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A public subbotnik within the all-Russian campaign "Blogger Against Garbage" was held on September 8 in Stavropol. About 70 persons went out to clean the Taman Forest.

Tsotne, the son of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, has again gone on hunger strike in prison demanding better custody conditions in prisons.

Convict from Dagestan Arthur Khanaliev who is serving his penalty in a colony of Lipetsk region declared his intention to go on a hunger strike on September, 9, as a sign of protest against groundless, in his opinion, being regularly placed in a lockup during several months, his attorney Abdurahman Abdurahmanov reports. The lawyer demands to call all those guilty to account.

On September, 9, men's combined team of Armenia won in the 40th Chess Olympics that finished in Istanbul. So, Armenia became three-time Olympic champion and won the first prize in the competition.

On September, 8, Nasimi district court of Baku passed a judgment to prolong the term of arrest of Vugar Gonagov, Executive Director of regional TV channel "KhaialTV" broadcasting in Guba district of Azerbaijan, and Zaur Guliev, Editor-in-Chief of this channel, till December, 1, the journalists' attorney Elchin Sadygov reported.

On September 8, a group of explosion experts and sappers blew up the circus building, located in central Yerevan.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that about fifteen hundred came today to the charity concert to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire to commemorate the journalists who perished in performance of their professional duties.

A source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan has reported that four bodies were found at the place where a military helicopter Mi-35 crashed in a collision with a mountain; one of the casualties was not a crew member.

As reported by the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), as a result of collapse of the roof of a detached building of the nutrition unit of the district hospital of the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar Territory, one person was lost and six more injured.

Today in Volgograd the all-Russian action "Blogger Against Garbage" has brought together from 100 to 150 people, who cleaned the beach near the Museum-Reserve "Stalingrad Battle", said Ruslan Alekseev, one of the participants of the action and an activist of the movement "For Fair Elections".

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) a member of the armed grouping, which was exposed to a special operation in late August near the Dagestani section of the Georgian-Russian border, was detained in Georgia.

Today, an explosion occurred in a dwelling house located in the Binagadi District of Baku, where two tenants suffered burns and were taken to hospital, said a spokesman for the Azerbaijan's Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

Rabbi Elsever oglu Jafarov, a soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, who was wounded in July in the Karabakh conflict zone, has died in the hospital. Armenia denies any involvement in the incident, where the soldier was wounded.

On September 7 the city of Stepanakert hosted a special session of the National Assembly of Nagorno-Karabakh, where a ceremony of inauguration of President Bako Saakyan took place.

On September 6, the Georgian village of Ergneti hosted a meeting of the Coordination Mechanism to address issues of missing persons. The participants from Georgia, Russia and South Ossetia agreed to include the persons who had disappeared in 1991-1992 into the search mechanism.

In Sochi, residents of the village of Kudepsta registered forest cutting at the place of the construction of a Thermal Power Plant (TPP). According to the local residents, the destruction of forest was conducted illegally; meanwhile, the police failed to take any measures against violators.

On September 6, on the anniversary 25th Moscow International Book Fair, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" presented two books, dedicated to the events that took place in Northern Caucasus in recent years.

A Dagestani native, who lives and works in Moscow, claimed that the Consular Section of the Embassy of Latvia in Russia refused to issue a visa for him because of his nationality. The Embassy of Latvia denies accusations of prejudice against natives of the Caucasus. Meanwhile, tourism companies confirm that the Schengen countries include the regions of the Caucasus in the list of unreliable areas.

Five criminal cases have been opened on materials of the checks conducted by the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory after the flood in Krymsk on facts of fraud attempts with the funds allocated to support the affected population, as well as on theft of funds intended to clear the river bed and purchase of illumination equipment.

In Sochi, four criminal cases were instituted on the facts of unreasonable overstating the cost of construction of the Olympic facilities. This was reported by Dmitry Kozak, Deputy Prime Minister, supervising the implementation of the Olympic project. According to him, it "may be a precedent in the construction industry."