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The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to Khavazhi Yusupov, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for the attempt in May 2009 on Isa Yamadaev, a brother of assassinated ex-deputy of the State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev.

In September the non-governmental organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" held a series of solitary piquets near the command headquarters of interior forces in Petersburg as a sign of their protest against mass dispatch of conscripts to Dagestan.

Alexander Ankvab, Vice-president of Abkhazia, got wounded as a result of an attempt at him tonight.

European Committee against tortures and inhuman or humiliating treatment (ECAT) welcomes the drastic steps taken by Georgian authorities for avoidance of cruel treatment, as it is emphasized in the report of ECAT.

As reported by Svetlana Danelyan, leader of the initiative group of Vardane villagers, the participants of the protest action, which was dispersed by OMON (special militia) fighters on September 3, are still persecuted by militia and judicial instances.

Three persons perished and ten were taken to hospital in Kalmykia as a result of a head-on collision of a bus with a "VAZ-2114" car. The bus was following from Makhachkala to Moscow.

Personnel of State Communications Inspection of Abkhazia have removed the transmitters broadcasting the programs of Georgian TV from the territory of Inguri hydro power, Gali district of the republic.

Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported an explosion on the way of a militia car in Kizyl-Yurt.

On September, 21, Doku Umarov, head of Chechen gunmen, deprived Aslanbek Vadalov, Khusein Gakaev and Tarkhan Gaziev, leaders of Chechen sector of "Caucasus" Imarat, of their ranks and titles for having disobeyed him. On Umarov's decision the degraded commanders had to be brought before shariat court.

Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia has published the names of the officer and two soldiers - heroes of the video "True Face of Our Army" placed on the Internet. According to the statement of the Ministry, Major Sasun Galstyan was arrested and is accused of abusing his official duties. The regular service sergeant and a private have been recognized as victims.

On September, 21, the Appellate Court of Tbilisi delivered a standing judgment on the verdict of the court of first instance concerning Gamsakhurdia, the first Georgian President's son according to which the convict had to stay in prison nine years and six months.

On September 21, a court session took place in Rostov-on-Don on case dealing with the challenge of the decision of the prosecutor's office of the Rostov Region, which made a warning about inadmissibility of extremist earlier this February to Konstantin Baranov, head of the Rostov branch of the public organization "Young Europe".

Rescuers have stopped searching the tourist from Germany, who disappeared two weeks ago in the vicinity of the settlement of Dombai in Karachai-Circassia, Andrei Mozgov, deputy head of the search-and-rescue detachment of the local Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), has reported.