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Today, the Sabail District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Araz Guseinov, continued considering the case of young bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused of hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Witnesses went on presenting their evidences.

Russia welcomes the conclusion of the international commission for investigating the conflict in Georgia that Tbilisi unleashed the war last August in South Ossetia, Natalia Timakova, press secretary of Russian President, said today. Georgia is happy that the report states that the war in South Ossetia began not on August 7, but earlier, said Timur Yakobashvili, State Minister of Georgia on Reintegration.

Today, at about 4 p.m., Gamzat Musaev, senior inspector of the Khasavyurt Prosecutor's Office, was assassinated. Eyewitnesses of the tragedy assert that he was shot dead by the employees of the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate), who were on duty at the entrance post to Makhachkala.

The ICPO of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the unidentified persons, who placed on June 26 in the main page of the website "Chechnya Today" threats of murder addressed to the republic's leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

On September 29, in Baku, a preparatory session was held on the suit lodged by the widow of the perished head of the Talush Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh) Novruzali Mamedov against the Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice, the Penitentiary Service and its medical establishment, and also against Colony No. 15. In its turn, the Nizami District Prosecutor's Office has found no grounds for opening a criminal case in relation to N. Mamedov's death in the colony.

Vardui Elbakyan, advocate of oppositional activist Tigran Arakelyan, 18, who is in custody, told journalists about extremely grave health condition of her client. According to her story, after examination by ophthalmologist a serious injury of his eye was revealed. The defender is sure that it was a result of the blow inflicted by a policeman on the young man with the pistol handle.

On September 29, all the defendants in the "Black Hawks" case - the Caucasians, accused of committing hooligan actions and causing grave harm to human health, - enjoyed their last plea right. Judge of the Dorogomilovo Court of Moscow retired to pass the verdict to be announced on October 8.

Forty best students of the Chechen State University (ChSU) and Grozny State Oil Institute (GSOI) have left for studying at higher schools of Germany. This is already the second group of the Chechen students, who will be trained abroad. Earlier, about a hundred of them went to Germany and Great Britain.

According to the Russian Ministry of Regional Development (know as "Minregion") for the four preparatory years to the Olympiad in Sochi, including this year, 1,054 trillion roubles will be needed. In the opinion of experts, this sum is strongly overestimated.

On 25 September, the president of the International Federation for Human Rights (IFHR) Souyer Belassen attended the Moscow court sitting that was considering a suit of the Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against the chairman of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov. After the sitting, the human rights activist gave her vision of this legal process and the overall situation with human rights in the Russian Federation.

On October 11, Astrakhan will elect city Mayor. The incumbent Mayor Sergey Bozhenov has also nominated himself to the post. In the opinion of oppositional candidates, Bozhenov's supporters are pressing on them by involving criminals and corrupted militiamen. The Mayor's electoral office rejects the accusations, but the militia has initiated a check.