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Within the murder case of the Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev, the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) has interrogated Suleiman Geremeev, a cousin of Adam Delimkhanov, Deputy of the State Duma from Chechnya. As reported by an ICPO source, Geremeev was interrogated in Moscow as a witness.

Instigators of mass fight in the Altai Motorized Rifle Division, where recruits from Dagestan suffered, have received their prison terms.

A number of leading opposition parties of Georgia hold consultations aimed to coordinate future plans. In particular, they still demand resignation of President Mikhail Saakashvili and early presidential election, as Kakha Kukava, one of the leaders of the Conservative Party, said in the press conference.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Araz Guseinov, continued its hearings on the case of young bloggers - Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, accused in hooliganism and inflicting bodily injuries. Witnesses went on evidencing.

Yesterday, on September 28, at the Dorogomilovo Court of Moscow, where the case of the "Black Hawks" is considered, the representative of the Prosecutor's Office asked the court to sentence the six defendants-natives of the Caucasus, accused of hooliganism and causing grave harm to human health, to prison terms from 4 to 7 years. This was reported by victims' advocate Sergey Stashevskiy.

The widow and son of Novruzali Mamedov, former head of the Talush Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado" (Voice of Talysh), who died on August 17 in imprisonment, in the evening on September 26 received traumas after their car ran foul of a truck, which then disappeared from the venue. Earlier, relatives of the political prisoner had accused the authorities that Novruzali was killed in prison.

In the evening on July 28, unidentified persons opened fire from the direction of Ekazhevo village on the militia check post located in the village of Surkhakhi. There were no victims, but the building of the post was slightly damaged.

Later this week, on September 30, the Supreme Court of Dagestan plans to pass its verdict on the case of Mukhtar Agaev, officer of the Dagestan Department of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation on Drug Circulation, accused of forming an IAF and an attempt on Shamil Isaev, a deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan. The defendant will be given his last plea on September 29.

With advent of Ramzan Kadyrov to power in Chechnya, words of human rights activists, even void of criticism, are rejected. This was stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Committee for Civil Assistance, speaking as witness on September 25 at the Tver Court of Moscow at the court session on Ramzan Kadyrov's claim against head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov.

Progress in investigating the murder of ex-Deputy of Russian State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev; news events in litigation of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov; information leak from the Commission of the EU for investigating the circumstances of the August 2008 military conflict in the Caucasus and results of Georgia's negotiations with Abkhazian and South-Ossetian parties, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of September 21-27 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Russian authorities have failed to enforce the decisions of the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on more than 30 cases of Chechnya residents, runs the report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on September 27.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya have reported that the two young men, suspected of participating in the armed underground, who were killed yesterday, on September 27, in the Shatoy District, were second-year students at two leading higher schools of the republic.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov offered employees of the HRC "Memorial" not to cover violations of human rights in media, but notify the head of Chechnya in private order. This was stated by Soer Belassen, President of the International Federation on Human Rights (FIDH), in her exclusive interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent; she was present on September 25 at the trial on Kadyrov's claim against head of the HRC Oleg Orlov.