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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.

The delegation of the United Nations believes that the needs of the population of South Ossetia for the humanitarian aid "are not too great". These are the outcomes of the delegation's stay in South Ossetia, who arrived there to estimate the need for the humanitarian aid of the population damaged by the warfare.

Journalist Manana Aslamazyan, head of the "Educated Media" Foundation and director of the "Internews" organization, against whom an administrative offence case was initiated earlier this July, was fined by one thousand roubles.

According to the research conducted by the Cato and Fraser Institutes, Georgia was ranked 40th in the world by the parameter on economic freedom. The authors' partner in Georgia was the New Economic School.

The Nariman District Court of Baku is considering the claim against Avaz Zeinally, editor-in-chief of the "Hural" newspaper, who translated Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" into the Azeri language.

The investigatory bodies of Ingushetia are clearing out the circumstances of an armed attack on the militaries of the federal troops, as a result of which four employees of the Russian MIA were lost.

Today, the Parliament of Georgia has made a decision to prolong the state of emergency in those regions of Georgia, where Russian troops are still present, including the peacekeeping forces, till October 3, 2008.

The fact of keeping certain natives of Ingushetia in an underground prison as a vengeance for the tragedy in Beslan is a "provocation of special agencies", said Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" organization, making comments on the case of Magomed Khamkhoev's kidnapping.

Sergey Lavrov, head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, spoke today to the Council of Federation and said that the recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia did not create any precedent for Transdniestria and Nagorno-Karabakh.