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The Moscow City Court has upheld the extension until December 7 the custody of Rustam Makhmudov, accused of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the press service of the court reports.

According to the latest data, the explosion of a car in Dagestan killed eight persons, including an 11-year-old girl.

On September, 27, during a trial on the case of gunmen's assault at Nalchik in autumn, 2005, in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, three witnesses who at the moment of the assault were servicemen of the frontier department which underwent the gunmen's attack bore evidence.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russia to pay 63,000 euros to Aminat Beksultanova, a resident of Chechnya, who had accused power agents of illegal detention and murder of her son. Besides, she accused the Russian government of a failure to conduct an investigation into his disappearance.

Husein Khubolov, one of the defendants on the case of an assault at Nalchik went on a hunger strike. This became known at a next scheduled trial.

Recognition of independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by the Pacific State of Tuvalu; PACE inspection of TACs of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia; terror act with dozens of victims; the fifth within a month attempt on high-ranking law enforcer; and the trial of policemen accused of beating lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, which ended without starting in Dagestan, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 19-25, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

At the trial on the case of the attack on the Baksan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), interrogation of six witnesses failed, as they came to the session without their IDs.

At the Sabail District Court of Baku, at the trial of four oppositionists, arrested for taking part in the April 2 rally, the state prosecutor Djeikhun Kyazimov asked to sentence the accused to 2.5 and 3 years of imprisonment.

Igor Berezniuk, defendant on the case of mass disturbances in Manezhnaya square of Moscow last December, appealed against his arrest to the European Court of Human Rights. This was reported by Dmitry Agranovsky acting as the defendant's attorney today.

Today, the rural settlement of Ekazhevo, Nazran District of Ingushetia, hosts an extraordinary gathering of villagers in protest against detention on September 18 of Ali Dobriev, Senior Assistant of the Sunzha District Prosecutor, on suspicion of organizing an illegal armed formation (IAF) and preparing a terror act.

Investigators suspect the employee of the State Corporation (SC) "Olympstroy", who took part in concluding of an unlawful agreement on compensation for the property, alienated with the aim of preparation of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, of a large-scale fraud.

Today, at the session of the North-Caucasian District Military Court, the defendants figuring in the case of the so-called "Urman Jamaat" asked the judges to pass a fair decision.

The lawyer Mussa Pliev has announced today that the official representatives of the relatives of the assassinated Ingush opposition leader Maksharip Aushev will ask the prosecutor's office to supervise the further investigation into his murder, so that it was brought to an end. Should the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) fail to move forward with the investigation of the murder, they intend to appeal to international organizations.