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On September 5, members of the project "Occupy Kuban" were detained by the police for several hours in the village of Dzhubga of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory. This was reported by the website of the "Yabloko" Party. Today, there was an attempt to detain eleven activists at the railway platform of the city of Khosta.

In Volgograd, a correspondent of the "NTV" TV Company was detained during the shooting of reportage on the elimination of African swine fever (ASF) outbreaks in the region, held in the building of the Department of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance.

Today, the magistrate court of the city of Volzhsky found pensioner Galina Tikhenko, detained at a rally in Volgograd, guilty of committing an administrative violation. However, the court released the pensioner from administrative liability, having pronounced an oral warning.

During the last two weeks, 13 policemen of the patrol-and-post service (PPS) of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were killed and 20 more were wounded. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Marifa Lyanova, the head of personnel of the separate regiment for the protection of the administrative boundaries of the MIA in the Republic of Ingushetia. She has noted that it is the first time when she faces such losses in the ranks of policemen during her 20-year-employment at the regiment.

In August 1-31, the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) reported two violations of the rights of the religious organizations of "Jehovah's Witnesses" - in the Rostov Region and North Ossetia. This is stated in the reference of the Management Centre of "Jehovah's Witnesses" in the Russian Federation on manifestations of intolerance to the believers of this confession.

Gocha Khugaev from North Ossetia is a gold medallist at London Paralympics in long jump among athletes of categories F37 and F38.

Today, the Russia's largest book forum of international scale - the jubilee 25th Moscow International Book Fair - opened the booth of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", named "Human Rights" and organized by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. During the exhibition, a new book about the situation in Dagestan was presented.

Relatives of Ramazan Sharamazanov, who was killed on September 2 in a shootout with the police, state that they cannot get his body for burial, said Murtuzali Tagirov, the chairman of the human rights organization "Fighter for Justice".

According to the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Magomed Idrisov has applied to the law enforcement bodies about the disappearance of his daughter Madina Idrisova, who had gone to visit her friends to the village of Uchkent, Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan.

A republican family-type rehabilitation center for disabled children opened in Grozny. It is the first medical institution of this kind in Russia, officials of the Ministry of Public Health of Chechnya emphasize.

In schools of the Volgograd Region, children from low-income Gypsy families receive free school textbooks and breakfasts. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Valentina Simenenko, Principal of the school No. 46 of the village of Verkhnyaya Elshanka.

During the six months of this year, the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan registered 96 reports of kidnappings. Of these, 72 are complaints of parents of girls, abducted for marriage. The statistics of kidnappings in Dagestan, published by human rights defenders at the forum in Vladikavkaz, differs from the data available to law enforcement agents.

Yesterday, on September 4, residents of the village of Utsmiyurt of the Babayurt District of Dagestan blocked the highway Kizlyar-Babayurt, demanding to build a new school in the village. According to the pupils' parents, the modular school, in which their children are studying, is not suitable for lessons. The highway was unblocked; however, the today's lessons in school were cancelled.

On September 4, Budapest hosted an action "We're sorry, Armenia!" where people protested against Hungary's decision to give Ramil Safarov out to Azerbaijan.

Last week, on August 27-September 2, 2012, at least 50 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 29 persons were killed, and 21 wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

The Children's Hospital of the Stavropol Territory, where a teenager perished as a result of inflammation of the hyperbaric chamber, faces a fine of 100,000-150,000 roubles for the violations revealed. This was reported by the "Roszdravnadzor" (Russian Federal Service on Surveillance in Health Care).

In Rostov-on-Don, the opposition rally at Theatre Square gathered more than 100 persons. Half of them were representatives of opposition movements and parties, the others young people with posters reading: "We are against revolution" and "We are for reforms and stability".

Today, in Makhachkala, the central square in front of the complex of buildings of Dagestani government, gathered relatives and friends of Sirajuddin Khasaev, who on September 3 was repeatedly kidnapped by unidentified armed men straight out of the hospital. The gathered relatives demand that the authorities should find the whereabouts of the kidnapped man. This was reported by his wife Zaira Khasaeva.

The Chairperson of district Election Committee of Akhalkalaki (Samtskhe-Djavaheti district of Georgia) was beaten up by members of the Committee. The reasons of the incident are currently being clarified, Central Election Committee of the country reported.

On September, 3, a meeting was held in Moscow near the Russian State University (RSU) of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin under the slogan "We are different but we are all together against terrorism". It was organized by the management of RSU with the support of Moscow Government and Union of students' communities and timed to the Day of solidarity in the struggle against international terrorism and Day of memory of victims of the tragedy in Beslan.