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The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has passed a decision to cancel the 2004 decisions of the Nasiminskiy and Appeal Courts on the claims of Sardar Dzhalaloglu, leader of the Democratic Party.

The activities of the Russian Open Joint Stock Company (RAO) "EES Rossii" and realization of the plans of the LUKOIL Company will inevitably bring to ruin the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, concludes V. A. Sagalaev, Doctor of Biology.

At the process on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga that had provoked mass disorders, the advocates of Chechen defendants have again demanded to return the case back to the prosecutor's office.

22 former miners from Maiskiy settlement in the Rostov Region have announced a dry hunger strike.

The prosecutor's office has re-arrested Khasan Didigov, a suspect of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train who was released today, as his advocate Murad Yunusov has reported.

Over 130 refugees from Borozdinovskaya village, who live in the "Nadezhda" (Hope) tent camp, have started their resettlement to the Kizlyar District Dagestan, where they had been allotted land estates for individual housing construction.

According to the statement of Vyacheslav Shanshin, head of the FSB Department for Dagestan, "liquidation of Rappani Khalilov was a logic end of a complex of operative actions accomplished under direction of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia."

Today at about 6:40 p.m., a special operation was undertaken in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) with the aim to detain and liquidate members of Askhab Bidaev's armed formation. One militiaman and a civilian woman were killed in the skirmish.

Georgiy Kheviashvili, Minister for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation of Georgia, held a meeting on September 16 with Kastrio Islami, Rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

On September 16, Andrei Keilin, who was in custody on suspicion of murdering students Dmitri Blakhin and Pavel Chadin on June 3 in Stavropol, has been released.

Making his comments on the present situation in the negotiating process aimed to settle the Karabakh conflict, political scientist Agasi Enokyan, Director of the Armenian Centre for Political and International Studies, has informed journalists about the deadlock in the negotiating process.

Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, has stated that as a result of operative-investigatory actions conducted under the murder case of Albert Kazaryan, Public Prosecutor of the Lori District, other crimes can be opened, namely, application of violence towards the witnesses figuring in the case.

Iles Dolgiev who was detained on suspicion of committing the murder of Anatoly Draganchuk and his sons Mikhail and Denis on August 31, 2007, has been released.

People from the editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta," where journalist Anna Politkovskaya had worked, have confirmed that Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, was detained on suspicion of being involved in Politkovskaya's murder.

Representatives of the Tbilisi-based international organization "Solidarity Centre" are going to lodge a lawsuit to the Hague Tribunal against Eduard Kokoity, President of non-recognized Republic of South Ossetia.

Local residents of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, Ingushes by nationality, have made a decision to organize night patrol of the village houses where Russian families live.

Two emergencies took place in parallel last night in the territory of Ingushetia. A militia post was shelled in a suburb of Nazran and two children were wounded by an explosion. An apartment of a Russian family was set on fire in Malgobek.

For the first time ever, the Estonian Court, having agreed with the defence arguments, has acquitted the Russian who was detained and accused of participating in disorders in Tallinn after dismantling the Bronze Soldier this April.

On September 13, a bill was officially brought to the State Duma on a special legal regime for the preparation period of 2014 Olympics.