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According to the statement of Vyacheslav Shanshin, head of the FSB Department for Dagestan, "liquidation of Rappani Khalilov was a logic end of a complex of operative actions accomplished under direction of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia."

Today at about 6:40 p.m., a special operation was undertaken in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) with the aim to detain and liquidate members of Askhab Bidaev's armed formation. One militiaman and a civilian woman were killed in the skirmish.

Georgiy Kheviashvili, Minister for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation of Georgia, held a meeting on September 16 with Kastrio Islami, Rapporteur of the Monitoring Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

On September 16, Andrei Keilin, who was in custody on suspicion of murdering students Dmitri Blakhin and Pavel Chadin on June 3 in Stavropol, has been released.

Making his comments on the present situation in the negotiating process aimed to settle the Karabakh conflict, political scientist Agasi Enokyan, Director of the Armenian Centre for Political and International Studies, has informed journalists about the deadlock in the negotiating process.

Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, has stated that as a result of operative-investigatory actions conducted under the murder case of Albert Kazaryan, Public Prosecutor of the Lori District, other crimes can be opened, namely, application of violence towards the witnesses figuring in the case.

Iles Dolgiev who was detained on suspicion of committing the murder of Anatoly Draganchuk and his sons Mikhail and Denis on August 31, 2007, has been released.

People from the editorial board of the "Novaya Gazeta," where journalist Anna Politkovskaya had worked, have confirmed that Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, was detained on suspicion of being involved in Politkovskaya's murder.

Representatives of the Tbilisi-based international organization "Solidarity Centre" are going to lodge a lawsuit to the Hague Tribunal against Eduard Kokoity, President of non-recognized Republic of South Ossetia.

Local residents of the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, Ingushes by nationality, have made a decision to organize night patrol of the village houses where Russian families live.

Two emergencies took place in parallel last night in the territory of Ingushetia. A militia post was shelled in a suburb of Nazran and two children were wounded by an explosion. An apartment of a Russian family was set on fire in Malgobek.

For the first time ever, the Estonian Court, having agreed with the defence arguments, has acquitted the Russian who was detained and accused of participating in disorders in Tallinn after dismantling the Bronze Soldier this April.

On September 13, a bill was officially brought to the State Duma on a special legal regime for the preparation period of 2014 Olympics.

The book entitled "Law and Life," written by Giya Meparishvili, former General Public Prosecutor of Georgia and currently Professor of the Tbilisi Ivane Dzhavakhishvili State University and deputy of the Parliament of Georgia (fraction "Independent Majoritarians"), was presented on September 12 at the International Tbilisi Press Centre of the RIA "Novosti."

Today, Public Prosecutor Nazir Bairamov has spoken to the Court for Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan at the hearings on the case of Farkhad Aliev, ex-Minister of Economic Development, and other 18 persons.

In the Bieszczady mountain massif near the border with Ukraine, Polish frontier guards detained an illegal woman from Chechnya with a baby in her arms, and then found bodies of three Chechen girls not far from the mountain border.

In the city of Gori (Georgia) active propaganda in underway at schools among 5-8-year pupils to persuade them to take part in the "Peace March" that is planned by Georgian leaders on September 15, 2007.

The "Beslan Mothers" Committee will start searching a new defender after it has cleared out who had threatened their former advocate Taimuraz Chedzhemov.

Presentation of the newspaper named "The Chechen Human Rights Defender" was held in the city of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.