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Members of a non-governmental pressure group "Parents of Volgograd for Children's Rights" appealed to deputies of the municipal and regional Dumas asking for aid in solving the problem of the lack of places in kindergartens of Volgograd. 36 legislators ignored the activists' request.

On September, 14, two schoolchildren aged 12 and 13 in the town of Shakhti, Rostov region, perished after breathing in butane through polyethylene bags.

On September, 14, the parties of the case of "Urvan jama'at" (Kabardino-Balkaria) spoke in a debate in North-Caucasian military circuit. The defendants and their attorneys asked the court to re-qualify a number of clauses in the case and also not to impose life imprisonment.

Vladimir Elichev, Deputy Head of Administration of the city of Stavropol and Director of the Town-Planning Committee, is suspected of abuse of power. As reported by the press service of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) operative agents believe that Elichev had broken the order of granting land plots, owned by the municipality, in favour of some particular company.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office is investigating the attempt to blow up the car of the religious figure undertaken in the city of Argun. Law enforcement bodies are searching the persons involved in preparing the crime.

Today in the morning, an Azerbaijani drone was shot down in the Askeran direction of the contact line with Azerbaijan over the territory of Karabakh. This was stated by the press service of Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh. Azerbaijan does not confirm this information.

The network of the civil society "Refugees and International Law" has issued an open letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan on suspicion of embezzlement by responsible officials of the funds allocated to build houses for refugees.

In the course of a sanitary-epidemiological investigation held at the Veshenskaya secondary school of the Rostov Region, the regional "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) division has established that the school had broken the sanitary and anti-epidemic regime and rules of children's nutrition.

As believed by the participants of the conference "Situation in the Armenian Army", the establishment of the institute of Military Ombudsperson can improve the situation in the Armed Forces of Armenia.

The absence in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of civil activism and violations of human rights have been stated by rights defenders and journalists from Baku, who visited the NAR on September 12. They spoke about it on September 13 at the press conference held in the Azerbaijani capital at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

At night of September, 11, local policeman Evgeny Tereshenko committed suicide in the stanitsa of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar region, by shooting in his head from a Government-issue Makarov.

Residents of Khabez district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia state that policemen regularly come to their houses, carry out searches without explanation of the reason and take them to police department where they are interrogated, their fingerprints are taken and the policemen take written statements from those interrogated that they are not Wahhabis.

On September, 2, armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms in the capital of Chechnya kidnapped a resident of Gudermes district of the republic and carried him away in an unknown direction, "Memorial" Human Rights Center reports.

The authorities of the Matveev-Kurgan District of the Rostov Region has rejected the initiative of the Search Association "Mius-Front" to rebury the remains of more than ten soldiers who perished in the battles for liberation of the Rostov Region.

A resident of the Gudermes District of Chechnya and a woman from Ingushetia have been convicted in Chechnya for illegal receipt of compensation benefits, due for the housing and property lost during the warfare.

In the city of Izberbash, power agents have detained a person suspected of assaulting policemen, of whom two died. This was announced today by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Jonathan Legear, a newcomer of the "Terek" Football Club (FC) has confessed that Ramzan Kadyrov, who is also the president of the FC, triples the bonuses paid to the players and presents expensive watches and cars to them. The users of the Livejournal try to understand: where the Chechen leader takes money to buy expensive gifts.

The Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Dareskizb" - the publisher of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" - will defend its right to the freedom of expression at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The company is preparing a lawsuit and plans to submit it to the court before the end of September.

Today, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has visited the Karabulak City Hospital, severely criticized its work and ordered mo take a cadre decision on the Minister of Public Health of Ingushetia.

In the morning on September 13, the workers of the metallurgical plant "Hercules", located in the city of Kutaisi, announced a termless strike. The refusal of a hundred of workers to get to work was a continuation of the long-term conflict with the plant management.