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The miners-pensioners detained yesterday by militiamen near Federal Highway No. 4 in the Rostov Region, are at large and plan to picket the building of the administration of the city of Zverevo. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Valery Dyakonov, a deputy of the municipal duma of Zverevo.

Two huge terror acts to be committed by terrorists-suicide bombers have been prevented in Moscow; now the names of their potential executers are known - cousins Bekkhan Ospanov, 29, and Islam Bataev, 30. It was planned to bring the explosive to the terror act venue not only in shahid belts, but also in jogging shoe soles.

Today, the Board of Elders of Balkar People (BEBP) held a sitting of the organizing committee of the pedestrian march to Moscow.

On September 8, the Baku-based "Park Inn" Hotel hosted a conference "National Movement of South Azerbaijan", organizer by the Congress of Azerbaijanis of the World (CAW). The event was on the problem of ensuring national rights of ethnic Azerbaijanis in Iran.

According to a local resident, in the end of last week, employees of unidentified power agencies kidnapped four residents of Roshni-Chu village, located in the foothill Urus-Martan District. The Chechen militia did not confirm the fact of kidnapping.

The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to withdraw his claim lodged against Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial".

The "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known as "BORN") has disseminated the information that it takes the responsibility for a series of neo-Nazi crimes, committed in Moscow in 2008 and 2009, including the attack on two figurants in the case of the "Black Hawks" grouping, as a result of which Rasul Khalilov, a native of Azerbaijan, was assassinated.

Experts have finished identification of the bodies of the casualties of the explosion at the ROVD building in Nazran. It was reported by a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia.

Some of the local businessmen, who were selling wedding dresses in Grozny, now plan to leave Chechnya in order to sell their goods and payback the debts; and to close up their business in fear of repressions from local authorities.

The Chechen leadership does everything possible for establishing the whereabouts of the people, who had disappeared or had been kidnapped in the course of counterterrorist operations (CTOs). This was stated by President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov during his meeting with Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights.

On September 8, about two hundred residents of Derbent in Dagestan blocked the central street of the city. The reason of this protest was kidnapping of Sirazhudin Shafiev committed on that very day. As reported by Svetlana Isaeva, head of the organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", Shafiev's relatives suspect that he was kidnapped by power agents.

Isa Yamadaev, brother of the Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the special battalion "Vostok", has stated that a sniper's attack on him is being prepared.

Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, has appealed against the refusal of the Moscow GUVD to open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, chairman of the HRC "Memorial", to the Prosecutor's Office.

Maria Rozalskaya, an expert of the Information Analytical Centre "Sova", believes that before the appearance of the "Black Hawks" - a grouping of Caucasian nationals who persecute Russian nationalists, there were no precedents of this sort, and comparing the "Hawks" with the well-known St Petersburg "Red Skinheads" is unreasonable.

Today in the morning, in the city of Derbent, in the eyes of numerous witnesses, unidentified persons in camouflage and masks kidnapped Sirazhudin Shafiev, born in 1971, a resident of this city.

Chechnya shall solve the problem of searching kidnapped and missing persons. This was stated by Thomas Hammarberg, CE's Commissioner on Human Rights, and Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, who arrived in Chechnya on September 7.

On September 8, on the occasion of the International Journalists' Solidarity Day, a group of independent Azerbaijani journalists laid flowers to the tombs of Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine, who was assassinated on March 2, 2005, at the threshold of his apartment, and Nadzhaf Nadzhafov, the first editor of the "Azadlyg" newspaper and the founder of modern Azerbaijani democratic press.

Militiamen and OMON (Special-Purpose Militia) fighters would not let miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo, located in the Rostov Region, to block the Highway М-4 "Don". This was reported by one of the participants of the protest action.

The work of the HRC "Memorial" in the Chechen Republic can be resumed within the nearest weeks. On September 7, the employees of the Chechen branch of the HRC "Memorial" held a meeting and made a decision to restart their work in the republic.