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Human Rights Watch asserts that the situation of anarchy in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone promotes attacks and the atmosphere of fear, therefore, the mandate of the European Union's mission should assume defence of civilians.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has sent a supervisory presentation to the Presidium of the Republic's Supreme Court concerning cancellation of judgements passed on the criminal case against Rizvan Rizvanov, Director General of the enterprise-founder of the weekly named "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time).

Safarbey Mikanba, General Public Prosecutor of Abkhazia, has treated the utterances of Nikoloz Gvaramiya, Georgian Minister of Justice, that his Ministry was gathering materials for initiation of criminal cases against leaders of Abkhazia and South Ossetia Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity, to be groundless and cheap politics.

The virgin nature of the Caucasian Reserve is not only is built up with objects that are absolutely alien to it, but is also gradually transformed into a closed zone. This is the conclusion of tourist and nature amateur Gennady Klyon, who headed a group of Moscow tourists and was careless enough to approach the Moon Meadow in Adygea.

The annual report of the US Department of State on the situation with religious freedom in the world, published in the end to the last week, says in the section on Azerbaijan that the Constitution and the laws of the country guarantee the freedom of religion, however, there are certain "restrictions" in registration and "selective prosecution".

Today, as a result of bombardment, three civilians were killed in the Altiev Municipal District of the city of Nazran in Ingushetia.

The bill of particulars on the case about murdering Anna Politkovskaya in 2006 has been sent to Deputy General Public Prosecutor for approval. Three persons are accused of murdering the journalist.

Today in the morning, in Zugdidi District of Georgia, two policemen were wounded as a result of a mine explosion on the bridge near Khurcha village.

The comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia on the statement of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who has accused Russian Federation (RF) of aggression against Georgia, runs that Russia did not pursue any geostrategic aims, when it was forced to react to Georgia's actions.

On October 2, the European Court for Human Rights will make a decision on the case "Lyanova and Alieva versus Russia". The claim was lodged in connection with disappearance in summer of 2000 in Grozny of three Chechen teenagers.

On Friday, September 19, a resolution was brought to the US Congress with an appeal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to urgently revise its decision to hold Winter Olympic Games of 2014 in Russia and find another place for this Olympiad.

At the Investment Forum "Sochi-2008", which is taking place on September 18-21, Russian regions have already concluded 114 agreements and memorandums to the sum of 14.4 billion euros. The event is actively attended by the Republics, Territories and Regions of the South Federal District of Russia.

Today, the capital of South Ossetia hosted celebrations on the occasion of the 18th anniversary of declaration by the Republic of its state sovereignty. For the first time this year, the Republic celebrates this date, while being officially recognized by some countries.

Even now, 2.5 months after the meeting of Vladimir Putin, now the chairman of the government of the Russian Federation, with members of ecological organizations, the acuteness of the problem to preserve the Grushevoy Ridge near Sochi has been softened a little, but not eliminated, ecologists assert.

This year, the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Russian Railways" (RRWs) plans to invest 180 million US dollars into Armenian railways. Journalists were told about it by President of RRWs Vladimir Yakunin.

The Chechen Republic has finalized formation of Precinct Electoral Commissions (PECs). The overwhelming majority of PEC members are the persons who had worked for all the recent elections held in the territory of the Republic.

The independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia has been recognized by Serbska Kraina, a Serbian ethnic formation in the territory of Croatia, proclaimed as a state in 1991 during the war in Croatia, and Gagauz Autonomy of Moldova.

On September 18, the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, hosted a ceremony of rewarding ladies-winner of the Women's World Chess Championship.

The European Court for Human Rights has passed a decision on the case "Takhaev et al. versus Russia", where the Russian Federation was found guilty of violent disappearance of a 20-years-old men in Chechnya in November 2002. The Court has decided on the compensation for the applicants for their material and moral damage in the sum of 38,000 euros.

On September 19, in Makhachkala, about thirty relatives of the persons who perished during the special operation conducted on September 17 in the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of Dagestan held a picket near the building of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, demanding the bodies to be given out to them for burial.