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The murder of ex-deputy of Russian Duma Ruslan Yamadaev can lead to serious clashes between those who support President Kadyrov and their opponents from the Yamadaev clan.

Today, militiamen of the Stavropol Territory have reported detention of several militants involved in the attack on the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in 2005.

A woman of 50, who was a passenger of fixed-route taxi, was killed by an explosion tonight in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

The heads of Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey find it necessary to speed up negotiations and speak in favour of the idea of the so-called "Safety and stability platform in the Caucasus".

Today, North Ossetia has launched an ecological action named "oBEREGAy" (Protect banks and coasts), which is held under the Charitable Programme "Sail of Hope".

On December 11, the Stavropol Territorial Musical College named after V. I. Safonov, located in the city of Mineral Waters, plans to hold a number of jubilee events. This day will be the 90th birthday of the outstanding writer and public figure Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Protest actions are held in the Imereti Valley practically on the daily basis, but September 26 was a "silence day". Therefore, the "green" activists were marking, together with local residents, the trees, which they had managed to save from cutting.

The Kabardino-Balkarian branch of the all-Russian public charitable organization of pensioners and invalids and the Russian organization of victims of political repressions have prepared for printing the Memory Book of Victims of Political Repressions.

Over two thousand persons have taken part in the patriotic action "Ossetia accuses", which was held today in Tskhinvali.

Today, the Centre for Election Monitoring (CEM) has promulgated its interim report about the first monitoring stage of the presidential election appointed on October 15 in Azerbaijan.

On Thursday, September 25, the regional centre for domain registration closed, on decision of the court, the website "Ingushetia.Ru", which belonged to Ingush oppositionist Magomed Evloev, who was murdered on August 31, but a similar website named "Ingushetia.Org" has appeared on the Internet.

Ex-Deputy of State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev, who was killed in Moscow, was buried today in the morning in the city of Gudermes. Sulim Yamadaev was not present at the funeral, same as none of the top officials, Ruslan's brother Isa Yamadaev has reported.

Supposedly, the international transport corridor Russia - Kazakhstan - China will go across the Volgograd Region. The point was discussed at the 5th Forum of the heads of the pre-border regions of Russia and Kazakhstan, which took place on September 21-22 in the city of Aktobe.

Rostov-on-Don has hosted a seminar "Status and Prospects of Renewable Energy in South Federal District (SFD)". It was attended by representatives of Russian and foreign power companies, experts in power engineering and renewable energy sources (RESs).

In Nazran, unidentified persons shelled from their automatic fire-arms the private house belonging to Sulambek Khalukhaev, Rector of the Institute of Economy and Law.

In New York, negotiations took place of Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State. The topic was the cool-down of relations of the two countries after events in Georgia.

On September 25, the Office of the Government of Russia registered the appeal lodged by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. It urges Mr Putin to save the Grushevoy Ridge from Sochi's commercial non-Olympic build-up by including the Ridge into the territory specially protected by the law.

Representatives of all Ossetian Diasporas plan to hold the worldwide action under the motto "South Ossetia accuses!" It will start on September 26 in Tskhinvali, Vladikavkaz, Moscow, countries of Western Europe and the USA.

Today, in the outskirt of the city of Tskhinvali, the capital of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), an explosion took place. Atsamaz Gelaevich Dzagoev, 13, a shepherd and a Tskhinvali resident, who detected the explosive, was killed.

These minutes, the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow is hosting the "Mistrust Day" - a picket dedicated to the ninth anniversary of the "FSB's exercises" held in the city of Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999.