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The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan sent a letter to US President Barack Obama in the context of his forthcoming meeting on September 24 with President Ilham Aliev at the 65th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

The Volgograd Region, which had registered most of the cases of the West Nile Encephalitis (WNE), sees a decline in morbidity. However, this year was especially complicated. According to the latest data, the total number of WNE patients in Russia has reached 480.

Akop Ovannisyan, former employee of Armenia's consulate in Los Angeles, arrested one year ago in the USA on charges of forging documents, has pled guilty at the trial. The US legislation stipulates up to 5 years of imprisonment for this crime.

The prosecutor's office of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the head of one of the divisions of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as UFSIN), detained for extorting bribes from conditional convicts.

According to the latest data, when a car was shelled in the Kazbek District of Dagestan, two militiamen were lost, another one and a local resident were hospitalized.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria, which has extended today by other three months the custody of 57 defendants in the case dealing with the militants' attack on Nalchik in October 2005, believes that the grounds to keep them behind bars have not changed.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, chaired by Elnur Gasanov, held a preparatory session on the claim of the convicted journalist Einullah Fatullaev against the Baku City Prosecutor's Office.

The political board of the political movement "Amtsakhara" of veterans of the 1992-1993 people's war of Abkhazia condemns the attempt on Vice-President Alexander Ankvab.

The migratory service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO) is preparing to introduce dues for crossing the Georgian-Ossetian border for foreign citizens. Militia Colonel Soslan Tigiev, head of the migratory control of the MIA of the RSO, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to Khavazhi Yusupov, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for the attempt in May 2009 on Isa Yamadaev, a brother of assassinated ex-deputy of the State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev.

In September the non-governmental organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" held a series of solitary piquets near the command headquarters of interior forces in Petersburg as a sign of their protest against mass dispatch of conscripts to Dagestan.

Alexander Ankvab, Vice-president of Abkhazia, got wounded as a result of an attempt at him tonight.

European Committee against tortures and inhuman or humiliating treatment (ECAT) welcomes the drastic steps taken by Georgian authorities for avoidance of cruel treatment, as it is emphasized in the report of ECAT.

As reported by Svetlana Danelyan, leader of the initiative group of Vardane villagers, the participants of the protest action, which was dispersed by OMON (special militia) fighters on September 3, are still persecuted by militia and judicial instances.

Three persons perished and ten were taken to hospital in Kalmykia as a result of a head-on collision of a bus with a "VAZ-2114" car. The bus was following from Makhachkala to Moscow.

Personnel of State Communications Inspection of Abkhazia have removed the transmitters broadcasting the programs of Georgian TV from the territory of Inguri hydro power, Gali district of the republic.

Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported an explosion on the way of a militia car in Kizyl-Yurt.

On September, 21, Doku Umarov, head of Chechen gunmen, deprived Aslanbek Vadalov, Khusein Gakaev and Tarkhan Gaziev, leaders of Chechen sector of "Caucasus" Imarat, of their ranks and titles for having disobeyed him. On Umarov's decision the degraded commanders had to be brought before shariat court.

Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia has published the names of the officer and two soldiers - heroes of the video "True Face of Our Army" placed on the Internet. According to the statement of the Ministry, Major Sasun Galstyan was arrested and is accused of abusing his official duties. The regular service sergeant and a private have been recognized as victims.

On September, 21, the Appellate Court of Tbilisi delivered a standing judgment on the verdict of the court of first instance concerning Gamsakhurdia, the first Georgian President's son according to which the convict had to stay in prison nine years and six months.