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Today, 20 persons gathered for a picket to protect children's rights for affordable and high-quality pre-school education in Volgograd. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The action was sanctioned by the authorities.

Today, a group of activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA) attempted to hold protest actions in front of the French and US Embassies in Baku in connection with the film "Innocence of Muslims", shot in the USA, and the publication of the French weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Reinforced police squads prevented the protests by detaining most active participants.

On September 28, in Makhachkala, the Dagestani regional organization "Lak National Council" was established by the Congress of the Lak people, which brought together 427 delegates from the Lak, Novolak and Kuli Districts and communities with compact residence of the Lak people.

In Sochi, eviction of the Shablo family, scheduled for September 29, was postponed for indefinite period. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sergey Kharlanov, Deputy Chief of the Inter-District Division of the Sochi Bailiff Service.

On September 28, in Azerbaijan, about 100 residents of the village of Nardaran, located 25 km north of Baku, held a protest action against the anti-Islamic film "Innocence of Muslims", shot in the USA, and the publication of the French weekly newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" of the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

According to investigators, a man, suspected in the kidnapping in Rostov-on-Don of an 8-year-old girl, planned to kill her. At present, the investigators prepared for the court the documents to arrest the suspected criminal. He faces up to 15 years of imprisonment. According to the family members of the rescued girl, at present, the girl is at the hospital under the supervision of psychologists.

The number of children, who got sick and hospitalized because of the outbreak of infectious disease in Stepanakert, reached 57. The condition of all patients is stable. This was reported by the Medical Union "Arevik".

Gyulyar Akhmedova, a member of the National Assembly, one of the alleged participants in the video talks about bribing to be elected to the Parliament of Azerbaijan, was excluded from the ruling party "Yeni Azerbaijan" (YAP). This was reported by Ali Akhmedov, Deputy Chairman and Executive Secretary of the party. The Baku City Prosecutor's Office instituted a criminal case in connection with the video record, disseminated on September 25. This was reported by the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office.

On September 26, deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Stavropol Territory unanimously adopted amendments to the Law "On additional guarantees of right of citizens of the Russian Federation to appeal". At present, an oral appeal to any public institution equals to an appeal in written form.

Lawyers of persons, convicted in the case of riots in Manege Square in Moscow in December 2010, filed an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against the sentence to Igor Berezyuk, Ruslan Khubaev, and Kirill Unchuk, the activists of the Other Russia. This was reported by Dmitry Agranovsky, the lawyer of Igor Bereziuk.

Today, in front of the Kutaisi prison No. 2, local journalists and NGO activists held an action in solidarity with prisoners.

Several thousand people took part in the ceremony of consecration of the capital of Georgia. Patriarch Ilia II called for the authorities to release HIV-positive convicts and convicts ill with tuberculosis.

Vazgen Khachikyan, the former head of the State Social Security Service, was arrested. This was reported today by the police's press service.

One citizen of Azerbaijan perished and one more got wounded at night of September, 27, near a cafe in the South of Moscow, a source in law enforcement bodies reported.

Yesterday evening, September, 27, a woman aged 51 who worked in a commercial store was killed in the settlement of Kushtil, Khiva District of Dagestan, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reports.

Yesterday, September, 27, two residents of Makhachkala and Khiva district appealed to the police of Dagestan reporting their relatives' disappearance, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reports.

An action of collecting supplies for the Syrian Armenians "Help your brothers" started in Nagorno-Karabakh. Humanitarian aid consisting of foodstuff produced in Karabakh was sent to Yerevan to be taken to Syria by air.

The court of the town of Samtredia arrested Avtandil Tevzadze, the head of the pre-election office of Kakha Kaladze, the first number in the party list of the coalition "Georgian Dream", for 60 days for rendering resistance to policemen.

On September 26, Yerevan hosted a rally, dedicated to the birthday of Gurgen Margaryan, who was murdered in Hungary by Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov.

All mobile operators and other Internet providers, operating in Chechnya, blocked access to the "YouTube" after repeated demands of the Chechen Prosecutor's Office. Some residents of the republic state that even prior to that measure they were able to watch the video "Innocence of Muslims", because of which the access to the largest video hosting was blocked.