the building of the security service in the city of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria: it was Oleg Mizov, who was earlier in search.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Eduard Gobozov, a Russian citizen and head of the division of army service and safety of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia, to 10 years of imprisonment after he was found guilty of espionage in favour of Georgia.

On September 24, as a result of a self-explosion of a terrorist-suicide bomber in Makhachkala 26 persons were injured, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan report.

On September 24 at 10:00 a.m., Tamara Novikova, mother of the Sochi judge Dmitri Novikov, went out to hold her regular picket at the building of the Territorial Court at No. 3 Morskaya Street in Krasnodar; however, her action was stopped by power agents.

With a 123-4 vote, the parliament of Georgia has approved in the first reading the draft of the Constitutional Law "On Amending and Adding the Constitution of Georgia" at its extraordinary session.

Three servicemen of the Internal Troops of the MIA of the Russian Federation were lost in the mountains of Chechnya in the course of a special operation, as reported today by a source in law enforcement bodies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The statement with criticism of the voyage of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov to South Ossetia was not directed against Evkurov, but against those forces which draw in Ingushetia into the state of enmity, said Aslan Kodzoev, adviser of the head of the republic for interaction with public organizations. He has confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent his authorship of the sensational statement in the blog.

On Thursday, September 23, at about 9:25 p.m., unidentified persons used a grenade launcher and automatic firearms to attack the "Sharan" Hotel in Karabulak and then disappeared.

Patimat Magomedova, school director in Shamkhal village, who was assassinated on September 23, could fall victim to religious fanatics, since she had tried to forbid wearing hijabs by pupils of her educational institution, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Investigation of Vladikavkaz terror act has background of broad-scale public actions; Chechen Congress in Poland was accompanied by Ahmed Zakaev's detention; the Caucasus sums up first outcomes of Sochi investment forum, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 13-19, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria Alyona Shaova, Elena Gazzaeva and Angela Sunsheva have addressed their letter to President of the republic Arsen Kanokov, Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and head of the Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov, asking to prevent convoying their husbands from the corrective establishment in Kamenka village outside Kabardino-Balkaria.