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Gazimagomed Gaziev, a resident of the township of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, asks to transfer his son Shamil Gaziev, who is serving his term in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District for committing a double terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010, out of a punitive confinement into a prison cell.

The Russian authorities must drop legal proceedings against the residents dissatisfied with construction of a big power plant in Khosta district of Sochi, international organization "Human Rights Watch" considers. It also calls for the authorities to stop construction of Kudepsta thermal power-station, secure freedom of speech and assembly pointing out that arrests and intimidation of protesters overshadow preparation for the Olympic Games in Sochi.

Last week, September, 3 - September, 9, no less than 16 people became victims of armed confrontation in Northern Caucasus. 14 of them perished and two got wounded. These are the totals of calculation by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The city of Volzhskiy, Volgograd Region, has hosted a rally under the slogan "No to raise utility tariffs and no to liquidation of marketplaces!" The rally adopted a resolution with a demand to check the work of power suppliers and management companies of Volzhskiy, declare a moratorium on growth of utility rates and food prices, and a protest against the policy of city authorities aimed to liquidate marketplaces because of the outbreak of the African swine fever (ASF).

Five football players from North Ossetia - Alexander Lekov, Zaurbek Pagaev, Eduard Ramonov, Lasha Murvanadze and Aslanbek Sapiev - member of the Russian national team, have won gold medals in the football tournament of the 2012 Paralympic Games in London.

The police is deliberately delaying the magistrate trial on the protocol compiled under the article of "Disobedience to lawful demands of the police", said Ivan Karpenko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", who was detained in Sochi on his way to the rally in Kudepsta.

Representatives of some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) object to the attempts of the oppose efforts of the Council of NGOs to represent the entire third sector of the republic in the case of pardoning the Azerbaijani officer Ramil Safarov. In particular, activists are against introduction of moratorium on Armenian-Azerbaijani meetings within regional projects.

Investigating authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia have opened a criminal case on incitement to suicide of Andrei Altukhov, 9, a pupil of the republic's children's home for orphans and children left without parental care.

Today, at the territorial consultative and diagnostic centre in Stavropol, a picket was held by the Orthodox youth movement "Soboryane" demanding legislative ban on abortions and encouraging large families.

A public subbotnik within the all-Russian campaign "Blogger Against Garbage" was held on September 8 in Stavropol. About 70 persons went out to clean the Taman Forest.

Tsotne, the son of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, has again gone on hunger strike in prison demanding better custody conditions in prisons.

Convict from Dagestan Arthur Khanaliev who is serving his penalty in a colony of Lipetsk region declared his intention to go on a hunger strike on September, 9, as a sign of protest against groundless, in his opinion, being regularly placed in a lockup during several months, his attorney Abdurahman Abdurahmanov reports. The lawyer demands to call all those guilty to account.

On September, 9, men's combined team of Armenia won in the 40th Chess Olympics that finished in Istanbul. So, Armenia became three-time Olympic champion and won the first prize in the competition.

On September, 8, Nasimi district court of Baku passed a judgment to prolong the term of arrest of Vugar Gonagov, Executive Director of regional TV channel "KhaialTV" broadcasting in Guba district of Azerbaijan, and Zaur Guliev, Editor-in-Chief of this channel, till December, 1, the journalists' attorney Elchin Sadygov reported.

On September 8, a group of explosion experts and sappers blew up the circus building, located in central Yerevan.

Nadezhda Azhgikhina, Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that about fifteen hundred came today to the charity concert to the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire to commemorate the journalists who perished in performance of their professional duties.

A source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan has reported that four bodies were found at the place where a military helicopter Mi-35 crashed in a collision with a mountain; one of the casualties was not a crew member.

As reported by the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), as a result of collapse of the roof of a detached building of the nutrition unit of the district hospital of the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar Territory, one person was lost and six more injured.

Today in Volgograd the all-Russian action "Blogger Against Garbage" has brought together from 100 to 150 people, who cleaned the beach near the Museum-Reserve "Stalingrad Battle", said Ruslan Alekseev, one of the participants of the action and an activist of the movement "For Fair Elections".

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) a member of the armed grouping, which was exposed to a special operation in late August near the Dagestani section of the Georgian-Russian border, was detained in Georgia.