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Acquaintance visit to the Caucasus of Philippe Lefort, the newly appointed EU Special Representative for Southern Caucasus and Crisis in Georgia; youth educational forums in the Rostov and Astrakhan Regions; mass brawls - prevented and not - in the Stavropol Territory; setting up of former militants' adaptation commission in Ingushetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 5-11, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office is investigating the attempt to blow up the car of the religious figure undertaken in the city of Argun. Law enforcement bodies are searching the persons involved in preparing the crime.

The network of the civil society "Refugees and International Law" has issued an open letter addressed to the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan on suspicion of embezzlement by responsible officials of the funds allocated to build houses for refugees.

In the course of a sanitary-epidemiological investigation held at the Veshenskaya secondary school of the Rostov Region, the regional "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) division has established that the school had broken the sanitary and anti-epidemic regime and rules of children's nutrition.

As believed by the participants of the conference "Situation in the Armenian Army", the establishment of the institute of Military Ombudsperson can improve the situation in the Armed Forces of Armenia.

The absence in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of civil activism and violations of human rights have been stated by rights defenders and journalists from Baku, who visited the NAR on September 12. They spoke about it on September 13 at the press conference held in the Azerbaijani capital at the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS).

At night of September, 11, local policeman Evgeny Tereshenko committed suicide in the stanitsa of Leningradskaya, Krasnodar region, by shooting in his head from a Government-issue Makarov.

Residents of Khabez district of the Republic of Karachay-Cherkessia state that policemen regularly come to their houses, carry out searches without explanation of the reason and take them to police department where they are interrogated, their fingerprints are taken and the policemen take written statements from those interrogated that they are not Wahhabis.

On September, 2, armed and masked people wearing camouflage uniforms in the capital of Chechnya kidnapped a resident of Gudermes district of the republic and carried him away in an unknown direction, "Memorial" Human Rights Center reports.

The authorities of the Matveev-Kurgan District of the Rostov Region has rejected the initiative of the Search Association "Mius-Front" to rebury the remains of more than ten soldiers who perished in the battles for liberation of the Rostov Region.

A resident of the Gudermes District of Chechnya and a woman from Ingushetia have been convicted in Chechnya for illegal receipt of compensation benefits, due for the housing and property lost during the warfare.

In the city of Izberbash, power agents have detained a person suspected of assaulting policemen, of whom two died. This was announced today by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.