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In Georgia, policemen have detained - on charges of inhuman treatment of prisoners - three employees of the Gldani Penal Institution No. 8, one more supervisor has been put on the wanted list, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said today.

Today, around 100 people took part in a rally against rising utility rates and salary debts to workers of the Volgograd Shipyard.

Volunteers, mostly pupils, have held a subbotnik to clean up Mount Elbrus, located in Kabardino-Balkaria, from household garbage left behind by tourists.

Today, Vladimir Dorokhin, the Russia's Ambassador in Baku, was served a note of protest on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Azerbaijan in connection with the statements of the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

Today, the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has ruled to make the trial on the lawsuit of Vyacheslav Merekha, who became disabled as a result, as he claims, torture and rape committed at the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) in December 2010, open for the public.

The sappers defused a bomb left by unidentified persons near a store in the settlement of Babayurt, Babayurt district of Dagestan. Its volume was five kilogram trotyl equivalent, a representative of Operation Headquarters in the republic reported.

Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in the town of Kaspiysk, Dagestan, received a statement from a local resident. He reported that his son's location had been unknown since September, 11.

Last week, September, 10 to September, 16, 2012, no less than 21 persons became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus. 15 out of them perished and six got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Araz Guliev, Editor-in-Chief of xeber44.com online religious media functioning in the South of the country, was arrested in Azerbaijan. Upon a verdict of Masally district court dated September, 10, Guliev was arrested for a two-months term. He is accused of hooliganism committed by o group of persons, the Institute of Freedom and Safety of Reporters referring to the arrested man's brother Azer Guliev reports.

The Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory declared the Airline CJSC (Closed Joint-Stock Company) "Nebesny Express" (Sky Express) a bankrupt.

According to the preliminary information, the cause of human poisoning by carbon monoxide, which occurred in the Baku shopping centre "Bina" on September 16, was a fault in the electric generators. In total, about 150 persons were affected, and they were hospitalized. Most of them were discharged by this morning after they were rendered a medical assistance.

In Sumgait, as a result of the fire at the plant for the production of household chemical products, two persons were killed, two other persons got injuries of varying severity, and one more person disappeared. This was reported by General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan.

Today, relatives of Sirazhuddin Khasaev, who on September 3 was again kidnapped by unidentified armed men in police uniforms directly from the hospital in Makhachkala, appealed for help in his search to Magomedsalam Magomedov, the leader of Dagestan.

In Rostov-on-Don, court fined one of the persons, detained at the protest action, which was held within the All-Russian "March of Millions". The trials against three more detainees were postponed.

About 50 people tried to hold a protest in front of the US Embassy in Baku against the USA-made movie "Innocence of Muslims". The police dispersed the action and detained several protesters.

On September 15, Istanbul hosted the ceremony of awarding the International Historical-Educational, Charitable and Human Rights Society "Memorial" with the award named after Hrant Dink.

The regional police are searching a 13-year-old orphaned girl, who disappeared on September 15.

About thirty activists of Stavropol participated in the global ecological action "Let's do it!", which were held on September 15-16 in the form of subbotniks at the Assumption Cemetery and in the forest known as "Kruglenki".

Today, the magistrate judicial precinct No. 103 of the Tsentralny District of Sochi has indefinitely postponed the consideration of the claim lodged by Vladimir Krivosheev, an employee of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "CHOP-REGION-3" (CHOP means a private security company) against Svetlana Kravchenko, the regional correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

On September, 16, festivities were held in Chechnya on the occasion of The Day of Chechen Woman established three years ago. The main celebrations passed off in Grozny. Some residents of Chechen capital complained of traffic irregularities on that day.