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Vagap Tutakov, former special representative of Aslan Maskhadov in Strasbourg and a deputy of the Chechen Parliament of 1997 convocation, kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10 in the southwest of the Republic, has been released.

On the eve of the celebrations dedicated to Adygea's accession to Russia, along with the whole system of law and order protection activities, preventive security measures are taken in various spheres.

A roundtable was held at the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre dedicated to xenophobia issues. Denga Khalidov, Corresponding Fellow of the Academy of Geopolitical Sciences of Russia, took part in the debates.

On September 21, under the criminal case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, members of law enforcement bodies conducted searches of several houses of the Chechen natives who live in the Chudov District of the Novgorod Region.

The "Riyadus Salikhijn" grouping, which has again declared itself to be responsible for blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, was liquidated and could not have committed this terror act, Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, has stated.

Cases have recently become frequent in Azerbaijan, when broadcasts on religious topics are urgently taken out of television programs. Thus, the ANS TV channel has cancelled a popular broadcast "Allah Khaggy" (Swear by Allah).

The "Day of Mistrust" - a picket against the war in Chechnya dated to the eighth anniversary of the "FSB exercise" in Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999, was held in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, relatives of the defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have filed a petition to A. Yu. Sovrulin, head of the investigatory group of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the South federal District (SFD), asking to increase food parcels to the inmates.

Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has accused President Ilham Aliev of appropriation of "oil" money and setting up the military-police regime in the country.

Satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov, an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is now in custody, has started a hunger strike.

In the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, a participant of the picket of former miners who demanded from local authorities to respect their social rights and guarantees deceased.

Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," has been posthumously awarded the annual American Award "For Development of Democracy."

On September 18 in Moscow, the Independent Press Centre held a roundtable "Obligations of the State before Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the Way the State Observes Them."

The situation in the Ingush city of Nazran, where on September 19 clashes burst out between the residents of Ingushetia who rallied to a spontaneous protest meeting and the militia, is now more stable.

The exact whereabouts and fate of Vagap Tutakov, a former deputy of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10, are still not established.

Eduard Kokoity, President of the Republic of South Ossetia, has stated: "The attempt to hold the so-called 'Peace March' has completely failed."

The St-Petersburg anarchists Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk gave recognizance not to leave; and their criminal prosecution in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

The number of the participants of the spontaneous meeting, held today in Ingushetia with a demand to release the two local residents kidnapped yesterday, is permanently increasing, and by 2 p.m. it has reached some 700-800 persons.

Today, Igor Tkachov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, has stated that the burial of Rappani Khalilov and Nabi Nabiev, murdered in the course of a special operation, will take place without giving out the bodies to relatives.

Andrei Keilin, accused of murdering two students on June 3 in Stavropol and released from custody on September 16, was put under moral pressure.