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President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has stated that the republic's power agencies will face cadre reshuffling and dismissals. According to his story, some officials "are lazy to work" and perform their duties.

From the beginning of 2009 in Ingushetia, 68 employees of law enforcement bodies and militaries were lost, and 212 more were wounded. This was stated by Arcadiy Edelev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, in the course of the sitting.

At night on August 31, a serviceman of the local OMON (Special Militia), a division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, was assassinated in Makhachkala. This was reported by the press service of the city UVD (Interior Department); according to law enforcers, the crime was committed at about 11:00 p.m. Moscow time on August 30.

The native of Algeria, also known by nickname "Doctor Muhammad", who was liquidated in the evening on August 30 in the course of a special operation in the Khasavyurt District, was in charge of delivering militants to Dagestan and other republics of Northern Caucasus. This was reported by a source from the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia).

The investigation of the fact of the massacre committed at the Azerbaijani State Oil Academy (ASOA) will last for 4 months more, as the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source from law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan.

The persons, suspected of a conspiracy on premeditated murder of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" special GRU battalion, have rejected the presented charges.

NGO members have held an action in Chechnya in memory of the human rights activists and journalists, who were assassinated or fell victim of extrajudicial executions, with participation of Liudmila Alekseeva, chair of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG). The action took place on August 30 in the Gudermes District of the republic, where Natalia Estemirova, a well-known human rights defender and employee of the HRC "Memorial", who was kidnapped and then murdered on July 15, is buried.

On the eve of the fifth anniversary of Beslan terror act, the members of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" have addressed the parliamentarians of Northern Caucasus asking them to lobby the introduction of the status of a terror act victim before Russian President Dmitri Medvedev.

The consideration of the claim on defence of honour and dignity lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, leader of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has been postponed till September 10. Mr Orlov said that before the start of today's hearing, he had submitted a petition asking to postpone the trial, and the judge accepted his arguments and re-appointed the consideration. He added to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason was that he had no advocate.

As stated by Eka Beseliya, Secretary General of the Movement "For United Georgia", the opposition would announce its further tactics of its confrontation with President Mikhail Saakashvili in September.

As of 10:00 p.m. on August 29, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in Karagach village, Prokhladnenskiy District of Kabardino-Balkaria, introduced on August 28, was cancelled, as reported by the operative headquarters of the republic.

On Monday, August 31, the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department) will decide whether to open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The request to initiate a criminal case against Mr Orlov was submitted by Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

It is not obviously possible to identify the body of the militant-suicide bomber, who committed the terror act in Nazran, as the explosion was "of very high power", as stated today by Rashid Nurgaliev, Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia. In his opinion, it is too early to assert that the terror act was made by Said Buryatskiy.

The REN TV Russian Channel finds the fine that was imposed by Georgia for its broadcasting in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as the Channel is not broadcasting "in any of these three countries." This was reported by Anton Nazarov, head of the press service of the REN TV.

Fatima Tarasova, press secretary of the Islamic Committee of Russia (ICR), who was detained in the course of the rally of relatives of kidnapped persons on August 26 in the capital of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" about the circumstances of the incident.

As stated on August 28 by Tigran Davtyan, Minister of Finance of Armenia, 38.6 billion drams (about 102.6 million US dollars), or about 20 percent of the Russian credit have been already invested into the economy of Armenia.

Giorgiy Bokuchava, head of the transport administration of Georgia, making his comments today on the statements that Russian frontier guards will defend ships sailing to Abkhazia, has treated such actions as piracy.

The information about the death of Said Buryatskiy as a suicide bomber at the building of the Nazran GOVD is disinformation, Arcadiy Edelev, Deputy Interior Minister of Russia, believes.

On Friday, August 28, Elmira Suleimanova, Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan, had a meeting at the Baku pre-trial prison with young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism. According to Ms Suleimanova, she had applied to respective bodies on settling the case by amicable agreement of the parties, and this "issue remains in the focus."

On August 26, in Krasnoyarsk, in the Southern marketplace, a skirmish took place with participation of Azerbaijani natives. According to the militia, three persons received light wounds, one of them was hospitalized. Under informal information, one person was lost.