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All four persons, perished in the flooding of the village of Novomikhailovsky of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory have been identified. This was reported today by the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

The mission of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia constructs water pipe lines in the villages of the republic, both those which were affected in the event of 2008 and those which were deprived of the centralized water supply during last 20 years.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan started the trial against seven residents of the republic, who earlier surrendered under guarantees of the President of Dagestan and the commission to assist in adaptation to civilian life of persons, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities.

Late in the evening of August 23 and at night of August 24, after the football match between the "Anji" FC and the A3 FC in Moscow, several clashes occurred between supporters of the Dagestani FC and local nationalist fans of the Moscow FCs.

In Sochi, tenants of the building No. 23 in Jan Fabricius Street claim violation of their rights and attempts of using force, committed by court marshals to evict them from the house they own because of plans to build the Olympic facilities.

The Chief Investigatory Department of the Armenian Police has presented details of the incident at the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, where Vage Avetyan, the military doctor, perished as a result of fight. According to investigators, the quarrel between the staff members of the restaurant and the military doctors erupted after a waiter reproved clothes of Vage Avetyan.

On August 23, the delegation of representatives of the Circassian Diaspora from Turkey, Jordan and Syria, consisting of 22 persons, arrived in Kabardino-Balkaria. In the office of the International Circassian Association, located in Nalchik, the delegation met the public of the republic.

In the Rostov Region, the fact of distribution of letters containing threats against court officials and their family members is being checked. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Rostov Region.

On August 23, the Nizami District Court of Baku completed the trial against journalist Faramaz Allakhverdiev, known as Faramaz Novruzoglu. The Court found him guilty of inciting riots and illegal crossing of the state border and sentenced him to 4.5 years of imprisonment in a high security penal colony.

The attack on the fans of the "Anji" FC, which occurred on August 22 in Moscow Avenue near the "McDonald's" Cafe in Saint Petersburg, is not of interethnic nature. This was reported by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

In Tskhinvali, the commission on legality and legitimacy of distribution of housing in the micro-district "Moskovsky" has prepared a package of documents on violations in the procedure of distribution and access to housing, and it intends to bring them to the prosecutor's office in the near future.

Today, the Moscow City Court granted the motion of investigators and extended the arrest of Yusup-Khadji Temerkhanov, accused of murdering ex-Colonel Yuri Budanov, until December 10.

Today, the court session in the case on the death of contractor officer Artak Nazaryan has continued the phase of consideration of the motions. The party victim again claimed forgeries in the course of the work of investigators and offered to institute criminal proceedings against them. The prosecutor opposed the motion.

The Court of Appeal of the Odessa Region has made the final decision to extradite to Russia Ilya Pyanzin, a citizen of Kazakhstan, suspected of planning the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was announced by Elena Abramova, Spokesperson of the Prosecutor's Office of the Odessa Region.

The Iranian court will announce its decision in the case against Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, young Azerbaijani poets, within 15-20 days. According to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, this was announced today by Elman Abdullaev, Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan.

Tamara Gorbakova, a resident of Malgobek, claims that her husband Rustam Evloev, who worked as an inspector of the Road-and-Post Service (known as DPS) in the Nazran District of Ingushetia, was kidnapped by unidentified armed persons, while he was with his relatives in Chechnya.

At present, water completely left houses in the flooded village of Novomikhailovsky of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory. According to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), about 1500 persons, 570 houses, 14 children's camps, a hospital, a school, and a kindergarten are in the area of the flooding. Many residents of the coastal village believe that the flooding was caused by cluttered bed of the Nechepsukho River.

In Saint Petersburg, a group of unidentified persons attacked fans of the "Anji" FC, who intended to go to Moscow to visit the upcoming match between the Makhachkala FC and the "AZ" FC. This was reported by Ramadan Gaziev, the head of the "Dikaya Diviziya" (Wild Division) fan club of the "Anji" FC.

The Investigatory Committee of Dagestan has prepared an indictment against five police officers within the criminal investigation of the shelling in 2006 of Sapiyat Magomedova and Gasan Baisultanov. This was reported by a source from the Republic's Investigatory Committee.

Today, the verdict in the case against Elena Spasskaya and Mikhail Batrakov, which was challenged by the lawyers of the convicted persons at the judicial panel on criminal cases of the Krasnodar Regional Court, was left unchanged.