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The middle son of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne, detained on September 3 in Tbilisi Airport on charges of a coup d'etat in Georgia, refuses to plead guilty, reports Keti Bekauri, one of his advocates.

Gyulnara Rustamova, leader of the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and sister of Vadim Butdaev, who is accused of murdering journalist Telman Alishaev and UBOP Major Arsen Zakaryaev, has stated that the latter had been long prosecuted her family.

The information about participation of commander of the OMON (Special Militia) of Ingushetia in murdering Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", is not confirmed. Magomed Tsoroev has alibi and is ready to swear on the Koran of his innocence.

In Chechnya, investigation goes on of the circumstances of the murder of Askhab Zakriev, 17, who died, as reported, for the guilt of power agents. A criminal case on the fact of the incident was initiated under Article "Causing death by imprudence (manslaughter)".

According to today's decision of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia will soften the visa regime with the Russian Federation. All RF citizens can now get Georgian visas at all check point by paying 30 US dollars.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is sure that the ruling regime in Georgia is incapable, and President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili is a "dead politician." Dmitri Medvedev also noted that the United States should reconsider their relations with Georgian authorities, "because of their aggression, which killed over a thousand persons."

President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega has expressed his support to Russia in seeking the solution of the conflict in the Caucasus through a dialogue with European countries and has declared his recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

A spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has refuted the information that believers are prosecuted in this country for their faith.

The state prosecutor has demanded to sentence the defendants accused of exploding the "Pyatigorsk-Stavropol" route bus at the bus station of the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, in December 2007, when three passengers were killed and 17 wounded, to long terms of imprisonment.

Criminal cases on suspicion of attempting to seize firearms from employees of law enforcement bodies have been initiated against Maksharip Aushev and Magomed Khazbiev, leaders of the Ingush opposition.

The actions in memory of the victims of Beslan tragedy were held in the cities of Russia.

As of September 3, 71 Russian peacekeepers are regarded to be casualties and 340 more as wounded victims as a result of Georgia's aggression, said Sergey Fridinskiy, Chief Military Public Prosecutor of the Russian Federation, during the TV-Bridge Show held with the city of Tskhinvali.

In the opinion of the investigation, Telman Alishaev's fight on Wahhabism was the main reason of the attempt on the TV reporter who died this night in the capital of Dagestan from received wounds.

The USA urge Russian leaders to conduct a complete investigation of the circumstances around the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru", Sean McCormack, spokesman of the US Department of State, said in a briefing.

On September 1, the participants of the extraordinary EU summit held in Brussels condemned recognition by Russia of Abkhazia's and South Ossetian's independence. In his turn, Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, current EU chair, has called to continue dialogue with Moscow and not to break partnership relations.

In Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, an attack was made today on Miloslav Bitokov, editor-in-chief of the independent "Newspaper of the South". He was beaten in the doorway of his own house and hospitalized, as the editorial board of the newspaper reported.

Tonight, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Russian adviser-envoy Andrei Smaga was served a note on break of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The death from militia's hands of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", can be compared with the murder of lady-journalist Anna Politkovskaya; it evidences aggravation of the situation with the freedom of press in Russia, said Miklosh Charasti, OSCE representative on media freedom.

Ombudsman in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev has demanded, in the context of death in the Kurchaloy District of Askhab Zakriev, 17, that the Military Prosecutor's Office finish the investigation of all the crimes committed by Sulim Yamadaev, commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion and his fighters.

Despite all the authorities' attempts to translate political struggle into violent actions, the opposition will stick to its principles of holding protests exclusively within the law. This was stated by Levon Ter-Petrosyan, first president of Armenia and leader of the opposition, on September 2 in a press conference. Levon Ter-Petrosyan has also presented three documents, which, by his definition, are of great value for opening a "monstrous plot" of the authorities against the opposition.