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On September, 30, the Parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria accepted a law on prohibition of retail selling strong alcohol drinks in the night-time in the first reading.

On September, 30, some unidentified people fired upon a militia flying squad in Baksan district of Kabardino-Balkaria, two officers got wounded, a source in law enforcement bodied reported.

Despite almost everyday special operations aimed at liquidating militants, the social basis of terror in Northern Caucasus has been steadily growing, primarily because the region lacks any political and religious power rejecting terror. This was stated by Maxim Shevchenko, a member of the Public Chamber and head of the working group for promoting public dialogue and civil society institutions in the Caucasus, in the course of a working meeting.

The independence of South Ossetia has been recognized by the Sahara Arab Democratic Republic. This was reported today by Konstantin Kochiev, adviser to the President of South Ossetia, after holding negotiations with the leaders of the ruling party of this African republic.

Chechen law enforcers have detained a young man who had called the "Beeline" security service and said that a passenger bus stuffed with bombs was on its route from Moscow to Novosibirsk. And the neighbouring North Ossetia found a malefactor who had reported that a school in Beslan was mined.

September 30 is the Victory and Independence Day in Abkhazia. On this day in 1993 the Abkhaz armed forces ousted the troops of the State Council of the Republic of Georgia away from its territory and hoisted the national banner over the state border along the Inguri River. In Abkhazia, the 1992-1993 Georgian-Abkhazian conflict is treated as the Patriotic War.

In total, the two explosive devices neutralized today in Stavropol contained about 90 kilograms of explosive substance.

The Moscow City Court has sentenced Turko Bataev, 23, a resident of Grozny, to ten years in a high security for preparing a terror act in Moscow in summer of 2009. This was reported today by the press service of the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office without specifying the date of sentencing.

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.