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The Volgograd Regional Court has granted the appeal lodged by advocates of Nikolai Parshin, an MP of the Russian State Duma, against the decision of the Tsentralny District Court to put him in custody.

Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the Dagestani branch of the Russian Pension Fund, was arrested in absentia for two months by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. His defence asked to leave him at large on bail of 5 million roubles; however, the court ruled in favour of investigators.

According to investigators, the defendants are involved in undermining the car of Magomedsaid Gadjiev, Chief of the Inter-District FSB Department for the Karabudakhkent District, who later died in hospital. They are also accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

The campaign for the election of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban, by the name of the main river) is passive, while propaganda materials of candidates for deputies are spread uncontrollably and in huge volumes, causing irritation, said local residents.

On September 11, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Spitak, Ashtarak, and Yerevan will hold protest actions against the increase in electricity tariff. However, the Yerevan Mayor's Office crossed out Bagramyan Avenue from the planned route of the rally-march. This was reported by Maxim Sargsyan, a member of the initiative group "No to robbery!"

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has called unacceptable the insulting statements made by the Chechen leader with regard to the judge and the public prosecutor in connection with the fact that the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court had banned the book based on quotations from the Koran.

Magomed Khidirov, Imam of the Sufi mosque in the village of Novy Kurush, who was shot dead in the morning of September 9, had entered no conflicts with followers of the Salafi trend of Islam. This was reported by local residents.

In Sochi, a unit of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has saved a 77-year-old woman, who had lain unconscious in her apartment for a few days. There are many cases in the city, when elderly people faint in their closed apartments, but rescuers not always manage to help them, while the city has no residential home for the elderly, where such lonely people could be placed, said a source from the social protection service.

The Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions Development and Human Rights will consider a draft appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with the request to allow the reception of Syrian Circassians. According to Maxim Shevchenko, the initiator of the appeal, at present, refugees face challenges when trying to resettle, including challenges arising from the lack of quotas.

At the trial in the case of the murder of journalist Malik Akhmedilov, the court has questioned Ali Kamalov, Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Dagestan, as a prosecution witness. The next court session is scheduled for September 11.

Valid Motsaev, the successor to the killed leader of the militant grouping in Khasavyurt, tries to earn credibility by massacres, the law enforcement agencies believe.

The lawyer Elena Denisenko was taken off the bus by employees of the GIBDD (traffic police) at the checkpoint located on the administrative border of Dagestan and Stavropol Territory.

As reported by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, a complaint has been prepared against the decision of the court of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to treat as extremist the book "Appeal (Dua) to Allah, Its Value and Place in Islam".

Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the Dagestani branch of the Russian Pension Fund, has been put on the international wanted list. The court has ruled in absentia to place him in custody, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Courts of Armenia are considering several cases on bankruptcy of the chemical complex "Vanadzor-Khimprom", while factory workers seek a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia Ovik Abramyan.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has started the investigation into the murder of 34-year-old Imam Magomed Khidirov, who was shot dead in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.

Three weeks before the today's murder of Imam Magomed Khidirov in Dagestan, Zamirbek Makhmutov, Deputy Imam of the aul (village) of Irgakly, was killed in the Stavropol Territory.

Today, Imam Magomed Khidirov has been shot dead in front of the local mosque in the village of Novy Kurush of the Khasavyurt District.

The city administration of Buynaksk declares that the election of the City Mayor was held in accordance with the law. The fact that the Mayor was elected by deputies of the old convocation may perplex, although the election results were predictable. This was stated by Absalitdin Murzaev, Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Kumyk people.

For the recent several years, the year of 2015 has become an unprecedented by the number of cases of the use of force against media representatives in Armenia. In the first half of 2015, 19 of such cases were recorded, and other 50 cases are recorded as the facts of pressure on journalists. This was reported by Ashot Melikyan, the head of the Committee for Protection of Freedom of Speech.