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The active stage of a special operation in the village of Kirovaul, Kizyl-Yurt district of Dagestan, where a group of armed people was blocked in a private house has been accomplished. According to preliminary information reported by our source in law enforcement bodies of the republic, four gunmen were killed, a woman among them.

Akop Ovannisyan, former employee of Armenia's consulate in Los Angeles, arrested one year ago in the USA on charges of forging documents, has pled guilty at the trial. The US legislation stipulates up to 5 years of imprisonment for this crime.

The prosecutor's office of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the head of one of the divisions of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as UFSIN), detained for extorting bribes from conditional convicts.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria, which has extended today by other three months the custody of 57 defendants in the case dealing with the militants' attack on Nalchik in October 2005, believes that the grounds to keep them behind bars have not changed.

The political board of the political movement "Amtsakhara" of veterans of the 1992-1993 people's war of Abkhazia condemns the attempt on Vice-President Alexander Ankvab.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to Khavazhi Yusupov, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for the attempt in May 2009 on Isa Yamadaev, a brother of assassinated ex-deputy of the State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev.

Alexander Ankvab, Vice-president of Abkhazia, got wounded as a result of an attempt at him tonight.

European Committee against tortures and inhuman or humiliating treatment (ECAT) welcomes the drastic steps taken by Georgian authorities for avoidance of cruel treatment, as it is emphasized in the report of ECAT.

Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported an explosion on the way of a militia car in Kizyl-Yurt.

On September, 21, Doku Umarov, head of Chechen gunmen, deprived Aslanbek Vadalov, Khusein Gakaev and Tarkhan Gaziev, leaders of Chechen sector of "Caucasus" Imarat, of their ranks and titles for having disobeyed him. On Umarov's decision the degraded commanders had to be brought before shariat court.

Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia has published the names of the officer and two soldiers - heroes of the video "True Face of Our Army" placed on the Internet. According to the statement of the Ministry, Major Sasun Galstyan was arrested and is accused of abusing his official duties. The regular service sergeant and a private have been recognized as victims.

Lawyer Dzhamilya Tagirova, who was beaten by Kerim Mazaev, an inspector of the Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, in his study, has revealed that certain militiamen appeared in the criminal case, who had allegedly been eyewitnesses of the incident and evidenced that it was the lawyer who had attacked the inspector.

An attempt at Deputy chief of Inner security department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Kabardino-Balkaria took place on September, 20, in Nalchik, capital of the Republic. The officer got wounded.