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The action "Packs-Killers" was held in the Tuapse District by participants of the forum of environmental initiatives "EKA-MIR-2011". While distributing their campaign materials, the organizers told people about the harmful effects of plastic packs and packages on the environment, and then offered everyone to take part in decorating a six-meter eco-bag.

After the air crash of YaK-42 near Yaroslavl, which claimed 43 human lives, Russia suspended operation of eight aircrafts of this model; in particular, after the emergency inspection held by the Federal Agency for Transport Supervision ("Rostransnadzor"), the operation of the YaK-42 belonging to the "Grozny Avia" was suspended.

In Dagestan, power agents are pursuing the militants who had shelled the house of a police officer. This was stated by Nikolai Sintsov, the official spokesman of the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC).

A group of monks from the Tibetan Monastery Gyudmed has come to Kalmykia to take part in the international forum "Buddhism: Philosophy of Non-Violence and Compassion", which will begin its work in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, on September 22 and last till October 2.

Human rights activists have complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of their colleague, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Natalia Estemirova.

Forty children, who were returning by train to Karelia from a summer camp in the city of Anapa, were taken off the train and hospitalized with an intestinal infection. They were taken to hospitals of Michurinsk, Tver, Ryazan and Moscow.

In Batumi, the festival named Golden Talent-2011" is on. It is attended by 18 performers from many countries.

The announcement of the universal amnesty in spring this year, and the investigation by Armenian authorities of the deaths of 10 civilians in the course of the anti-government demonstrations on March 1-2, 2008, have allowed the PACE to state the termination of the case related to the March events.

In Baku, on the initiative of the "Organization for Liberation of Karabakh" (OLK), the "Coordination Board on Conflicts in Southern Caucasus" was founded. On the Georgian part, it includes a coalition consisting of 12 non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and on the Azerbaijani one - the OLK and the Centre for Deportation Victims.

Militants, killed in Ingushetia on September 8, were involved in the group of Said Buryatskiy (Alexander Tikhomirov), the Wahhabi ideologist, who was killed in 2010. This was reported today by the source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Protest rallies against the non-combat losses in the Armenian Army will be continued until the objective results of investigation into the death of soldiers are available. This was reported by Arthur Sakunts, Chairman of the Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly, who participated in the march "Army in black" held on September 8.

Owner and workers of the brick factory in the city of Kaspiisk, where, according to soldier Andrei Popov, he was kept as a slave, told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that former soldier had never been at the enterprise. At present, investigators from the military prosecutor's office examine the factory.

Russian Aid Fund within special joint project with the "Caucasian Knot" asks readers to take part in the destinies of five children from Dagestan, Stavropol Territory, Chechnya, and North Ossetia. As part of special project, which is called the "Children of the" Caucasian Knot" by the edition, assistance to five children from the Northern Caucasus has already been rendered. More than 1.1 million roubles have been raised for their treatment.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, has signed a decree establishing the commission for adaptation to peaceful life of those persons who decided to stop terrorist and extremist activities in the territory of the Republic of Ingushetia.

Young Chechen people want more freedom than Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya, allows them to have, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary Envoy of the President to the North-Caucasian Federal District, reported to the foreign journalists.

In Yerevan, a rally of the extra-parliamentary oppositional Armenian National Congress with the main demand of holding early presidential and parliamentary elections was held in Freedom Square.

The family of Idrak Abbasov, Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist, who resides in Baku, was attacked.

According to more precise data, four policemen were injured in an explosion in Makhachkala last night, a representative of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

On September, 8, an action of protest passed off in front of the building of Armenian Government with the demand to stop construction of small hydropower station at the waterfall of Trchkan.

An emergency was registered in a military unit dislocated in Shamkir district of Azerbaijan. A soldier called up for active military service by Sheki district military registration and enlistment office committed suicide by firing from his duty weapon.