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The information about formation of a special unit of interior troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Dagestan was differently taken by the local people. Denga Khalidov, head of the Centre of Strategic and Ethno-Political Studies of Russia, believes that Dagestan has pretty plenty of other power structures. On the other hand, the authorities of the republic hope that local residents will be better protected from those who want to destabilize the situation.

Suicide bombers blow themselves up in Northern Caucasus at the background of deepened split in "Imarat Kavkaz"; Vice-President of Abkhazia survives after another attempt; and the head of Ingushetia loses his advisor, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 20-26, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Law enforcers of the Krasnodar Territory have revealed a person who spread of rumours about terror acts to be committed in Krasnodar on the Day of the City - September 25. It is Nikolai Evenko, 27, a former leading specialist of the Municipal Institution "City Bureau of Outdoor Advertising and Information".

The Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Igor Provkin, former senator from Kalmykia, suspected of sexual abuse of Moscow female student, the press service of the Court has reported today. Thus, the Court has satisfied the yesterday's petition of the investigation.

On Saturday, October 2, at 2 p.m., the city of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, plans to host a rally, where the organizers plan to protest against inefficient actions of the authorities in their fight against extremism and human rights violations.

The native of Chechnya, who was detained on September 27 in Western France, is kept behind bars within the investigation of terrorist activities, said the Paris Prosecutor's Office.

In the course of special operations conducted in Kaspiisk and Makhachkala fourteen persons were liquidated; they were blocked in private houses and, according to power agents, rendered armed resistance. Currently, special-purpose fighters start inspecting the premises, where the alleged militants had hid.

Ten residents of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo charged of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2009 were presented new charges by the investigation - of blowing up the same "Neva-Express" train in 2007.

Public prosecutor's office of Volgograd region has confirmed the accusation resolution against Alexander Shtokolov, ex-prosecutor of Sredneakhtuba district, who according to the investigation's version had promised assistance to an entrepreneur in granting him a legal estate for four million rubles.

Informational center of National counter-terror committee (NCTC) reported that during two special operations going on in Kaspiisk and Makhachkala today ten gunmen have been killed.

In the evening on September 27, unidentified persons opened fire on the base of the frontier unit deployed in the centre of Nazran. Nobody was hurt.

On September, 27, operative agents detained three natives of Chechnya within the boundaries of an operation against a supposed terrorist network. DCRI, the French department of counter-intelligence, is carrying out the investigation.

Dokku Umarov, leader of North-Caucasian militants, has blamed Arabian mercenary Mukhannad for splitting the command of "Imarat Kavkaz".

A homemade explosive device was activated on September, 27, near V.I. Lenin monument located in front of the building of Dagestan State Teachers' training university (DSTTU) in the capital of Dagestan. A source in the Ministry of interior affairs of the republic reported today there were no victims of the explosion.