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Recent events in Dagestan show that the situation in the republic is getting out of control, runs the official statement of the working group of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation for development of public dialogue and institutes of civil society in the Caucasus, passed on September 6.

The law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia have prevented a large terror act planned by militants with use of a terrorist-suicide bomber. This was stated today by Ingush President Yunus-Bek Evkurov in his speech addressed to parliamentarians and the government.

The special commission for reconciliation of families in the state of blood feud, which was set up in Chechnya in August, has reconciled 18 blood feudists. According to the republic's Muftiyat, the commission still has 40 more cases pending consideration.

As stated today by the spokesman of the Chief Department for Dagestan of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) the traffic in the railway section, which was interrupted today by an explosion in front of a cargo train, has been completely restored.

On September 5, militiamen and soldiers engaged in operative-search actions were shelled in the high-mountainous Shatoy District of Chechnya. Nobody of them suffered; later, they found two knapsacks with foodstuffs in the place of the incident and then detained a suspected militants' helper.

Irina Rezanova, a resident of Penza and mother of Andrei Rezanov, arrested soldier of the Botlikh Mountain-Rifle Brigade, suspected of involvement in murdering Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan on June 5, 2009, has addressed her letter to the Dagestan regional public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" and asked for help.

On September 5, in the city of Tyrnyauz in Kabardino-Balkaria, unidentified persons shelled a car with militiamen inside; nobody suffered, a source in law enforcement bodies of the region has reported today.

An unknown person threw a grenade into the yard of the house of the principal of High School No. 3 of the city of Karabulak in Ingushetia, as reported by a source in local law enforcement bodies of the republic.

Today, at about 5:45 p.m., a powerful explosion happened in central Makhachkala near the "Dynamo" Stadium. One person is wounded, the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

The number of casualties of the terror act committed on September 5 near Buinaksk has increased up to four persons; the number of those wounded makes 35 persons, as reported by lieutenant colonel of justice Albert Kokoev, head of the military investigatory division of the military unit.

In Makhachkala, a car was blown up, and one person was lost, while two others, including Bekmurza Bekmurzaev, local minister for national policy, foreign relations and information, were wounded.

Rita Kanametova, a resident of the city of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria has addressed her complaint to the prosecutor's office of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and human rights organizations saying that a person, who presented himself as an employee of the FSB Department for Kabardino-Balkaria, confiscated her car BMW-520. Later it appeared that there is no such employee in the Department.

A man of 24 died in one of the cells of the investigatory isolation facility (known as "SIZO") No. 1 of the city of Krasnodar. The ICPO for the Krasnodar Territory is conducting a pre-inquiry check of the circumstances of the detainee's death.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on changing the freedom restriction regime for Kazbek Budtuev, a defendant in the case dealing with the attack on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005. After five years in SIZO (pre-trial prison) he was transferred into house arrest. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by advocate Liza Shak.