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According to the preliminary information, the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party has gained more than 86% of the votes at the elections of members of the Legislative Assembly of Chechnya. This was reported by the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Chechnen Republic.

Elena Samoshina, a mother of many children from Volgograd, has stopped her hunger strike after the proposal received by staff members of the reception room of Vladimir Putin to come to Moscow to present her demands to the reception office of the Russian President.

On September 9, the Lenin District Court will pronounce the pre-trial restriction measure to Arslan Durushev, a resident of Makhachkala, who was detained by law enforcement bodies after the search of his apartment in the residential settlement of Reduktorny of Makhachkala. This was reported by a source at the police of Makhachkala.

Today, by a majority of vote, members of the People's Assembly of Dagestan have elected Ramazan Abdulatipov the leader of the republic. The extraordinary session was attended by 88 out of 90 MPs. 86 MPs voted for Ramazan Abdulatipov, and 2 MPs voted for Ummupazil Omarova.

Prior to the voting at the Parliament of Ingushetia, during which Yunus-Bek Evkurov was elected the leader of the republic, all candidates had presented their programmes. The MPs emphasize that all programmes were constructive and described the same acute problems.

Tatiana Okushko, the advocate for the relatives of Tarkhan Kartoev, who died in the corrective colony in Yekaterinburg, has filed an appeal against the decision of the Investigating Department not to open a criminal investigation into the violent death of the convict.

A resident of Makhachkala Arslan Durushev was detained today and taken to some unknown location, said his wife Fatima Kazieva. According to her story, power agents had planted an explosive device on him.

In Tbilisi, the authorities have resettled 45 families, who in October 2012 voluntarily moved into former public schools Nos. 13 and 142. The check has found that some of them are socially disadvantaged citizens-participants of the programme to combat poverty.

Suren Sagatelyan, a member of the Board of Anti-Corruption Centre "Transparency International", and Aikak Arshamyan, the project coordinator of the Yerevan Press Club, took part in a protest action against Armenia's accession to the Customs Union. On September 5, they were brought to hospital with injuries received when they were attacked by a group of unidentified persons.

The person killed during the special operation held in the town of Nartkala has been identified as Ruslan Khapov, a member of the "Urvan" grouping. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Residents of the village of Akhalchi of the Khunzakh District of Dagestan have appealed to the Dagestani authorities with the request to help repair the school gym. A month ago, the ceiling in the school gym collapsed.

Natives of the villages of Khrakh-Uba and Uryan-Uba located in Azerbaijan, who moved to Dagestan, complained to the members of the European Parliament about violations of their rights by the Azerbaijan's authorities.

At trial on the criminal case against Vladislav Zhuravlyov, ex-Deputy Mayor of Novocherkassk, a witness was questioned. He has stated that in 2010, at the gathering of the Cossack village of Srednyaya, Vladislav Zhuravlyov called on residents to international hostility.

23 residents of the Dagestani village of Sabnava, who claimed that they could not receive compensation for their properties damaged by flooding, have reported receiving the allocated funds. Some residents are dissatisfied with the volume of compensations.

On September 6, in Yerevan, the initiative group of the movement "Let's Liberate Monument from Oligarch" held in front of the Ministry of Culture a rally demanding to suspend reconstruction of the Market Hall located in Mashtots Avenue.

As reported by the spokesman of the Investigating Department for Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, the militant was shot dead, who managed to run away on September 5 from the base of the members of the "Urvan grouping" of militants in the vicinity of the village of Kakhun.

The Sovietsky Court of Makhachkala has started the consideration of the complaint lodged by the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova against the actions of the investigating authorities, which had stopped the criminal case on her beating in the building of the Khasavyurt OVD.

On September 6, seven mothers from large families from the Volgograd Region went on a hunger strike demanding to solve their social problems. The action takes place in the reception room of the regional Governor Sergey Bozhenov.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has dismissed the appeal lodged by the screenwriter Rustam Ibragimbekov, the chairman of the oppositional National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan, against his non-admission to the presidential election.

Muslims will not hold a collective namaz (prayer) in Pyatigorsk to protest against the authorities' attempts to demolish the mosque in Kislovodsk. This was announced by Muhammad Rakhimov, Mufti of the Stavropol Territory.