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The farewell ceremony to Ismail Bostanov, Deputy Head of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Karachai-Circassia and Stavropol Territory, who perished in an attempt on him committed on September 20, was held in his native village of Znamenskoe. Bostanov's murder was committed on the final day of the sacred Moslem month of Ramadan. The culprits could not be found hot on the trail.

The criminal case against journalist Besik Pipiya, head of the representative office of the RIA "Novosti" in Tbilisi, has been stopped because of absence of crime attributes. This was reported by Mr Pipiya himself and his advocate Levan Buadze.

Relatives of Nariman Mamedyarov, who disappeared on September 10 in Makhachkala, had planned to send him out of the republic. Fizuli Asaliev, Mamedyarov's stepbrother, said about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, in September they expected that Mamedyarov's recognizance not to leave would be lifted.

Russian frontier patrol ship "Novorossisk" has reached the coast of Abkhazia and immediately started its on duty mission of guarding the marine border of this breakaway republic.

Today, at about 2 a.m., near the city of Kizilyurt, some 60 kilometres off Makhachkala, eight freight-cars of a cargo train loaded with pipes and building materials went off the track because the railway was flooded. No victims are reported.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has reported solving the murder of Senior Justice Advisor Maksud Maksudov, Deputy Public Prosecutor of Makhachkala for supervising law enforcement in corrective-labour establishments.

Development of armed conflict in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan; outcomes of the next round of Geneva consultations on conflict settlement in Transcaucasia; resonant trials in the regions of Northern and Southern Caucasus; events in economy, culture and sports, – look up these and other events in the review of the week of September 14-20 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

At the Sochi Investment Forum, Russian regions have signed contracts to the total sum of about 481 billion roubles. As reported by the organizers of the Forum, almost two thirds of all the investments will go to the Krasnodar Territory.

This year, the Uraza-Bairam ('Id al-Fitr) holiday that marks the end of the Moslem sacred fasting month of Ramadan falls on Sunday, September 20. The authorities of the republics of Northern Caucasus have declared days-off for the time of the holiday.

Today, a number of Georgian media placed information that businessman Boris Berezovsky secretly visited Tbilisi in September. The authorities deny this fact.

The ceremony of signing the agreement with the Volkswagen Automobile Concern on general partnership with the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2014 took place at the Investment Forum in Sochi on September 18. The agreement was signed by Dmitri Chernyshenko, President of the Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014" and Dithmar Korcevka, Director General of the Company "Volkswagen Group Rus".

Three militants, one of the leaders of the armed underground among them, were killed in the course of an operative-combat action today in the morning in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan. This was reported by the Department of the FSB (DFSB) of Russia for Dagestan.

In the evening on September 18, Baku hosted the opening ceremony of the 11th International Film Festival named "East-West" with participation of prominent movie industry figures from many countries. The festival will last till September 23.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) - the organizer of "Eurovision" - considers a possibility to put a ban to compete for the countries, where the information about the voters is disclosed.