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The first judicial session on the case of the officers of the OMON of the Sochi Department of Internal Affairs, who had started a fight with holiday-makers, has been re-appointed on October 17 because of the failure of the defendants' advocates to appear.

Vagap Tutakov, who was kidnapped on September 10 in the Urus-Martan District of the Republic and released on September 22, intends to get back to political activity.

The law-enforcement bodies of Chechnya and Ingushetia are not going to investigate the case about kidnapping last week of the Aushev brothers, who are second cousins to each other. At the same time, a criminal case can be initiated on the fact of holding the meeting with a demand to release the detainees.

The Aushev brothers, detained by employees of non-established power agencies in the territory of Chechnya and released after the protest action in Nazran are afraid of further prosecution by power agents; therefore, they ask the RF leadership and the international community to stand for their right.

Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Investigatory Committee, recently founded at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, has reported about the progress in the most resonant murders.

The authorities of Georgia have arrested Amiran Giguashvili, leader of the oppositional movement "For United Georgia" and a friend and supporter of ex-Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili.

The court decisions have been received on the so-called "tea case" in relation to human rights activists of the Krasnodar Territory who had been fined for a non-sanctioned tea-drinking party with foreigners.

General Arkadiy Edelev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, has stated in Grozny that the number of crimes connected with kidnappings has dropped fivefold in Chechnya.

On September 30, 11 persons were shot dead in Dagestan. Today, a sitting of the Security Council and a joint meeting with the heads of the Ministry of Defence and the workers of law enforcement bodies "On Operative and Social-Political Situation in Dagestan" were held in Makhachkala.

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former FSB officer, has stated that Lyubov Kosik, his defender in the city of Nizhni Tagil, is working for the accusation and delivers his defence materials to them.

As a result of a joint operation of the Ministry of National Security and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Fighting Organized Crime, accomplished in the village of Khudat of the Khachmaz District, religious literature was confiscated from the houses of several residents and about ten persons had been detained.

A joint report, prepared by the Initiative for Human Rights and Safety, Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Robert Bosch Foundation and entitled "49 Steps Towards Ensuring Human Rights and Safety in Northern Caucasus" has been published.

The criminal prosecution of Khasan Didigov accused of involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

During a week, the girls wearing hijabs could not get to their school lessons in the city of Sumgait (Azerbaijan).

The former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili was sentenced by decision of the Tbilisi City Court to two months of custodial arrest for the period of investigation.

Practically all the residents of the village, as well as of the neighbouring ones, came to the funeral of Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, minister of the local mosque, who was killed today morning in the Dagestan village of Gubden. They regard that the murder was motivated by religious hatred.

The Dagestan residents of the city of Kizilyurt, who suffered from radiation when liquidating the implications of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, failed to receive their due allowances.

Three relatives of the Galaev brothers, who were arrested on September 27, have been released. The brothers were killed on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations.

The advocates of the former Georgian Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili were not admitted into the courtroom, where his freedom restriction measure was decided.

The several thousand strong protest action launched by the opposition parties at two p.m. at the building of the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi, is over.