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Today, the decision of the Pre-Kuban City Court of Krasnodar, stating that the custody conditions at the special detention facility of the Tuapse UVD (Interior Department), has entered its legal force. It was the demand of ecologist Suren Gazaryan, who was detained in February 2011 during a protest action at the so-called "Tkachov's summer cottage", to recognize as illegal the idleness of the Tuapse UVD and unacceptable conditions of detention at the jail.

According to the initial information obtained after decoding of the "black box" of the Azerbaijani aircraft, which crashed down in Afghanistan, the trajectory of landing of the aircraft did not meet the pre-approved trajectory of landing. This was stated by Ilham Amirov, chairman of the inquiry commission and vice-president of the CJSC "AZAL".

The public supervisory commission over prisons and jails in Kabardino-Balkaria met Murat Bizhev, who is kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) and accused of storing firearms.

Today, residents of the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region, have paid tribute to the victims of the terror act committed in this city on September 16, 1999. That crime killed 19 persons; 73 citizens became invalids; and in total over 16,000 people, including more than 1000 children, were officially recognized to be victims.

Zubair Khalidov, Prosecutor of the Akhvakh District of Dagestan, has sent a petition to the Botlikh District Court asking to invalidate the decision of the head of the district Ismail Magomedsharipov on changing the status of local lands.

Today, the Presidium of the Bar of Azerbaijan has decided to suspend the powers of the lawyer Elchin Namazov and dismiss him from the Bar membership. The punishment followed the recognition by the Bar's disciplinary commission of Namazov's violation of professional ethics.

Tonight in Makhachkala, Omar Magomedov, the correspondent of the North-Caucasian bureau of the NTV Company, was beaten.

The youth Parliament of Chechnya announced a monthly charitable action "We are One Unit" in the republic.

Zainudin Daiziev, imam of a mosque in the settlement of Kadar, was shot down in the evening of September, 15, in Buinalsk district of Dagestan, Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

The relatives of ten victims of the events of March, 1, 2008, are indignant over the report of PACE Monitoring Committee "Activities of the Institutes of Democracy in Armenia". On September, 15, they held an action of protest near CE office in Armenia.

At night of September, 16, the police dispersed an action of protest of metallurgists in Georgia and detained 15 persons without a charge. Later the detained were released. This was reported by Irakly Petriashvili, leader of Association of Trade Unions.

The investigators engaged in the murder of the Chechen rights defender Natalia Estemirova check possible involvement of local power agents in the crime, Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of the Human Rights Society "Memorial", said at the press conference, "North Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger", which was held on September 14 in the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

Within consideration of the case of Serob Ter-Pogosyan, a major businessman and a former adviser of Armenian Prime Minister, accused of paedophilia, there are ten victims. All of them originate from socially disadvantaged families, as stated by Ovsep Sargsyan, the spokesman of the prosecution at the trial.

The drone (spy unmanned aircraft), which crashed down in Nagorno-Karabakh, had nothing to do with Azerbaijan, said the local Ministry of Defence (MoD). This was reported in a special statement of the Ministry.

Human rights defenders believe that over the past two years the situation with the freedom of the press in Northern Caucasus, has worsened. This was stated on September 14 at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow at the press conference "Northern Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger".

The Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" and the World Wildlife Fund-Russia (WWF) have signed an agreement on cooperation in the area of nature protection in Northern Caucasus.

The Regional Department of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has reported that two residents of the village of Semichny, Kotelnikov District of the Volgograd Region, were hospitalized with the diagnosis of anthrax.

As reported today by Oleg Tushmalov, the head of the Moscow Interregional Investigatory Department for Transports of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the dry food kits, which had been given to the children who returned from a summer camp in the Krasnodar Territory and were hospitalized en route, the coliform bacillus was detected.

In the village of Utrish, located near the city of Anapa, 15 armed youngsters opened fire at a hotel with tourists.

At the World Championships in Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Women's Wrestling, held in Turkey, Zamira Rakhmanova, an athlete from Dagestan, has won the gold medal. This is the first Russian gold medal in women's wrestling since 2002.