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Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the sentence passed earlier to Yuri Samodurov, ex-director of the Sakharov museum and social centre, and Andrei Erofeyev, former head of the division of newest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery, organizers of the exhibition "Forbidden Art-2006", fined for inciting religious hatred and enmity.

The Khosta District Court of Sochi has ruled not to change the freedom restriction measure applied to the former judge Dmitri Novikov, accused of organizing in 2005 a theft by swindle of 17 land plots, said the court spokesman. The trial will be continued on October 11.

On September 26, in Khetokh village, Tsuntin District, a local resident Aliev, Ali Magomedovich, born in 1991, was kidnapped from his home, presumably by power agents, and taken away to some unknown place. His relatives appealed to human rights defenders.

Mankuli Lamazov, a resident of Kurukal village and a confidant of Sharafidin Mukhurov, a candidate for a deputy of the district assembly from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), believes that he could be attacked and beaten by supporters of Safidin Mursalov, incumbent head of the Akhtyn District.

Low-income residents of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar region, will receive food ration tickets on bread and milk. This decision has been taken by Vladimir Sinyagovsky, mayor of the city, after the growth of prices on socially-significant products, Press service of Novorossiysk administration reports.

In the suburbs of the town of Derbent, Dagestan, unknown men opened fire at a militia post last night, the republican law enforcement bodies reported. No one was injured as a result of the attack.

Last night in Dagestan there was an attack at a bus with fans of "Spartak" football team which on October, 3, had a game with local "Anzhi" football club and won with a score 1:0.

The participants of the protest action held on October, 3, in Tuapse which numbered from five hundred to one thousand people data dependence established a Committee in protection of Tuapse. The action lasted about two hours and passed off peacefully. The personnel of law enforcement bodies behaved correctly. No one was detained.

The republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reports that this morning Khabib Jabrailov, Head of the village of Chirijurt, Kiziljurt district of Dagestan, and Murad Kochkharov, Chairman of the local collective farm, were killed.

The non-sanctioned anti-terrorism rally expected today in the capital of North Ossetia was disrupted by interference of local law enforcers, said one of women-organizers, who preferred to remain anonymous.

The situation in Dagestan is more and more strained with the approaching October 10 elections, experts say. But the elections are just a catalyst, but the situation in the country is heavy without them, they emphasize.

It was stated, at the meeting of the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the leadership of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), headed by Alexander Bastrykin, that under Natalia Estemirova's murder case the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was interrogated. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Kati Marton, a board member of the CPJ.

More than 3000 persons went today to protest rallies against terrorism in four dwelling settlements in Ingushetia.