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Investigators have decided to extend the inquiry into the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya till December 7 this year.

Khamzat Aldiev had nothing to do with the terror act committed in the Malgobek District, said his mother Lyuba Aldieva after identification of the suicide bomber at the Nazran morgue, where she had been invited, along with her elder son Tamerlan on the following day after the explosion in Sagopshi.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku, chaired by Judge Amin Mekhtiev, has considered the complaint lodged by the arrested editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) Gilal Mamedov about his inhuman treatment during arrest and detention.

In the course of a special operation conducted near the Dagestani section of the Georgian-Russian border by the forces and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia, three special agents of the MIA were killed, and five more were wounded. Furthermore, 11 suspected militants were liquidated.

Two officers of the battalion of the patrol-and-post service, wounded in a terror act in the village of Sagopshi in Ingushetia, who receive medical treatment in Moscow, have been transferred from resuscitation to general ward. This was reported by Medical Colonel Alexander Panevin, the deputy head of the hospital on medical care of the Chief Clinical Hospital of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Moscow.

Doctors discharged from the hospital one of the victims of the terror act, committed in the house of Sheikh Said Afandi. Lives of two others wounded persons are not in danger. This was reported by the representative of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan.

In the evening of August 27, in Armenia, in the outskirts of the city of Gyumri, after a pre-election rally of Samvel Balasanyan, a candidate for the position of Mayor of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party, an incident with shooting occurred. This was reported by Karen Babakekhyan, Chief of the Shirak Regional Police Department.

Arthur Dashyan, the husband of Elena Spasskaya, Director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "Directorate of Shopping Mall Service", who was convicted for fraud, again filed to the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin an appeal with a complaint against the actions of investigators, prosecutors and judges of Sochi and the Krasnodar Territory.

A suicide bomber who exploded herself in the house of sheikh Said Afandi in Dagestan was identified as resident of Makhachkala Aminat Saprykina, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

During last week, August, 20, to August, 26, 2012, at least 24 people became victims of an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources. 15 out of them were killed and 9 got wounded.

The cemetery of the village of Chirkey, Buinaksk District of Dagestan, is the venue of the funeral of Sheikh Said Afandi Chirkawi, who was killed today in an explosion triggered in his house. According to preliminary estimates, the number of people who gathered to say farewell to him, is about 150,000.

Today, the Guba District Court of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Zamin Takhirov, has held a preparatory session on the case of the first group of people, accused of rioting in the city of Guba on March 1, 2012.

On August 28, the Day of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili pardoned 168 prisoners.

In Ingushetia, during a special operation, a police officer, born in 1980, was wounded in his chest; he was hospitalized in grave condition, said a spokesman for the regional department of the FSB.

The whereabouts of Ruslanbek Agiev, a resident of Malgobek and an employee of the Ingush MIA, who disappeared on August 23, remains unknown, said his father Aslan Agiev.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Alovsat Abbasov, has started a preliminary hearing on the case of 22 citizens of Azerbaijan, accused of treason, espionage and other crimes.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has opposed the revision of the existing administrative Chechen-Ingush border.

On August 28, the village hospital resumed its work in the village of Novomikhailovsky affected by the flood. It was closed for reconstruction on August 22. This morning, it already gave birth to two newborns, said the public health department of the Tuapse District.

Three local residents in Malgobek district of Ingushetia perished as a result of skirmishes, information about two more lost persons is currently being verified, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports. Battles are going on in Malgobek and the neighbouring settlement of Sagopshi.

A group of children who had a rest in Kobuleti on invitation of a Georgian non-governmental organization (NGO) the “Caucasus Foundation” returned from Georgia. All in all Georgia received 30 refugees’ children, Alihan Akhilgov, Head of foundation “Aid to deported peoples”, reported.