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Yesterday at 4 p.m. an attempt of a terror act was undertaken on the "Caucasus" Highway between the cities of Chegem and Baksan.

Thomas Hammerberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights, has met Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan," kept in custody at the investigatory isolation facility of the Ministry of National Security of Azerbaijan.

The President's press service informed that during the last two years more than 500 Russian families have returned to Ingushetia.

In Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, the bodies of all the victims have been found under the ruins of the collapsed 16-storey apartment house. Thus, the total number of casualties has made 25 persons.

Ruslan Alkhanov, Chechnya's Minister of Interior, has stated that Musa Mutiev, the so-called "Emir of Grozny," who was killed today during a special operation in the city of Grozny, was a member of the subversive and terrorist group that had murdered several law enforcement officers and was preparing acts of terror against high-ranking officials.

On August 23, the Caucasian Biosphere Reserve, being the legal owner of the lands now challenged by the Government of Adygea, filed a claim to the Arbitration Court of the Republic with a demand to recognize the Reserve's right for termless use of the lands of the Lagonaki Highland.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia are investigating another attack on a Russian-speaking family accomplished in the Sunzha District of the Republic, as a result of which father and son Lagai were killed.

Natalia Fyodorovna Mudarova, head physician of the blood transfusion centre, was assassinated in the centre of Nazran (Ingushetia).

Mikhail Mindzaev, Minister of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia, has stated that the explosion that was heard today morning in a suburb of the city of Tskhinval, which caused an injury of a person, was an act of terror.

At night of September 7 in the southwest of Moscow a fight burst out with use of cold steel arms, as a result of which a native of Azerbaijan died and a resident of the Republic of Dagestan was wounded.

Alexander Arzumanian, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, accused of money laundering, has been released from custody.

On September 5 it became known about the murder in Moscow outskirts of Oksana Kuznetsova, 18, a daughter of Major Mikhail Kuznetsov, employee of the FSB's Special-Purpose Centre, one of the ten special force fighters who perished while releasing Beslan hostages.

A local resident suspected of spreading extremist leaflets was detained in Novoblagodarny settlement of the Predgorny District of the Stavropol Territory.

The policemen of the French city of Amiens are not guilty of Russian boy Ivan's fall from the balcony of the fifth floor, as a result of which he received heavy traumas.

Pole Yatsek Sariush-Volski, head of the Committee of European Parliament for International Matters, has suggested to nominate Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya posthumously for 2007 Andrei Sakharov.

On August 27, 2007, in Vladikavkaz, in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia, Victor Pereverznev, investigator of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation thrashed advocate Irina Kodzaeva.

As of today, the situation in the territory of the Republics of Ingushetia and Chechnya continues to worsen, and the events underway in these republics and in their neighbouring regions can completely get out of control of the federal centre, Aslambek Apaev believes.

Aflatun Amashov: Today in Azerbaijan, 70% of the press editions are engaged in racketeering, 20-25% of the printed media are politicized, and only 5% are independent.

The trial of Andrei Nalyotov, organizer of the meeting in memory of murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya will not take place today.

The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Region informed that under the claims of the Chernobyl accident liquidators from the Rostov Region, the judicial bodies passed more than six thousand decisions on indexing the sums intended for compensation of harm to their health and other monetary payments.