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The court decisions have been received on the so-called "tea case" in relation to human rights activists of the Krasnodar Territory who had been fined for a non-sanctioned tea-drinking party with foreigners.

General Arkadiy Edelev, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, has stated in Grozny that the number of crimes connected with kidnappings has dropped fivefold in Chechnya.

On September 30, 11 persons were shot dead in Dagestan. Today, a sitting of the Security Council and a joint meeting with the heads of the Ministry of Defence and the workers of law enforcement bodies "On Operative and Social-Political Situation in Dagestan" were held in Makhachkala.

Mikhail Trepashkin, a former FSB officer, has stated that Lyubov Kosik, his defender in the city of Nizhni Tagil, is working for the accusation and delivers his defence materials to them.

As a result of a joint operation of the Ministry of National Security and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Fighting Organized Crime, accomplished in the village of Khudat of the Khachmaz District, religious literature was confiscated from the houses of several residents and about ten persons had been detained.

A joint report, prepared by the Initiative for Human Rights and Safety, Centre of Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Robert Bosch Foundation and entitled "49 Steps Towards Ensuring Human Rights and Safety in Northern Caucasus" has been published.

The criminal prosecution of Khasan Didigov accused of involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

During a week, the girls wearing hijabs could not get to their school lessons in the city of Sumgait (Azerbaijan).

The former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili was sentenced by decision of the Tbilisi City Court to two months of custodial arrest for the period of investigation.

Practically all the residents of the village, as well as of the neighbouring ones, came to the funeral of Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, minister of the local mosque, who was killed today morning in the Dagestan village of Gubden. They regard that the murder was motivated by religious hatred.

The Dagestan residents of the city of Kizilyurt, who suffered from radiation when liquidating the implications of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident, failed to receive their due allowances.

Three relatives of the Galaev brothers, who were arrested on September 27, have been released. The brothers were killed on suspicion of involvement in illegal armed formations.

The advocates of the former Georgian Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili were not admitted into the courtroom, where his freedom restriction measure was decided.

The several thousand strong protest action launched by the opposition parties at two p.m. at the building of the Parliament of Georgia in Tbilisi, is over.

On September 27, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia reported about a special operation conducted in Sagopshi settlement of the Malgobek District, as a result of which brothers Said-Magomed and Ruslan Galaev, active participants of illegal armed formations, were assassinated.

Ali Insanov, former Azerbaijani Minister of Public Health, was sent to Colony No. 13 for further serving his punishment.

On September 28, Vladimir Vlasov, Public Prosecutor of the city of Zverevo, informed that the eight hunger-strikers had suspended their protest action.

The Public TV of Azerbaijan will no longer broadcast the religious program "Friday Talks."

In the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, a deceived depositor of the "Social Initiative" Construction Corporation has tried to commit suicide by jumping from the bridge into River Terek.

On September 27, Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-lieutenant colonel of the FSB, condemned for disclosure of state secrets, was delivered from Corrective Colony No. 13 of Nizhni Tagil, where he was serving his term, to SIZO-1 of Ekaterinburg.