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Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, has accused President Ilham Aliev of appropriation of "oil" money and setting up the military-police regime in the country.

Satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov, an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is now in custody, has started a hunger strike.

The situation in the Ingush city of Nazran, where on September 19 clashes burst out between the residents of Ingushetia who rallied to a spontaneous protest meeting and the militia, is now more stable.

The exact whereabouts and fate of Vagap Tutakov, a former deputy of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (ChRI), who was kidnapped by unknown persons on September 10, are still not established.

The St-Petersburg anarchists Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk gave recognizance not to leave; and their criminal prosecution in relation to blowing up the "Neva-Express" train has been stopped.

The number of the participants of the spontaneous meeting, held today in Ingushetia with a demand to release the two local residents kidnapped yesterday, is permanently increasing, and by 2 p.m. it has reached some 700-800 persons.

Today, Igor Tkachov, Public Prosecutor of Dagestan, has stated that the burial of Rappani Khalilov and Nabi Nabiev, murdered in the course of a special operation, will take place without giving out the bodies to relatives.

Andrei Keilin, accused of murdering two students on June 3 in Stavropol and released from custody on September 16, was put under moral pressure.

At the process on the criminal case about the fight in the city of Kondopoga that had provoked mass disorders, the advocates of Chechen defendants have again demanded to return the case back to the prosecutor's office.

The prosecutor's office has re-arrested Khasan Didigov, a suspect of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train who was released today, as his advocate Murad Yunusov has reported.

According to the statement of Vyacheslav Shanshin, head of the FSB Department for Dagestan, "liquidation of Rappani Khalilov was a logic end of a complex of operative actions accomplished under direction of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB) of Russia."

Today at about 6:40 p.m., a special operation was undertaken in Khasavyurt (Dagestan) with the aim to detain and liquidate members of Askhab Bidaev's armed formation. One militiaman and a civilian woman were killed in the skirmish.

In the course of an operation conducted in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Rustam Vichigov, an associate of Doku Umarov, one of the leaders of Chechen militants, was killed.

On September 16, Andrei Keilin, who was in custody on suspicion of murdering students Dmitri Blakhin and Pavel Chadin on June 3 in Stavropol, has been released.

Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, has stated that as a result of operative-investigatory actions conducted under the murder case of Albert Kazaryan, Public Prosecutor of the Lori District, other crimes can be opened, namely, application of violence towards the witnesses figuring in the case.