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On September 25, the Office of the Government of Russia registered the appeal lodged by the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. It urges Mr Putin to save the Grushevoy Ridge from Sochi's commercial non-Olympic build-up by including the Ridge into the territory specially protected by the law.

Representatives of all Ossetian Diasporas plan to hold the worldwide action under the motto "South Ossetia accuses!" It will start on September 26 in Tskhinvali, Vladikavkaz, Moscow, countries of Western Europe and the USA.

Today, in the outskirt of the city of Tskhinvali, the capital of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), an explosion took place. Atsamaz Gelaevich Dzagoev, 13, a shepherd and a Tskhinvali resident, who detected the explosive, was killed.

These minutes, the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow is hosting the "Mistrust Day" - a picket dedicated to the ninth anniversary of the "FSB's exercises" held in the city of Ryazan on September 22-23, 1999.

The accusations of the Georgian party of organizing the explosion near the building of the State Security Service (SSS) of Abkhazia are groundless, insists Alexander Lomaya, Secretary of the Security Council of Georgia. As he said, the reasons for the explosion should be sought in contradictions inside the Abkhazian leadership.

The murder in Moscow of Ruslan Yamadaev, former deputy of the State Duma of Russia and a member of Yamadaev clan, which is in enmity with President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, can lead to serious consequences in Chechnya, some local observers assert.

Soon, the Museum of Russian Aggression will be created in the city of Gori. This was declared yesterday, on September 24, by the Minister of Culture Nikoloz Vacheishvili at a sitting of the Committee for Culture Matters of the Parliament of Georgia.

Today, the Mission of the Office of Democratic Institutes and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE has published its progress report on situation in Azerbaijan on the eve of the presidential election appointed on October 15.

Rosa Malsagova, editor-in-chief of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru", has declared that she will not delete from her website the list of thirteen names, who had been, in the opinion of Magomed Evloev's relatives, the customers and direct performers of murdering the former owner of the web resource.

On September 23, speaking from the rostrum of the United Nations, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy condemned the Russia's decision to unilaterally recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

In the centre of Moscow, Ruslan Yamadaev, ex-deputy of Russian State Duma, was assassinated, not his brother Sulim Yamadaev, former commander of the "Vostok" battalion deployed in Chechnya, as reported earlier. The news was announced by Valery Gribakin, head of the PR Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

In Chechnya, on September 23, the Grozny Garrison Military Court started considering the civil suits lodged by former militaries of the special-purpose battalion "Vostok" (East) of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation against their early dismissal from military service.

A threat of religious extremism will always endanger Azerbaijan, unless the country establishes genuine democracy, asserts Arif Yunus, head of the Department of Conflictology and Migration of the Institute of Peace and Democracy.

In Abkhazia, yesterday, on September 22, Nika Dzhalagoniya, 15, a resident of village Bargyab, Gali District, returned home. He was thought to be kidnapped.

Liudmila Alekseeva, head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, believes that Ingush authorities are terrorizing their population in the manner of Stalin's repressions of 1937. She said it in the press conference on September 22 in the Independent Press Centre in Moscow on the results of her visit to this North Caucasian republic.

Democratic candidate to the position of US President Barack Obama has recognized, in his message on the occasion of the Day of Independence of Armenia on September 21, the fact of genocide of Armenians in Ottoman Turkey during World War I.

The Georgian party is still keeping six Ossetians captured during the August 7-13 war in South Ossetia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by David Sanakoev, Ombudsman under President of the Republic of South Ossetia.

The Centre in Defence of Refugees' and Forced Migrants' Rights of Azerbaijan wants to organize independent public tribunal on Khodzhaly tragedy.

Russia experiences growth of racist spirits, believes Michael Had, member of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). While presenting the ECRI's report for the Russian Federation, Mr Had has noted that as a whole, the public opinion in relation to national minorities in Russia has worsened.

Human Rights Watch asserts that the situation of anarchy in the Georgia-South Ossetia conflict zone promotes attacks and the atmosphere of fear, therefore, the mandate of the European Union's mission should assume defence of civilians.