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In the Rostov Region, after August 25, operative groups of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) searched the houses of 19 Jehovah's Witnesses. This was reported by Gregory Martynov from the press service of the Administrative Centre of this religious organization.

On September 2, the city of Beslan, North Ossetia, will open an architectural and sculptural composition "Good Angel of Peace" in memory of the victims of the terror act committed in September 2004 at School No. 1.

In Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, the Foundation named "Miloserdiye" (Mercy), located in the temple-chapel of St Sergius of Radonezh, is gathering clothes, stationery items and toys for children from poor and needy families. Gifts for September 1 will be also brought to the Elista orphanage for mentally retarded children and social shelter.

According to the decree of the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, signed on August 29, the elections of Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation will be held on December 4, 2011. This year, the parties' threshold barrier was brought down to 5 percent; while the term in office went up to 5 years. In parallel with the federal elections, the South of Russia – Ingushetia, Stavropol Territory and Astrakhan Region – will elect their regional parliaments.

In Ingushetia, the father of the kidnapped Akraman Ugurchiev has turned to the republic's Prosecutor's Office, Ombudsperson and Security Council. So far, the officials and security agents, involved in search of Akraman Ugurchiev and Umalat Bersanov, can say nothing to their relatives, Salman Ugurchiev, Akraman's father, said.

The verdict passed by the Soviet District Court, according to which 8 natives of Dagestan were found guilty of raping a 26-year-old girl, a hearing and speech invalid, has come into affect, as reported by the Investigatory Department for the Astrakhan Region of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation).

The Ministry of National Security (MNS) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) has admitted the death on August 28 of Turadzh Zeinalov, 31, who had been arrested by Ministry's agents. However, the MNS of the NAR denies the violent death of Zeinalov.

The administration of the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory, has created the United Database of City Problems, which is based on the programme of "social family passports".

Committee of Inquiry accuses an eighteen-years-old resident of Krasnodar of an attempt of killing a sixteen-years-old ethnic Armenian on ethnic hatred grounds.

Today Central district court of Volgograd sentenced Elena Ivanova, ex-employee of Public prosecutor’s office, who was acknowledged guilty of a child’s death in a road accident to 2,5 years of custody with a stay of execution.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has presently received 2324 search requests from persons whose relatives in Northern Caucasus are considered missing. This figure was announced by North-Caucasian Mission of ICRC on the eve of International Day of Missing People which is commemorated today, August, 30.

XVI International Bike-festival called “Epilogue” organized by “Night Wolfs” motorcycle club passed off at the sea front of Novorossiysk on August, 29. Head of the Russian Government Vladimir Putin arrived at the festival in the lead of a motorcade at the wheel of a three-wheeled “Harley Davidson”.

Power agents have to do with kidnapping in Ingushetia of Umalat Bersanov and Akroman Ugurchiev, residents of Sleptsovsk, their relatives assert. They fear for the fate and health of the missing men. Law enforcers say that a check is underway on the fact of the disappearance of Bersanov and Ugurchiev.

On August 25, Artyom Malinovskiy, 16, was brought by policemen to the narcology dispensary, tried to run away from there and perished.

The oppositional "Georgian Party" calls on the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Chief Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to react to statements of drivers of Tbilisi minivans, who claim that they are forced to raise the tariffs.

In 2011, the Public Observation Commission (POC) for monitoring jails and detention facilities of Kabardino-Balkaria received over a hundred complaints, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magazali Endreev, the Chair of the POC.

In the period from August 25 to September 1, the Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) for the Republic of Kalmykia (RK) is holding the campaign "Your child needs you", under which the court marshals of the Elista branch are sending reminder letters to most malicious alimony defaulters.

Employees of the Grozny-based organization "Grozvodokanal" (water supply and sewage) cannot receive their several months' salary. Workers of another entity – the Unitary Enterprise "Spetsstroy" – have again complained of their employers.

The defence of Rasul Mirzaev, a native of Dagestan and the world champion in mixed martial arts, accused of beating to death the 19-year-old student Ivan Agafonov in Moscow, asks to release him from custody, said the fighter's advocate Igor Dergachov.

The tree children injured in the explosions on August 21 near a supermarket in Makhachkala, are still in hospital. According to doctors, their lives are out of danger, but they will time for treatment and rehabilitation.