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The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation has stated that Seifutdin Kaziakhmedov, head of the department for investigation of especially important cases of the investigatory department for Dagestan, was killed by Omar Ramazanov, leader of the "Makhachkala Jama'at" who was liquidated on June 12 in the course of a special operation in Makhachkala.

On August 19, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev expressed his extreme discontent with the system of power existing in Northern Caucasus and offered to optimize the structures of interdepartmental interaction by involving staff from other regions for this purpose.

As reported by Ruslan Alkhanov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, local law enforcement bodies have identified the today's suicide bombers, who committed explosions in central Grozny.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has decided to interrupt his post-injury rehabilitation course and fly to the republic today because of the aggravation of the situation there.

The Kremlin has called "idiotic" the version about involvement of militants under command of their leader in Northern Caucasus Doku Umarov in the accident at the Sayan-Shusheno Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) and refused to make any comments.

In the Rostov Region, miners-pensioners from the city of Zverevo continue their protest action by picketing the North-Caucasian Railway. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Valery Dyakonov, a deputy of the City Duma of Zverevo.

Ecologists Andrei Rudomakha and Suren Gazaryan, detained in the construction site of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway in Sochi, will spend this night in the remand cell (known as "KPZ"). Their mobile phones were taken away.

The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has made the statement, in which it imposed the political responsibility for the death on August 17 in custody of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), on the authorities of the country.

More than a month after kidnapping and murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the investigation still has no idea of the organizers and executors of the crime. Witnesses are afraid to evidence on the case.

In Yerevan, at the building of the investigatory department of the Erebuni community, an action took place in support of Mariam Sukhudyan, a young woman and an activist of the Movement "SOS Tekhut", accused by Armenian law enforcers of a false denunciation of a former teacher of special school No. 11 of Nubarashen.

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court has rejected the cassation complaint of the oppositional politician Boris Nemtsov against the refusal of the subordinate court - the Tsentralny District Court of the city of Sochi - to cancel the outcomes of the election of the Mayor of Sochi.

The number of those who suffered in the explosion in Nazran has increased from 160 up to 262 persons, as reported by a spokesman of the social care division of the governments of Ingushetia. This rapid growth in the number of victims was noted by social care bodies after compensations to the victims had been announced.

In Georgia, on August 19, employees of the territorial interior department of Adzharia detained in the city of Kobuleti the son and brother of Eka Beseliya, secretary general of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia". Employees of the MIA accuse them of hooliganism; however, Ms Beseliya believes that her relatives are innocent and accuses power agents of "repressions".

The MIA of Ingushetia has reported that law enforcement bodies of the republic have information about preparation of new terror acts, similar to the explosion at the GOVD building in Nazran.

At the trial on events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, defendants asked the court to make a break for Ramadan, the Moslems' sacred month.

Activists-ecologists Andrei Rudomakha and Suren Gazaryan, participants of the action against felling on the route of the Adler-Krasnaya Polyana highway in Sochi, are have been detained by the militia in the place of the action and are now transported to the city. They told about it by telephone to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, early in the morning, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, arson was committed of the rented apartment, where the office of human rights activists is located. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights".

Within several recent days, special units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in the number of three regiments, have been transferred from the adjacent regions of the South Federal District (SFD) and deployed in Dagestan. This is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent with reference to reliable sources.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has started its investigation into the facts of interrogating by the Azerbaijani Ministry of National Security (MNS) of the citizens of the country who gave their votes for Armenian participants of the contest "Eurovision-2009".

Zurab Abashidze, one of the leaders of the Party "Our Georgia - Free Democrats" has announced that within a week that elapsed after negotiations of a part of the non-parliamentary opposition with Ministers of Internal Affairs and Justice of Georgia 10 activists of this opposition group were released from custody.