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A number of public and human rights organizations of the Krasnodar Territory have to Sochi to hold their congress. In parallel, they inspect the Olympic objects.

All the figurants of the incident filmed and then placed on the Internet on September 11, showing violence in Armenian army, have been identified and delivered to the Military Police of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia. A criminal case was initiated.

Today, several hundreds of young men held a rally near the memorial "Eternal Flame", located at the entrance to the city park, which was blown up on September 17. The lay down 138 roses - by the number of soldiers buried there - to the survived part of the memorial.

Today, Elista has started celebrations on the occasion of the 145th anniversary from the foundation date of the city. The celebratory programme includes a festival of national cultures, youth festival "To My Favourite City!", photo exhibitions, inter-regional festival-contest of variety songs "Kind Neighbours-2010" and other events.

This summer, Nagorno-Karabakh fixed 14 cases, when snakes bit humans; two of them were fatal. This was reported by Alen Pogosyan, deputy minister of public health of Nagorno-Karabakh. The reason of snake raised activity was in abnormally hot summer; and sometimes it is not possible to save people because hospitals lack the necessary drugs.

On September 17 in central Vladikavkaz militiamen detained Azamat Aguzarov, who sharply criticised the authorities at the rally held on September 15. This is reported by the author of the blog "Ossetia and Around: View from Inside", placed on the website of the "Caucasian Knot".

Two residents of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, - Albert Galimov, 61, and his wife Natalia Serdyukova, 47, - disappeared in the mountains of Karachai-Circassia, in the vicinity of Arkhyz.

As explained by Asmik Khachatryan, head of the PR division of the Ministry of Labour and Social Matters, the new law, prepared in Armenia, will guarantee protection of rights of people with limited capabilities.

Timur (Suleiman) Kurbanmagomedov, accused of putting kiosks selling alcohol on fire, was transferred from SIZO-1 (investigatory detention facility) of Makhachkala to the IVS (temporary detention facility) of the MIA of Dagestan. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Magomed Guchuchaliev, Kurbanmagomedov's advocate.

The prosecutor's office of Dagestan has again taken under personal control the case on the fact of execution on November 3, 2006, by law enforcers from the Kazbek ROVD (District Interior Division) of Sapiyat Magomedova, who was in the fourth month of pregnancy. This was reported on September 16 by her husband - Gasan Baisultanov.

As reported today by Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the persons Involved in the terror act in Vladikavkaz had been established. According to his story, "the investigation has moved rather far."

Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, earlier announced by Russia into international search for terrorist activities, who came to the Polish capital for taking part in the World Congress of Chechen People, can be released. This decision was made today by the Warsaw Regional Court.

As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh, a serviceman of the Karabakh Army was lost in a skirmish in the contact line of the armed forces of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

A native of Chechnya, aged 24, suspected of committing the explosion in one of hotels in Copenhagen on September 10, was detained In Denmark. A map was found on him of the second-largest Danish city of Arhus, where the address of the editorial board of the newspaper "Jyllands-Posten", which published 12 caricatures on Prophet Mohammed in 2005, was marked.

The reconciliation that took place in the end of August this year between President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov and the Yamadaev clan, represented by Isa Yamadaev, has received further development. Isa has stated that he is ready to pardon one of the two convicts in Dubai sentenced for murdering Sulim Yamadaev - Makhdi Lorniya, Ramzan Kadyrov's personal horseman.

Maikop municipal court had a session on administrative material from Rospotrebnadzor concerning a non-government educational organization "Beriozka Plus" where a mass poisoning of children had been registered.

Today, a number of Armenian mass media have published reports that the officer, whose mockeries at soldiers had been videoed and placed on the Internet on September 11, was identified and detained. However, his name is not disclosed yet, while the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia neither confirms nor refutes the information.

Kaspiysky Department of Interior Affairs reported that a militia officer had been shot down by some strangers in the evening of September, 16, near the reception room of one of the hospitals of Kaspiysk, Dagestan.

Irina Kolesnikova who arrived in Sochi together with a group of other women from Krasnodar on September, 16, in order to inform Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on raider's seizures of enterprises in Krasnodar region was released my militiamen four hours after detention.

Ahmed Zakaev, Chechen separatists' emissary, announced for federal search by Russia has been detained by Polish police.