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On September 14, Karina Kelasova, wife of Revaz Kelasov, 31, who was kidnapped on August 18 in Makhachkala, said that on September 12 she was summoned to the prosecutor's office of the city of Kaspiisk, where she was shown photos of a blown-up car with two scorched bodies inside. In one of them Karina recognized her husband.

On September, 14, European Court of Human Rights acknowledged the state of Turkey guilty of the murder of Hrant Dink, a journalist of Armenian origin, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Akos". In this way the claim submitted against the Turkish authorities was secured.

Relatives of the men murdered during a special operation on August, 28 in Shogentsukov street in Nalchik and on July 25 in the settlement of Dugulubgay, Balsan district of the republic, have appealed to Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center and the Ombudsman of Kabardino-Balkaria with a request to help them get their sons' corpses for burial.

On September, 14, a press-conference was held in Makhachkala on the initiative of human rights activists, layers and journalists of Dagestan. The initiators reported of a meeting planned for September, 21 where demands to force structures to stick to lawfulness and stop their practice of kidnapping would be moved forward.

Investigation states that most of those detained on suspicion of involvement in the act of terror committed on September, 9 in the Central market of Vladikavkaz have been released and have now the status of witnesses. Among them there is a seller of the car in which the suicide bomber exploded himself near the market and a girl who had sold the supposed terrorist a mobile.

Ramazan Abdurakhmanov, 27, a resident of Aksai village, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, has disappeared. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from his father Isa, who stated that nothing had been heard about Ramazan for two weeks.

On September 13, at the trial dealing with events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, which resumed its work after a three-week break, the court listened to evidences of three victims on two episodes: attack on Centre "T" and Department of the FSB for Kabardino-Balkaria. One of the women said that for the whole day she hid from bullets in a refrigerator.

In their comments on the fact that the Astrakhan Court has returned the criminal case on journalists' beating by the group headed by Rifkat Shabanov, Deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, back to the Prosecutor's Office, the victims said that the investigation had failed to clear out a number of particulars.

The Prosecutor's Office of Adygea is investigating the criminal cases initiated against the head of one of the divisions of the local department of the Russian Federal Corrective Service (known as "FSIN") and against his 32 subordinates suspected of embezzling one million roubles from the state budget.

Victor Tender was found guilty of attacking human rights activist Vadim Karastelyov, who presented the interests of ex-militia major Alexei Dymovskiy, and sentenced to one year of a high security colony.

Law enforcement organs of Ingushetia reported that Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of Nasir-Kort mosque, has been most probably attempted at for his speeches against representatives of armed underground.

Investigators began criminal proceedings against the personnel of Belorechenskaya juvenile colony in Krasnodar territory where mass disturbance with a participation of some tens of convicts had taken place, supposing that they had been provoked by the actions of the youth custody center personnel.

Republican law enforcement organs reported that a militiaman perished and another one got wounded during an attempt of detention of an group of gunmen near the settlement of Nohch-Keloy, Shatoy district of Chechnya.

A district militiaman of Kyzil-jurt was hospitalized after an explosion of an explosive device under the floor of his car in the settlement of Staroye Miatli.

At the trial by Ramzan Kadyrov, President of Chechen Republic's claim against Oleg Orlov, Head of "Memorial" Human Rights Center, on September, 13 judge Morozova declined the applications submitted by Henry Reznik, the defendant's attorney.