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In Astrakhan, Head of Department for cooperation with legal entities and individuals on issues of external improvements and status of infrastructure facilities of the city administration was detained for bribe-taking.

Within the investigation into the murder of the human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, inspectors check all the versions, including involvement of power agents. They already have a suspect, as stated today by Alexei Vasilkov, Deputy Head of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The Association of Young Lawyers of Georgia (AYLG) has questioned, after seeing the examination results, the official version of the death of Niko Kvintradze, who died, as the police assert, from an electric shock, when he was hiding on the roof of a house during the dispersal of the May 26 demonstration. According to the AYLG, Kvintradze was detained by policemen during the dispersal.

On September 2, the Pre-Volga District Military Court considered the cassation complaint lodged by Ruslan Kibirov, a native of North Ossetia, against the verdict of the Saratov Garrison Court.

The death of a nineteen-years-old soldier of statutory service Aik Mkrtchyan has been a result of a quarrel with his colleague, not careless weapon handling, Deputy Minister of Defense of Armenia Vladimir Gasparyan declared.

During trial on the criminal case of murder of football fan Yegor Sviridov in Moscow city court on September, 7, defendant Aslan Cherkesov challenged juryman number two and state prosecutor Maria Semenenko. The challenge was declined. Besides, two witnesses were interrogated during the session.

Today members of the power ministries are carrying out special operations of capturing gunmen in three republics of Northern Caucasus: Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and Ingushetia. This was reported by official representative of National Anti-Terrorist Committee (NAC) Nicolay Sintsov.

After an appeal of Maksharip Aushev's family and friends to President and Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Chief Directorate of the Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Southern and North-Caucasian Federal okrug recommenced investigation of the criminal case on the fact of the Ingush human rights activist's murder.

The head of the technical part of the Rostov Law Institute (RLI) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia is suspected of official malfeasance - embezzling of the institute's funds and forgery.

One of the defendants on the case of riots at Manege Square in Moscow in last December pled guilty in incriminated deeds, two defendants pled guilty in part, and two others did not consider themselves guilty.

On September 6, the Dzerzhinsk District Court of Volgograd held the first session on the case of Nikolai Volkov, ex-deputy of the Regional Duma, who is accused of a series of sexual crimes against children, forging a passport and escape, and a series of crimes against sexual inviolability of juveniles. At the trial, Volkov pled guilty.

Start of construction of "Arkhyz" Resort in the mountains of Karachay-Cherkessia and crash of helicopter with officials; a triple terror act in Grozny on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, committed by suicide bombers; mourning events in memory of the victims of the 2004 Beslan tragedy; first nominee for presidency in South Ossetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 29-September 4, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Aik Mkrtchyan, a 19-year-old regular soldier of the Armenian Army, perished as a result of violation of rules for handling weapons by Lendrush Nazlukhanyan, his colleague. This was reported by the press service of Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh.

According to obtained information, as a result of an armed attack in the city of Makhachkala, Gadjibutta Alunkachaev, the deputy of the District Assembly of Novolakskoe District of Dagestan, was wounded and his relative was killed. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of Dagestan.

Military investigators check information about holding soldier Andrei Popov as a slave at a brick factory in Dagestan.