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On September 30, in the course of the meeting with the bosses of local power agencies in Grozny, Ruslan Alkhanov, the MIA head, said that from the start of the year 84 militants were killed in the territory of the republic. He also noted that for the same period, according to power agents, 43 young men joined the armed underground, and 11 of them left for the forest and mountains in September.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya report that they have established the person of the terrorist-suicide bomber who tried today in the morning to blow up the building of the police station in Starye Atagi village in the Grozny District of the republic.

Today at the trial on the case about the events in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, held by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, defendant Mironov moved a petition to summon again the coded witnesses with pseudonyms "Pushkin", "Tchaikovsky", "Seliverstov" and others, who already evidenced to the court.

On September 16, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, unidentified persons kidnapped Dzhigirkhan Dzhigirkhanov, 27, right from his house. In the opinion of his relatives, employees of power agencies have to do with the incident.

The ICPO of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the unidentified persons, who placed on June 26 in the main page of the website "Chechnya Today" threats of murder addressed to the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

On September 29, in Baku, a preparatory session was held on the suit lodged by the widow of the perished head of the Talush Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) Novruzali Mamedov against the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice, the Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15. In its turn, the Nizami District Prosecutor's Office has found no grounds for opening a criminal case in relation to N. Mamedov's death in the colony.

On September 29, all the defendants in the "Black Hawks" case - the Caucasians, accused of committing hooligan actions and causing grave harm to human health, - enjoyed their last plea right. Judge of the Dorogomilovo Court of Moscow retired to pass the verdict to be announced on October 8.

On 25 September, the president of the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) Souyer Belassen attended the Moscow court sitting that was considering a suit of the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov. After the sitting, the human rights activist gave her vision of this legal process and the overall situation with human rights in the Russian Federation.

On October 11, Astrakhan will elect city Mayor. The incumbent Mayor Sergey Bozhenov has also nominated himself to the post. In the opinion of oppositional candidates, Bozhenov's supporters are pressing on them by involving criminals and corrupted militiamen. The Mayor's electoral office rejects the accusations, but the militia has initiated a check.

Within the murder case of the Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev, the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) has interrogated Suleiman Geremeev, a cousin of Adam Delimkhanov, Deputy of the State Duma from Chechnya. As reported by an ICPO source, Geremeev was interrogated in Moscow as a witness.

Instigators of mass fight in the Altai Motorized Rifle Division, where recruits from Dagestan suffered, have received their prison terms.