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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.

On September, 16, residents of Volgodonsk, Rostov region, paid tribute to the victims of the act of terror which took place eleven years ago.

On September 15, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began considering the claim of six Azerbaijanis against Armenia. The claimants state violation of their civil rights in 1991-1992 during the Karabakh war.

On September 15, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began considering the claim lodged by citizen of Armenia Minas Sarkisyan against Azerbaijan. The applicant states violation of his civil rights during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh.

By now, the presence in Poland of Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, who is in international search, has been confirmed by his assistant Aslambek Kekharsaev, representative of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Poland, who had earlier refuted the information that appeared in the morning in Polish media that Zakaev had already arrived in Warsaw.

The Russians who had lost their housing facilities in Abkhazia lodged a cassation complaint against the court decision, which upheld the actions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in addressing their property issues in this Caucasian republic.