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In North Ossetia, the Lenin District Court of Vladikavkaz has dismissed today the motion lodged by the advocates of Igor Bestuzhy, the former head of the administration of the city of Stavropol, suspected of bribery, to initiate a criminal investigation on the application of their client about the use of torture against him at the temporary detention centre (known as IVS).

Doctors of the ambulance, called again to the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran, insists hospitalization of Ali Khazbiev, brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist and activist of the party "Parnas", who was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Doctors fear for his health.

Abdurakhman Kurskiev, Ilez Merzhoev and Ibragim Bekbuzarov, who were shot dead in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, rendered no resistance and were armless, said their relatives-eyewitnesses of the incident. They turned to the police, the head of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking to investigate the killings. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia said that the casualties were militants and resisted detention.

Murder in a suicide bombing in Dagestan of Sheikh Said Afandi and gunfire at the frontier post; special operation to free hostages in Georgia; pardoning of Ramil Safarov, found guilty of murdering Armenian officer, in Azerbaijan; commemoration of casualties of 2004 Beslan terror act, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 27-September 2, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, who was convicted for preparing a terror acts in Moscow in the mall "Okhotny Ryad", has been released.

The advocates of Adam Osmaev, who is under arrest in Ukraine as the main suspect in the case on preparing a terror act against the President of the Russian Federation, is, cannot meet their client after July 18, Amina Okueva, Osmaev's common-law wife, said today.

On September, 2, Zholt Nemet, State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Hungary, lodged a note of protest to the Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Budapest expressing dissatisfaction with the judgment of pardon to Ramil Safarov who killed an Armenian officer in 2004.

Two local residents in Pyatigorsk were hospitalized with wounding as a result of a mass scuffle with the use of a traumatic gun.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia identified seven out of 11 persons killed in a special operation in the Lopota Gorge, near the Georgian-Russian border. According to the Ministry, two of them are citizens of Georgia.

Spartak Gukasyan, a son of the Mayor of the city of Gyumri, is accused of disorderly conduct and illegal possession of weapons within the criminal case opened on the fact of a fight and shooting in Gyumri on August 24, said Sonya Truzyan, the press secretary of the General Public Prosecutor.

The two suspected militants, killed in the village Leninket in Dagestan, were identified as Said Kurbanov and Magomed Tamuraev; a young pregnant woman was released from the house where the militants were hiding, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

During the last twelve years, in the territory of Russia, 46 female suicide bombers committed 26 terror acts (some terror acts involved several women at the same time).

The Judicial Board of the Moscow City Court has cancelled the decision of the Tver District Court about putting Vladimir Zhamborov, accused of a major theft of state property at the sale of the Philharmonic Hall in Nalchik, behind bars, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports from the courtroom. The case was sent for a new consideration.

In connection with the clashes of Georgian special units with an armed grouping in Lopota Gorge, the NATO Headquarters hosted a sitting of the NATO-Georgia Commission. Also, a statement expressing concern about the incident was issued by the European Union.