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The US State Department reminded American citizens that Russia still has a "heightened danger of terror acts."

Tonight, Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Health of Azerbaijan has again been transferred from the Ministry of Justice hospital to the pre-trial prison of the Ministry of National Security.

The Volgograd Region has completely eliminated the implications of the fire in the section of the "Asia-Centre" high-pressure main gas pipeline.

Abkhazia has suspended all its negotiations with Georgia until the latter withdraws its troops from the Codor Clove.

The current president is firmly adhering to the principle of keeping the status of Adygea, while his basic opposition advocated the accession of Adygea to the Krasnodar region.

At a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council in the "Novo-Ogaryovo" Residence, president Vladimir Putin disclosed those standing behind the espionage scandal in Georgia and arrests of Russian servicemen.

Turkey has to acknowledge its mistakes of the past including the 1915 genocide of Armenians in order to join the European Union, President of France Jacques Chirac who is paying his state visit to Armenia stated at the press conference on Saturday, September 30, in Yerevan.

The Tverskoj Court of Moscow has found legitimate the three-day arrest ruling of Lev Ponomaryov, head of the Public Movement "For Human Rights."

Today at 5:30 p.m., in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in the centre of Moscow, a picket against the war in Chechnya was organized by the Committee of Antiwar Actions and Antiwar Club.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported earlier that a picket was organized on September 3 in Moscow near the Solovki Boulder in memory of Beslan events.

The children of the militants who perished during October events in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, have begun to receive social pensions at a rate of 1035 roubles per month.

On September 30, Academician Eldar Salaev will leave for Turkey to continue his treatment.

It has become known to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that another life-term prisoner has committed suicide in Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan).

Yesterday, September 26, Judge Natalia Dyatlova from the Moscow Magistrate Court District No. 370 delivered her judgment on administrative cases of the participants of the mourning human rights picket held on September 3 this year "In Memory of Beslan Tragedy," which was prohibited and dispersed by the authorities of the capital.

On July 11 and 12, 2006, the "Renaissance-Moscow" hotel hosted an All-Russian Conference "The Other Russia," convoked by the Action Committee of the All-Russian Civil Congress.

Yesterday, July 14, the state of health of Sakid Zakhidov, the satirist journalist arrested in Azerbaijan, sharply deteriorated, told Emin Husseinov, head of committee for the protection of S. Zakhidov's rights, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, the Federation Council plenary session approved amendments into the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity ", which more precisely formulate the notion of "extremist activity."

The administration of Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan) goes on exerting pressure on the participants in the hunger strike, trying to make them stop it, according to the sources linked with the prisoners' relatives who provided information to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Said Nuri, activist of the "Eni Fikir " ("New Thinking") youth organization, who is under a suspended sentence of five yours in prison in Azerbaijan, has called the sentence on his companions-in-arms unfair, noting that the court hearing was conducted with violations of the law.

Today, representatives of a number of Abkhazian NGOs and journalists disseminated a joint declaration in which they note that people in Abkhazia have enthusiastically welcomed the decision to declare 2006 the Year of Abkhazia in South Ossetia and the Year of South Ossetia in Abkhazia.