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Today, in the village of Khutrakh, Tsuntin District of Dagestan, an armed skirmish burst out, in which five suspected militants were killed. As reported by the spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the leader of the so-called "Tsuntin grouping" was among them. One power agent was lost.

The refugees from Chechnya, who live in the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza" in the city of Karabulak, Ingushetia, plan to go on hunger strike on September 20, as they said during their meeting with representatives of the united "Caucasian Forum". In total, 12 families want to start the protest.

The Chechen native Khusein Idilov, who committed on August 19 a terror act in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, was the son of a MIA officer and a graduate of the Chechen State University (ChSU), said a source from law enforcement bodies of Chechnya.

Restoration of relations with Armenia is a priority for the Hungarian diplomacy, as Janos Martonyi, the head of the Hungarian Foreign Office, told reporters.

In the evening on September 14, in the city of Derbent in Dagestan, unidentified persons shot the entrepreneur Feruz Agaev dead and fled.

Criminal proceedings against Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, were unlawful, and the court pronounced an unfair decision. This was stated on September 13 by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", during the press conference "Fabrication of criminal charges. Yesterday, today, tomorrow". The experts, participating in the event, apart from the situation with Zara Murtazalieva, mentioned several more examples of, according to them, fabricated criminal cases.

Candidates for the Presidential Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights, in the group No. 12 "Protection of human rights in Northern Caucasus, promotion of civil peace formation and elimination of terrorism in North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD)" treat the normalization of situation in Northern Caucasus, the search for system solutions in the organization of law enforcement authorities in the territory of the NCFD, the integration of civil society and the protection of women's rights as priority tasks.

In the case of riots in the village of Demyanovo, prosecution witnesses are being pressured by the law enforcement agencies. This was stated by Vasily Dravert, the lawyer of defendant Vladimir Burakov. According to investigator Ivan Ugryumov, all witnesses were questioned in accordance with the law.

Today, the magistrate court of the Adler District of Sochi fined 1000 roubles each of two activists of the youth branch of the "Yabloko" Party and the project "Occupy Kuban", who were earlier detained in Kudepsta on charges of disobeying police officers.

The initiative group of Tbilisi residents appeals to the authorities of Georgia, asking to find and punish the persons, responsible for desecrating the church in the centre of the capital of the republic.

On September 13, in the Charoda District of Dagestan, unidentified armed men in masks and camouflage tried to stop the car with the money, intended for the payment of pensions.

During eight months of this year, Chechen drugs police officers seized from illegal trafficking 22 kilograms and 244 grams of narcotic and potent substances. During the last year, in the territory of the republic, about 17 kilograms of narcotic substances were seized.

Today, in Sochi, Anatoly Makhnovskiy, a 64-year-old chairman of the territorial public self-administration (TPS) "Kudepsta", was buried. More than 300 city residents came to say goodbye to the civil activist.

Investigators consider robbery as the main version of kidnapping of a law enforcement officer in Dagestan. The purpose of the kidnappers was a car of the police officer. This was reported by a source in the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

During operational search actions in Dagestan the police personnel found a policeman kidnapped on September, 13.

A trial on the case of murder of a military doctor in "Arsankar" restaurant that started in Armenia on September, 13, was deferred till September, 24, because of the absence of the defendant's attorney Aram Khachatryan, representatives of the court of general jurisdiction Avan and Nor Nork reported.

On September, 13, policemen in the settlement of Remontnoye prevented a collision among several tens people who gathered in the square near the market in order to stick up for their friends.

At a plenary session on September, 13, European Parliament adopted a resolution "on Safarov's case" expressing regret about President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev's decision of pardon to Ramil Safarov who killed Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan in 2004 in Budapest.

In process of shelling carried out within the framework of a special operation on search of gunmen in Buinaksk district an error occurred and the shells got into the territory of boarding school No 3, Press Service of Chief Military Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia reported.

Corruption in Northern Caucasus differs from the all-Russian one: the south of the country is indulged in so-called "clan corruption" when some groups of citizen promote their relatives and often neglect the more experienced and trained personnel. This was reported by participants of the press conference "Corruption and Human Rights in Contemporary Russia".