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On September 6-8, meetings took place in Moscow, where women-peacemakers, activists of the Alliance of Russian and Georgian NGOs, discussed the ways to solve problems in conflict regions, which may be addressed by the public.

The active phase of the special operation conducted in Verkhnie Makhargi village, Sergokalin District of Dagestan, is over. Four persons, who rendered, according to power agents, armed resistance, were liquidated; a SOBR (special weapons assault team) fighter was also lost.

The law enforcement bodies of Dagestan are searching Abdullah Nustapaev, a resident of Gimry village, Untsukul District, who had worked at the Irganai Hydraulic Power Plant (HPP) and disappeared after the fire. Power agents do not exclude that Vladimir Redkin, chief engineer of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Sulak Hydropower Cascade", released from captivity, could have given data about weak places of the HPP to terrorists.

Levan Chitadze, Leval Kochloshvili and Georgiy Apkhadze, members of the "No" movement, were arrested in the course of the protest action, held near the President's residence Avlabari, in the capital of Georgia, and demanding release of political prisoners.

According to the latest data, as reported by Olga Krivonos, director of the department for organization of medical aid and development of health services of the Russian Ministry of Public Health and Social Development, in total 161 persons are on the list of victims of the explosion in Vladikavkaz.

On September 9, the mayoralty of the capital of Armenia rejected the notification submitted by the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) about a rally to be held on September 24 in Freedom Square.

The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) condemns the terror act committed on September 9 by a suicide bomber in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, as a result of which at least 16 peaceful residents were lost and dozens more received injuries.

Specialists of the "Leader" Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation will arrive next week to Chechnya to continue de-mining of arable lands in the "Zarya" State Farm, Grozny District.

As reported by law enforcement bodies of the capital of Dagestan, last night unidentified criminals killed the head of Corrective Colony No. 7; his wife was wounded.

In the city of Kizil-Yurt, Dagestan, unidentified persons killed a district militia captain and stole his firearms.

In the last five years, the state of things with democratic freedom has been steadily worsening in Azerbaijan. This conclusion is made in the report of the international human rights organization "Article 19", which was presented on September 10 in Baku, in the Azerbaijani House of Human Rights.

In Pankissi Gorge the fire has captured 40 hectares of forest in the vicinity of Matana village, the Ahmet District.

Inspectors are studying the death of a 16-year-old schoolboy at a physical culture lesson in the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory.

The General Assembly of the United Nations has approved the new resolution on return of forced migrants back to the breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has expressed gratitude to those countries whose delegations have supported the resolution. The Russia's MFA, in its turn, finds the very idea of the resolution counterproductive.

The authorities of Vladikavkaz have promulgated a list of casualties of the terror act committed today in the city central marketplace. By now, all the casualties have been identified.

Lawyer Liya Mukhashavriya, head of the Georgian NGO "Priority of Human Rights", demands that the prosecutor's office, Ministry of Justice and prison administration start investigating the fact of beating prisoners in the Ksan prison, located in Eastern Georgia, which happened on August 19.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has reported solution of the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the Chief Investigatory Department of the ICPO, which was accomplished in 2007 in Moscow. Said Abdulakimov, former assistant of the public prosecutor of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, is named to be the customer of the crime.

Relatives of Svetlana Osipova, director general director of a Russian company, who went on hunger strike in Tskhinvali, are going to hold a picket in Moscow in defence of all the Russians imprisoned in South Ossetia.

Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the committee "Civil Assistance", has voiced a number of offers, when speaking at a meeting of women-peacemakers of Russia and Georgia, concerning joint projects and cooperation of the public of the two countries. In particular, she finds it reasonable to hold post-conflict children's camps in the region.

Two persons were lost in a skirmish that burst out in a hotel in Makhachkala last night. The incident has happened after an explosion that was triggered in one of the hotel rooms.