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Today, early in the morning, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, arson was committed of the rented apartment, where the office of human rights activists is located. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

Within several recent days, special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in the number of three regiments, have been transferred from the adjacent regions of the South Federal District (SFD) and deployed in Dagestan. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent with reference to reliable sources.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has started its investigation into the facts of interrogating by the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security (MNS) of the citizens of the country who gave their votes for Armenian participants of the contest "Eurovision-2009".

Zurab Abashidze, one of the leaders of the Party "Our Georgia - Free Democrats" has announced that within a week that elapsed after negotiations of a part of the non-parliamentary opposition with Ministers of Internal Affairs and Justice of Georgia 10 activists of this opposition group were released from custody.

In the first two summer months, over two hundred violations of hygienic standards and fire prevention regulations have been revealed in children's summer camps of the Volgograd Region.

Today, Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), who died yesterday in the prison hospital, was buried in his native village of Archivan, Astarin District, in the south of Azerbaijan. Human rights activists believe that Mamedov's death will strike the image of Azerbaijani authorities.

The German edition Frankfurter Rundschau asserts that in the context of the hard criminal situation today in Northern Caucasus the Kremlin should think over the idea to transfer the Winter Olympiad-2014 somewhere behind the Urals.

Andres Herkel (Estonia) and Evgenia Zhivkova (Bulgaria), co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) for Azerbaijan, are depressed with the fact of the failure of Azerbaijani authorities of Azerbaijan to listen to the appeals to release Novruzali Mamedov, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", who died on August 17. They have also expressed their regret for the loss of Mr Mamedov's scientific heritage.

As reported by Ruslan Tsechoev, deputy chairman of the government of Ingushetia, who gave the latest data, the terror act at the building of the GOVD in Nazran 25 persons were lost.

At the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, Murat Abazov, an amnestied participant of the attack and now a witness of the prosecution, gave his evidence.

Today, relatives of Emirali Magomedov, 34, who is considered missing since August 17, have rallied in front of the building of the Derbent City ROVD (District Militia Division) to express their protest.

In early September it will be known, whether the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" will resume its activities in the territory of the Chechen Republic. This human rights organization suspended its operations in Chechnya after kidnapping and murder on July 15 of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the "Memorial".

Today, a group of activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus from Sochi, Krasnodar, Maikop and Nizhni Novgorod have started their radical action to defend the law at construction of the combined highway Adler-Krasnaya Polyana.

Magomed Khazbiev, leader of the Ingush opposition, said that since President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has resumed performing his duties, there is no reason to hold the congress.

The European Union (EU) has condemned the act of terrorism accomplished on August 17 in Nazran (Ingushetia), as a result of which 20 persons were lost and 138 more suffered. This statement was made by Sweden, current chair of the EU.

The Ministry for National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan is now identifying the persons, who gave their votes for the participants from Armenia at the musical competition "Eurovision-2009".

In Dagestan, a criminal case has been opened against the well-known lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, accused by inspectors of the Prosecutor's Office of Khasavyurt of insulting them with swear words.

On August 17, 2009, in the Volgograd Region, the court sentenced a group of eight persons who attacked a Gipsy camp in April 2006 in the city of Volzhskiy. Two persons were killed in that attack. The defendants were sentenced to imprisonment for the terms from 4.5 to 11 years.

In Dagestan, today at 10:05 a.m., near the city marketplace in Kizilyurt, a bomb was triggered. As a result of the explosion four persons, two of them being militiamen, were wounded.

The law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic now know the name of a suspected killer of five persons in Pervomaiskoe village, Grozny District, committed at night of August 17. Probably, he was an acquaintance of one of the members of Kalinichenko family. This was stated by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the MIA. According to his story, a briefing on the suspected gunman has already been disseminated among all the law enforcement units.