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The consideration of the criminal case initiated against the natives of Chechnya Apti and Aishat Magmadov, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs), has been postponed until September 5, because Egle Kusaite's evidences have not arrived to the Moscow Regional Court.

As reported today by Rashid Nurgaliev, Russian Interior Minister, at his meeting with the heads of his subdivisions in the North-Caucasian Federal District, the triple terror act committed in the Lenin District of Grozny killed 9 persons.

According to the latest data, eight people perished as a result of two explosions which happened on August, 30, in Grozny and no less that 16 persons got wounded.

In Grozny, at night on August 30 a supposed suicide bomber blew him up at a detention attempt. As a result, the blast killed four people and wounded other five, said a source from the republic's law enforcement bodies.

Abkhazia elects Alexander Ankvab to be its new president; however, the international community is not in a hurry to recognize the legality of the election; Azerbaijani court convicts six more oppositionist for taking part in April rally; dam failure in Grozny becomes a tragedy for 2500 citizens; in Krasnodar Territory another "raid" of ecological activists to "Tkachov's summer house" ends in arrests again, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 22-28, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Hasan Arsakhanov, native of Chechnya who was searched for by law enforcement bodies of North Osetia, was considered missing since August, 9, his relatives reported.

The flood which happened in Chechnya on August, 27, because of a strong rise of water level in the rivers caused by pelting rains inflicted serious damage upon the town of Grozny and the settlement of Shaami-Yurt, Achkhoi-Martan district, where 20 private housing estates were waterlogged.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has sanctioned the arrest of former militia officer Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a suspected (by the investigation) organizer of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta".

Chechnya suffers from deficit of educational institutions and lacks teachers. By the new school year the Republic's schools have more than 800 vacancies, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source from the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Chechnya.

On August, 23, the first makes of “Lada-Priora” cars were produced in Argun, the third biggest town of Chechnya, at the plant “Chechenavto”.

Khadish Ibaeva, the owner of the flat in Grozny, where a special operation was conducted on August 18, told rights defenders that power agents took away the documents on the flat, where she had been registered since 2004, and evicted her from the flat.

Lieutenant-Colonel Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was detained on suspicion of organizing the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, said Vladimir Markin, the official spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Chechen law enforcement bodies assert that the information that Albert Osupov, 26, a resident of the village of Elistanzhi, Vedeno District of Chechnya, who was killed at night on August 18 in Grozny together with three other alleged members of the armed underground, had been earlier kidnapped by unidentified persons has nothing to do with reality.

Leader of one of the human rights centers working in Chechnya declared that Albert Osupov killed on August, 18, in Lenin district of Grozny together with three other supposed participants of armed underground by members of the top brass had formerly been kidnapped by unidentified personnel of power ministries.