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Public prosecutor's office of Volgograd region has confirmed the accusation resolution against Alexander Shtokolov, ex-prosecutor of Sredneakhtuba district, who according to the investigation's version had promised assistance to an entrepreneur in granting him a legal estate for four million rubles.

Russian-speaking oppositional party "For human rights in integrated Latvia" (FHRIL) won a lawsuit in the Administrative district court against Riga municipal Duma which had forbidden a piquet of the adherents of renaming Johar Dudaev street.

Informational center of National counter-terror committee (NCTC) reported that during two special operations going on in Kaspiisk and Makhachkala today ten gunmen have been killed.

In the evening on September 27, unidentified persons opened fire on the base of the frontier unit deployed in the centre of Nazran. Nobody was hurt.

At today's parliamentary hearings at the standing commission of the National Assembly of Armenia on science, education, culture, youth and sports on discussing the draft amendments to the Laws "On the Language" and "On General Education", Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education, said that the government gave up the intention to amend the Law "On the Language".

On September, 27, operative agents detained three natives of Chechnya within the boundaries of an operation against a supposed terrorist network. DCRI, the French department of counter-intelligence, is carrying out the investigation.

International sports court of arbitration has declined Garry Kasparov's and Anatoly Karpov's suits on unlawfulness of nomination of Kirsan Iliumjinov, President of FIDE, by the Russian Chess Federation for the next term at this position and his registration as nominee for FIDE presidency. The news was reported on September, 27 by Kirsan Iliumjinov himself.

Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian militants, has blamed Arabian mercenary Mukhannad for splitting the command of "Imarat Kavkaz".

A round table conference was held on September, 17, in the district center of Itum-Kale, Chechen republic. It was devoted to the problems of women in Chechnya and arranged by a regional non-governmental organization "Trust" dealing with protection of women's rights. Abu-Said Aziev, kadi of Itum-Kale district participating in the conference declared that no man who was not a woman's relative had a right to admonish on her appearance.

Even if an application of a resident of Ingushetia was not directly sent to the president, but just appeared on the Internet, the republic's leader will automatically appoint a check of the facts and take actions, Kaloy Akhilgov, press secretary of Ingush President, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A homemade explosive device was activated on September, 27, near V.I. Lenin monument located in front of the building of Dagestan State Teachers' training university (DSTTU) in the capital of Dagestan. A source in the Ministry of interior affairs of the republic reported today there were no victims of the explosion.

Unidentified persons opened automatic fire on the militiamen, who stood with his friends at the entrance to one of the restaurants in the city of Izberbash. After the incident four persons were hospitalized.

The statement of the HRC "Memorial" says that on September 24, 2010, agents of local law enforcement bodies kidnapped seven residents of Davydenko village, Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya.

Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has drawn attention to the problem of Alexandra Tanina from Grozny, now residing in a refugee camp in Nazran, who is afraid of losing her housing in the capital of Chechnya. According to Timur Akiev, head of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial", the problem of losing apartments in Chechnya is a systemic one.

Today in the morning, the head of the village administration of Kakamakhi was killed. As reported by the spokesman of the local MIA, militiamen managed to detain the suspect - a casualty's relative.

The killer of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is known; he is in the territory of Russia; and steps are taken to arrest him, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), said today at the meeting with a delegation from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.

Employees of the UVD (Interior Division) for the city of Nalchik have prevented a terror act, the Kabardino-Balkarian MIA has reported today. Simultaneously, two self-made explosive devices with a total capacity of up to one TNT (trotyl) kilogram were found in the heart of a residential district of the capital of the republic.

The court in Sochi has sentenced the head of a rural district to 12 years in prison for stealing more than 300 land plots worth over 1 billion roubles.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has not confirmed the diagnosis of "Siberian plague" in two hospitalized farm workers from the Beloglinskiy District, the head of the territorial agency's department has reported today.

The collegium of the Ministry of Justice has amended the "Rules of Internal Discipline in Correction Establishments" aimed to ensure prisoners' rights.