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In Ulyanovsk, investigators suspect 42-year-old Nakhid Zakhidov of the attack on Islam Guseinov, Chairman of the Ulyanovsk Regional Branch of the All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress.

The criminal case against Zakir Magomedov and Shovkhal Didiev, who were sentenced to nine and eight years of imprisonment on charges of embezzling more than 114 million roubles from the military unit of the regiment of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in Chechnya, came to the North-Caucasian Military Garrison Court in Rostov-on- Don.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Commission on adaptation of militants received 38 appeals since the start of its work. This was reported by Boris Kyasov, the acting head on security and cooperation with law enforcement agencies of the administration of the Kabardino-Balkarian leader.

The judicial investigation into the case against Ilham Amiraslanov, an activist of the headquarters of the civil society "Kura", was not objective, and it included violations of procedural norms. This was reported by Mekhman Aliev, a staff member of the headquarters of the civil society "Kura", Director of the "Turan" news agency.

Rustam Dikinov, a resident of the city of Baksan of Kabardino-Balkaria, who earlier claimed being kidnapped and who served his sentence on charges of possessing a grenade, fears of new kidnapping and reports being surveyed by unidentified persons. In that regard, he asks power agents to ensure his safety.

Two residents of Dagestan from the Khunzakh and Akhty Districts filed complaints to the police about disappearance of their relatives, which occurred on September 10 and September 5 in Makhachkala and the village of Khryug, respectively.

Resident of the settlement of Karabudakhkent, Dagestan, Magomednabi Nazhmutdinov complains of investigators who refused to initiate a criminal case against persons who according to him committed coercive sexual actions to his underage daughter. Representatives of investigative bodies informed that after refusal of starting criminal proceedings inquiry upon Nazhmutdinov's statement was recommenced upon discovery of new facts.

On September 11, Ms Bekauri lodged a suit to the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia demanding to investigate the fact of infliction of bodily injuries to her client Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya. She told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has refused to make the trial of Vyacheslav Merekha, who became disabled as a result of supposed torture and rape at the Predgorny ROVD (District Interior Division) in December 2010.

Gazimagomed Gaziev, a resident of the township of Shamkhal-Station, Kirov District of Makhachkala, asks to transfer his son Shamil Gaziev, who is serving his term in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District for committing a double terror act in Kizlyar on March 31, 2010, out of a punitive confinement into a prison cell.

Elections to local self-government in Armenia, discussion of Chechen-Ingush border raised by head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov; release of Azerbaijani poets arrested in Iran; shelling of military column with killing of six servicemen; motor rally "White Stream", within which opposition held meetings and actions in Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Krasnodar and Stavropol, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 3-9, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Investigating authorities of Karachay-Cherkessia have opened a criminal case on incitement to suicide of Andrei Altukhov, 9, a pupil of the republic's children's home for orphans and children left without parental care.

Tsotne, the son of the first Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, has again gone on hunger strike in prison demanding better custody conditions in prisons.

Convict from Dagestan Arthur Khanaliev who is serving his penalty in a colony of Lipetsk region declared his intention to go on a hunger strike on September, 9, as a sign of protest against groundless, in his opinion, being regularly placed in a lockup during several months, his attorney Abdurahman Abdurahmanov reports. The lawyer demands to call all those guilty to account.