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The litigation on the hooliganism case initiated against young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli will start at the Sabail District Court of Baku on September 4 at 3:00 p.m. local time. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by advocate Isakhan Ashurov.

The terrorist-suicide bomber, who blew up the ROVD building in Nazran on August 17, could be Alexander Tikhomirov, 27, one of the main Wahhabites' ideologists in Northern Caucasus, also known as Sheikh Said Buryatskiy. In a video record that appeared in the Internet he declares his intention to commit a terror act.

In Georgia, on August 26, after four years of imprisonment, journalist Shalva Ramishvili, owner of the TV Company "202", will be released.

On August 24, Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, said, after his working visit to Dagestan, that in Northern Caucasus 78 murders had been ascribed to the persons who never committed them.

The "Reporters without Borders" (RwB), an international organization defending the freedom of press, has rendered financial help to the family of convicted journalist Mushvig Guseinov, an employee of the newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way).

Separatists of Chechnya have sentenced one of their emissaries Ahmed Zakaev to death. In their opinion, he betrayed Islam, having recognized the legitimacy of Ramzan Kadyrov's government.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) (located in Azerbaijan) has considered the appeal complaint lodged by Khakimeldost Mekhtiev, a correspondent of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), against the decision of the Nakhichevan Court to reject Mr Mekhtiev's claim against Sabukhi Novruzov, boss of the city police.

Spot-checks are organized in this city by local UVD (Interior Department) together with the city-based road-guard regiment aimed to reveal infringers of Traffic Regulations (TRs) driving cars without number plates and with the so-called "special number series". However, local residents find these actions inefficient.

The terrorist-suicide bomber, who has blown up militiamen today in the morning in the Shali District of Chechnya, was a member of the grouping of field commander Muslim Gakaev. His name was Magomed Shakhidov, a resident of Argun, as asserted by local law enforcers.

In Russia, where the count of racially-motivated crimes is on a rapid rise, same as the army of skinheads, the decision of black-skinned Joachim Krima to run for a duma deputy of the Sredneakhtuba District of the Volgograd Region has caused a stormy interest. Along with solution of domestic problems of his fellow villagers, the candidate is ready, if elected to the local government, to overcome the racism, so deeply rooted in the consciousness of local residents.

Kakha Katsitadze, a Georgian political scientist, does not believe that the States are seriously considering any transfer of Guantanamo inmates to Georgian prisons; he thinks that this is an initiative of local authorities.

The resident of Dagestan, who disappeared right from his workplace on August 17, was found on August 19 among the "trophies" of a special operation. Over 20 bullets were extracted from his body, which had numerous traces of violence. As reported by the HRC "Memorial", the body would not be given out to relatives, until it is proved that the man was not involved in terrorism.

Today, in the square in front of the house of government of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, relatives of kidnapped persons have held their rally. According to different sources, from 50 to 200 persons took part in it demanding to stop kidnappings and murders of young people in the republic.

In the evening on August 24, activists who rallied in the Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow to commemorate Natalia Estemirova on the 40th day after her murder demanded resignation of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

The Kobuleti City Court has set free on bail Rati Milorava, son of Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the oppositional party "Movement for United Georgia", while her brother Sergo Beseliya will have to spend two months in pre-trial custody.

On August 23, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), when a local district militiaman was moving in his car, a powerful explosive was triggered. The militiaman did not suffer; and as reported by a source in the republic's power bodies, the culprits have been established.

On August 23, in the submontane Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, a local minor was wounded by explosion of unidentified ordnance.

On August 23, in the course of a combat clash that burst out in the Shali District of Chechnya, a soldier of the Internal Troops of Russian MIA was lost, and four militaries were wounded.

It was reported by Moscow law enforcement bodies that they detained a citizen of Azerbaijan, suspected of kidnapping, together with his four accomplices, of a compatriot with further extortion of some 800,000 US dollars from him.

Young members of a number of Armenian NGOs have addressed the president, prime minister and speaker of the parliament with an appeal to immediately publicly defend Mariam Sukhudyan, who is accused of disseminating false information about sexual harassments of pupils by a boarding school teacher.