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Patimat Magomedova, director of the school in Shamkhal village in Dagestan, assassinated in the evening on September 23, had repeatedly received threats, her relatives report.

The sum of 5.1 million roubles was allotted from the reserve fund of the head of North Ossetia for rendering lump sum material aid to families of casualties and victims. The money has been already paid to 10 families of the casualties - 3 million roubles in total.

The law enforcement bodies have reported that they managed to identify the terrorist-suicide bomber, who shelled on September 24 the building of the local division of the Department of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) and then blew himself up at the building of the security service in the city of Nartkala in Kabardino-Balkaria: it was Oleg Mizov, who was earlier in search.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Eduard Gobozov, a Russian citizen and head of the division of army service and safety of the Armed Forces of the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia, to 10 years of imprisonment after he was found guilty of espionage in favour of Georgia.

On September 24, as a result of a self-explosion of a terrorist-suicide bomber in Makhachkala 26 persons were injured, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan report.

On September 24 at 10:00 a.m., Tamara Novikova, mother of the Sochi judge Dmitri Novikov, went out to hold her regular picket at the building of the Territorial Court at No. 3 Morskaya Street in Krasnodar; however, her action was stopped by power agents.

With a 123-4 vote, the parliament of Georgia has approved in the first reading the draft of the Constitutional Law "On Amending and Adding the Constitution of Georgia" at its extraordinary session.

Three servicemen of the Internal Troops of the MIA of the Russian Federation were lost in the mountains of Chechnya in the course of a special operation, as reported today by a source in law enforcement bodies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

The statement with criticism of the voyage of President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov to South Ossetia was not directed against Evkurov, but against those forces which draw in Ingushetia into the state of enmity, said Aslan Kodzoev, adviser of the head of the republic for interaction with public organizations. He has confirmed to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent his authorship of the sensational statement in the blog.

On Thursday, September 23, at about 9:25 p.m., unidentified persons used a grenade launcher and automatic firearms to attack the "Sharan" Hotel in Karabulak and then disappeared.

Patimat Magomedova, school director in Shamkhal village, who was assassinated on September 23, could fall victim to religious fanatics, since she had tried to forbid wearing hijabs by pupils of her educational institution, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Investigation of Vladikavkaz terror act has background of broad-scale public actions; Chechen Congress in Poland was accompanied by Ahmed Zakaev's detention; the Caucasus sums up first outcomes of Sochi investment forum, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 13-19, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Residents of Kabardino-Balkaria Alyona Shaova, Elena Gazzaeva and Angela Sunsheva have addressed their letter to President of the republic Arsen Kanokov, Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria Oleg Zharikov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and head of the Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov, asking to prevent convoying their husbands from the corrective establishment in Kamenka village outside Kabardino-Balkaria.

Today in the morning unidentified persons triggered a self-made bomb near the building of the Branch of the Krasnodar University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Nalchik. Under preliminary data, there are no victims.