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A citizens' group "Protection of Teghut" started an action "Mine or life" during which the first online market of honey from peasants of the settlements of Tegut and Shnokh, Lori district, was organized. According to the organizers, the action is aimed at promotion of the idea of an alternative way of development of the settlements of Lori district.

Magomed Magomedov reported disappearance of Ahmed Magomedov, resident of the settlement of Maidanskoye, to law enforcement bodies, representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan informed.

Swimmer Natali Pronina won two silver medals on the 100 meters distance free style swimming and 200 meters medley relay at the Paralympic Games in London.

In Ingushetia, four out of five persons, convicted after the incident, which occurred on September 1 in the yard of the Republic's Clinical Hospital in Ingushetia, had served their administrative penalties, and they had been released. Another convict Ali Khazbiev, a brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist, an activist of the "PARNAS" Party, remains in custody and receives medical treatment at the Republic's Clinical Hospital.

Kabardino-Balkaria held the solemn events to celebrate the 185th anniversary of Balkaria's voluntary entry and the 455th anniversary of Kabarda's voluntary entry into Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Ilgar Rzaev, an activist of the oppositional "Open Society" Party (OSP) and a volunteer of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), was sentenced in Azerbaijan to 2 years in prison. Azerbaijani human rights activists and NGOs find the verdict "politically motivated."

Residents Buinaksk-relatives of the kidnapped Sirajuddin Khasaev, who was found in a hospital in Makhachkala, claim that he was kidnapped again. In this regard, they plan to block the federal highway.

Svetlana Reiter, a correspondent for the "Esquire" magazine, claims that she was summoned for questioning to the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) in the context of her article concerning disappearances in Chechnya and the inaction of the authorities, where the statement of Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Committee Against Torture, was mentioned.

Iran has freed from prison two young Azerbaijani poets - Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, said Mail Gadjizade, Shakhriyar's father.

In North Ossetia, the Lenin District Court of Vladikavkaz has dismissed today the motion lodged by the advocates of Igor Bestuzhy, the former head of the administration of the city of Stavropol, suspected of bribery, to initiate a criminal investigation on the application of their client about the use of torture against him at the temporary detention centre (known as IVS).

On September, 3, a cameraman in Volgograd who was filming an action against extermination of head of pig livestock in the region because of an infective episode of pig African plague was released from administrative arrest.

The wounded Sirazhuddin Khasaev who survived after adduction in Buinaksk underwent torture together with Khizri Pirmagomedov who later was found killed, kidnapped Zair Khasaev's wife reported.

Members of the top brass were searching the Khazbievs' house in Nazran for about an hour, Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev reported. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs informed that the incident really took place but they were not aware of the details yet.

Deputy Director of Energetics college in the town of Kaspiysk Rabadan Kadiev who disappeared in July was found dead in his homestead in Makhachkala, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported.

Doctors of the ambulance, called again to the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran, insists hospitalization of Ali Khazbiev, brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist and activist of the party "Parnas", who was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Doctors fear for his health.

Protocols on administrative offence were drawn up against the participants of the action "Three Piglets" held on August 31 in the building of the Government of the Volgograd Region. Six people have been fined, and one more is still in detention.

In North Ossetia, today on the final of the memory days of the victims of the terror act of September 1-3, 2004, in Secondary School No. 1 in Beslan, residents of the city and republic's leaders took part in the mourning ceremony at the Memorial Cemetery and laid flowers at the monument named "Tree of Sorrow".

Today, Sirajuddin Khasaev, a resident of Buinaksk, who disappeared on September 2, was found in the Central Makhachkala Hospital with burns of his legs and a gunshot wound in his shoulder, a source from the Dagestani regional public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Abdurakhman Kurskiev, Ilez Merzhoev and Ibragim Bekbuzarov, who were shot dead in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, rendered no resistance and were armless, said their relatives-eyewitnesses of the incident. They turned to the police, the head of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking to investigate the killings. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia said that the casualties were militants and resisted detention.

Today, on September 3, on the solidarity day against terrorism, Dagestan hosts a youth action "We need peaceful Dagestan", said the republic's committee for youth policy.