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In their comments on the fact that the Astrakhan Court has returned the criminal case on journalists' beating by the group headed by Rifkat Shabanov, Deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, back to the Prosecutor's Office, the victims said that the investigation had failed to clear out a number of particulars.

On September 11, the YouTube placed a video "True face of our army", where young men dressed in uniform of the Armed Forces of Armenia are beaten by a person stripped to the waist, supposedly, an officer. The video has stirred up the country's public, which now demands to investigate the circumstances of the incident. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) does not exclude that the video could be forged.

The Prosecutor's Office of Adygea is investigating the criminal cases initiated against the head of one of the divisions of the local department of the Russian Federal Corrective Service (known as "FSIN") and against his 32 subordinates suspected of embezzling one million roubles from the state budget.

The party of the prosecution in the case initiated by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", accused of slander, has summoned several witnesses to the session of the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, who stated that there were no grounds to accuse Kadyrov of any prejudiced attitude to human rights defenders.

Victor Tender was found guilty of attacking human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov, who presented the interests of ex-militia major Alexei Dymovskiy, and sentenced to one year of a high security colony.

Law enforcement organs of Ingushetia reported that Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of Nasir-Kort mosque, has been most probably attempted at for his speeches against representatives of armed underground.

Investigators began criminal proceedings against the personnel of Belorechenskaya juvenile colony in Krasnodar territory where mass disturbance with a participation of some tens of convicts had taken place, supposing that they had been provoked by the actions of the youth custody center personnel.

Republican law enforcement organs reported that a militiaman perished and another one got wounded during an attempt of detention of an group of gunmen near the settlement of Nohch-Keloy, Shatoy district of Chechnya.

A district militiaman of Kyzil-jurt was hospitalized after an explosion of an explosive device under the floor of his car in the settlement of Staroye Miatli.

At the trial by Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechen Republic's claim against Oleg Orlov, Head of "Memorial" Human Rights Center, on September, 13 judge Morozova declined the applications submitted by Henry Reznik, the defendant's attorney.

Adzharia plans to use strict measures against polluting of sea beaches. As stated on September 11 by President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili at the travel sitting of the government of Georgia in Batumi, infringers of the law will be fined by 500 laris or administrative arrest for 24 hours.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has commuted verdicts to two members of the "White wolves" grouping sentenced for nationalism-inspired murders. Alexei Dzhavakhishvili, leader of a grouping, will leave colony one year earlier - after six years.

Today in the morning, Avigdor Eskin, a well-known political scientist from Israel, who arrived in Tbilisi to take part on September 15 in the roundtable "Identity and globalization: challenges and prospects", organized by the Society of Irakli the Second, was not admitted to Georgia.

On September 12, the Somalia pirates, who on September 8 captured a vessel with citizens of Georgia onboard, have established a contact with the ship owner - the Greek ship-owning company "Frio Ventures". This was reported by Sergo Devadze, representative of the Greek party and director of the Georgian company "Greenwich-21st".

The expert's conclusion made by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the textbook "History of Russia. 1917-2009" and stating that the book promotes kindling of national enmity gave rise to plenty of opposing opinions. In the opinion of sociologist Anatoly Golubovskiy, the textbook is a political provocation, while Andrei Shadrin, a colleague of the authors of the book, is sure that its condemnation was "politically customized."

Today, at the court session in Moscow, Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", refused to admit his guilt of slandering Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechnya.

The case of Suleiman Barbakadze, former president of the international society of Meskhetian Turks "Vatan", arrested on July 26, is under supervision of human rights activists, Emil Adelkhanov, a rights defender from Tbilisi reports.

As reported by Abdullah Alisultanov, journalist of the Dagestan-based edition "Chernovik", with reference to his sources in law enforcement bodies, as a result of a special operation conducted by federal forces in Makhachkala, Ibragim Gadjidadaev, leader of the armed grouping named Jama'at "Sheriyat", was liquidated. So far, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has not officially confirmed the information.

Russia has stated at the International Court of Justice of the United Nations in The Hague that Georgia has falsified charges of ethnic cleansings in South Ossetia and Abkhazia in 2008.

The court, which is considering the events on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, refused to consider the challenge of the court staff, petitioned on August 5 by a number of defendants and their advocates. The presiding judge Galina Gorislavskaya has stated that a challenge may be put forward only prior to start of litigation, and thereafter - only on the grounds unknown earlier.