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The court has ruled to keep Magomed Patiev, a native of Ingushetia, accused of trying to hijack a Tu-154 aircraft at Domodedovo Airport in late July this year, said Tatiana Morozova, spokesperson of the Moscow Interregional Investigatory Department for Transports.

Moussa Nasukhov, a resident of Tyube village, Kumtorkal District of Dagestan, has reported that he cannot find the whereabouts of his brother Ibrahim Nasukhov, a resident of Vitsiyatli village, Tsuntin District, who was taken away on September 28 from his home by local militiamen and unidentified persons in camouflage.

At the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), where today consideration of the complaint lodged by journalist Fatullaev was postponed indefinitely, Rashid Gadzily, Director of the Media Rights Institute (MRI) said that there are no audio and video recordings of Fatullaev's trial.

Legal actions brought after searches in the houses of Jehovah's Witnesses in North Osetia in June, 2010, carried out for suspicion of keeping printed matter acknowledged by the court as extremist have been stopped.

Eleven employees of the Astrakhan customs, four people from the broker's company "Rostech-Astrakhan" and two entrepreneurs will be brought before the court for accusation of contraband as members of an organized group.

A lady investigator who got wounded during fire at a car with officers of the Criminal Investigation Department, Department of Interior affairs of Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria, died, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria reported that one of the three militiaman inside a car and the driver of another car passing by were injured as a result of an explosion in Nalchik last night.

The state of two militiamen wounded in Dagestan as a result of an explosion on September, 29, is estimated as a grave one, our source in the investigation bodies reported. After the explosion 17 militia officers asked for medical aid in the hospitals of Kaspiisk and Makhachkala. According to another source, 16 people were injured.

In Krasnodar, at the trial of entrepreneurs Sergey Kolesnikov and Evgeniy Konovalov, accused of misappropriation and embezzlement of a large sum of money belonging to the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Promavtomatika Invest", Judge Roman Shakitsko from the Lenin District Court of Krasnodar removed rights defender Tatiana Rudakova away from the session, because she had explained the rights of defendants' advocates.

The information about formation of a special unit of interior troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Dagestan was differently taken by the local people. Denga Khalidov, head of the Centre of Strategic and Ethno-Political Studies of Russia, believes that Dagestan has pretty plenty of other power structures. On the other hand, the authorities of the republic hope that local residents will be better protected from those who want to destabilize the situation.

Georgeos Makropoulos, Vice-President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), has stated, in response to accusations put forward by Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov that the today's election of FIDE President were unfair, that it was an attempt to blacken the name of the President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.

On September 28, fourteen leaders of various oppositional forces of Georgia sent a joint statement to the President of the Council of Europe, Chairman of the Venice Commission and to David Bakradze, Chairman of the Georgian Parliament, demanding to take action against adoption by the parliament of the new Constitution.

On September 28, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said, speaking at the inauguration ceremony of President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, that the Caucasus is no longer the area of inter-confessional and interethnic conflicts, but is becoming a united and economically prosperous region.

Suicide bombers blow themselves up in Northern Caucasus at the background of deepened split in "Imarat Kavkaz"; Vice-President of Abkhazia survives after another attempt; and the head of Ingushetia loses his advisor, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 20-26, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".