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The book entitled "Law and Life," written by Giya Meparishvili, former General Public Prosecutor of Georgia and currently Professor of the Tbilisi Ivane Dzhavakhishvili State University and deputy of the Parliament of Georgia (fraction "Independent Majoritarians"), was presented on September 12 at the International Tbilisi Press Centre of the RIA "Novosti."

Today, Public Prosecutor Nazir Bairamov has spoken to the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan at the hearings on the case of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister of Economic Development, and other 18 persons.

In the Bieszczady mountain massif near the border with Ukraine, Polish frontier guards detained an illegal woman from Chechnya with a baby in her arms, and then found bodies of three Chechen girls not far from the mountain border.

In the city of Gori (Georgia) active propaganda in underway at schools among 5-8-year pupils to persuade them to take part in the "Peace March" that is planned by Georgian leaders on September 15, 2007.

The "Beslan Mothers" Committee will start searching a new defender after it has cleared out who had threatened their former advocate Taimuraz Chedzhemov.

Presentation of the newspaper named "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" was held in the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

Igor Dzhindzholiya, administration head of Mukhur village, Tkuarchal District of Abkhazia, was killed today at night, at about 2 a.m. Moscow time.

Today, ecologists of Northern Caucasus have held a picket near the building of the Government of Adygea.

Einullah Fatullaev, Samir Sadatoglu and Rafik Tagi have petitioned for pardon to the Azerbaijani leader.

The Russian community of Azerbaijan is extremely anxious about the destruction of the Russian cemetery in the Narimanovskiy District of the city of Baku.

Currently, only one suspect of participating in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train is in custody, and the remaining two - residents of St-Petersburg Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk - have been released by the Prosecutor's Office.

The Prosecutor's Office has not yet presented any official charges to any of the persons detained on suspicion in participation of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train on August 13.

The experts' opinion that was announced on September 11 during judicial hearings on the case of Alikhan Ozdoev, accused of committing a terror act in North Ossetia, did not reveal any mental violations in the defendant.

In Makhachkala, Dagestan, Khizri Mutaev, 1997 world champion in ushu-syanda was kidnapped, as the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan has informed today.

According to special agencies, the person kidnapped on September 10 in Yandi-Kotar village of the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya turned out to be Vagap Tutakov, former deputy of the Parliament of the Republic of Ichkeria.

Pavel Ryaguzov, Lieutenant Colonel of the Moscow's FSB Department, is suspected of illegal disclosure of data about residence address of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper.

On September 11, it is 6 years from the date of the largest and most violent act of terror in human history. A memorial service was held in Moscow on the victims of world terrorism.

The attack was accomplished today in the morning, at 8:45 a.m. near the house in the 2nd Troitskiy Pereulok. As a result the businessman received a heavy gunshot wound.

On September 10, the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic passed a verdict to Rizvan Gutsiev, a resident of the Sunzha District, who was detained in 2006 on charges of taking part in armed formations and an attack on employees of law enforcement bodies.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia continue searching the killers of three residents of the Republic, Gipsies by nationality.