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The former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili was sentenced by decision of the Tbilisi City Court to two months of custodial arrest for the period of investigation.

Practically all the residents of the village, as well as of the neighbouring ones, came to the funeral of Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, minister of the local mosque, who was killed today morning in the Dagestan village of Gubden. They regard that the murder was motivated by religious hatred.

The Dagestan residents of the city of Kizilyurt, who suffered from radiation when liquidating the implications of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, failed to receive their due allowances.

Three relatives of the Galaev brothers, who were arrested on September 27, have been released. The brothers were killed on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations.

The advocates of the former Georgian Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili were not admitted into the courtroom, where his freedom restriction measure was decided.

The several thousand strong protest action launched by the opposition parties at two p.m. at the building of the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi, is over.

On September 27, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia reported about a special operation conducted in Sagopshi settlement of the Malgobek District, as a result of which brothers Said-Magomed and Ruslan Galaev, active participants of illegal armed formations, were assassinated.

Ali Insanov, former Azerbaijani Minister of Public Health, was sent to Colony No. 13 for further serving his punishment.

On September 28, Vladimir Vlasov, Public Prosecutor of the city of Zverevo, informed that the eight hunger-strikers had suspended their protest action.

The Public TV of Azerbaijan will no longer broadcast the religious program "Friday Talks."

In the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, a deceived depositor of the "Social Initiative" Construction Corporation has tried to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge into River Terek.

On September 27, Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-lieutenant colonel of the FSB, condemned for disclosure of state secrets, was delivered from Corrective Colony No. 13 of Nizhni Tagil, where he was serving his term, to SIZO-1 of Ekaterinburg.

The broad international community will soon firmly associate Adygea with destruction of objects of the World Natural Heritage.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by the seizure, beating, and imprisonment of Hakimeldostu Mehdiyev, regional correspondent for the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat, by officials in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic last weekend.

On September 26, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued the trial of the leaders of the Malgobek ROVD of Ingushetia, accused of negligence that had led to Beslan terror act.

The administration of the city of Kislovodsk has again refused to "coordinate" the notification about holding a meeting of protest organized by the city branch of the All-Russia Public Organization "Russian Pensioners" and planned for September 29.

Today morning, Khakimeldostu Mekhtiev, the earlier arrested Nakhichevan correspondent of the "Eni Musavat" newspaper, was released.

Today, the Yasamal District Court presided by Judge S. Ahmedova has held a preparatory session on the claim of Geidar Babaev, Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, against the "Azadlyg" newspaper and its journalist Agyl Khalil.

Today, Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, was arrested on charges of extortion, money-laundering, excess of powers, as well as service negligence.

Many residents of the Republic are dissatisfied with the decision of the Federal Service of Enforcement of Penalties not to deliver the Chechen inmates who are serving their terms in Russian colonies to Chechnya.