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President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree to reappoint by-elections to Parliament of Georgia and elections to Supreme Soviet of Adzharia, previously scheduled for October 4, to November 3.

On September 4, in the area, where a special operation against militants was held in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, two powerful self-made explosives were found, which were blown up in situ, a source in law enforcement bodies has reported today.

The "Beslan Mothers" Association of Terror Act Victims has challenged inspector Solzhenitsyn, who heads the investigation of the case on the terror act in Beslan, and sent a petition to Mr Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russian Federation.

Today, a number of leading oppositional forces of Azerbaijan have made a joint statement about their non-recognition of the legitimacy of the presidential election due on October 15.

The leaders of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) have treated negatively the Georgia's actions in South Ossetia and have supported those of Russia, said Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the press conference after the CSTO session held in Moscow.

Seven out of eight regional branches of political parties, which have announced about their intention to take part in the parliamentary elections to be held on October 12, have got registered by the Chechen Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

Late at night on September 4, in Moscow, near the summer cafe named "Artizan", located near the "Domodedovskaya" metro station, where natives from the Caucasus were holding their commemoration party, an explosion took place. As a result of it, one person was killed and about a dozen were wounded.

On September 4, Magomed Khazbiev, chairman of the organizing committee of the Ingush Nationwide Rally, declared in Moscow that Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", was shot dead even before the departure from the territory of the airport, and there are grounds to think that it could be done by Musa Medov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan reports about arrest of 11 persons suspected in organizing explosions in Abu Bekr Mosque in Baku and the power substation located in the Khatainskiy District of the capital.

Today, mourning actions were held in Makhachkala and Buinaksk in memory of the victims of two terror acts - on September 4, 1998, in Parkhomenko Street in Makhachkala and in Buinaksk on September 4, 1999, where an apartment house was blown up in the military settlement.

The all-Russian public organization "Voice of Beslan" demands an international investigation into the terror act in Beslan. Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the organization, emphasizes that the decision to appeal to the international community was adopted because of Russia's failure to hold an objective investigation and inspectors' refusal to institute criminal prosecution against high-ranking officials.

The middle son of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne, detained on September 3 in Tbilisi Airport on charges of a coup d'etat in Georgia, refuses to plead guilty, reports Keti Bekauri, one of his advocates.

Gyulnara Rustamova, leader of the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and sister of Vadim Butdaev, who is accused of murdering journalist Telman Alishaev and UBOP Major Arsen Zakaryaev, has stated that the latter had been long prosecuted her family.

The information about participation of commander of the OMON (Special Militia) of Ingushetia in murdering Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", is not confirmed. Magomed Tsoroev has alibi and is ready to swear on the Koran of his innocence.

In Chechnya, investigation goes on of the circumstances of the murder of Askhab Zakriev, 17, who died, as reported, for the guilt of power agents. A criminal case on the fact of the incident was initiated under Article "Causing death by imprudence (manslaughter)".

According to today's decision of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia will soften the visa regime with the Russian Federation. All RF citizens can now get Georgian visas at all check point by paying 30 US dollars.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is sure that the ruling regime in Georgia is incapable, and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili is a "dead politician." Dmitri Medvedev also noted that the United States should reconsider their relations with Georgian authorities, "because of their aggression, which killed over a thousand persons."

President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega has expressed his support to Russia in seeking the solution of the conflict in the Caucasus through a dialogue with European countries and has declared his recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

A spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has refuted the information that believers are prosecuted in this country for their faith.

The state prosecutor has demanded to sentence the defendants accused of exploding the "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" route bus at the bus station of the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, in December 2007, when three passengers were killed and 17 wounded, to long terms of imprisonment.