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On September 26, in the foothill Shali District of Chechnya, two local residents were detained; according to law enforcement officers, they had kidnapped and forcibly kept a local resident.

In the South-West of Chechnya Said-Arbi Tsurayev, a local resident, a famous singer's brother, was detained for suspicion of involvement in armed underground's activities, according to the information from his relations who are sure of his innocence. Law enforcement bodies of the republic have produced no comment on this message, however they reported detention of two supposed gunmen who had attempted to commit an act of terror.

Three servicemen of the Internal Troops of the MIA of the Russian Federation were lost in the mountains of Chechnya in the course of a special operation, as reported today by a source in law enforcement bodies of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Investigation of Vladikavkaz terror act has background of broad-scale public actions; Chechen Congress in Poland was accompanied by Ahmed Zakaev's detention; the Caucasus sums up first outcomes of Sochi investment forum, - look these and other events in the review of the week of September 13-19, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Russian Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin has addressed his letter to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) asking to investigate the facts of attacks on women, who appear in the streets without headscarves. The GPO says that they have not received Mr Lukin's letter yet, while Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, rejects any attacks on women in his republic whatsoever.

The Warsaw district Public prosecutor's office has appealed against the verdict of the court which had refused temporary arrest of Ahmed Zakaev, emissary of Chechen separatists, Monica Levandovskaya, press secretary of the office, reported on September, 23.

On September, 23, Khawaji Yusupov, native of Chechnya, sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment for his attempt at Isa Yamadaev, brother of Ruslan Yamadaev, ex-deputy of State Duma, and Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of "Vostok" battalion, declared his innocence in court.

The prosecutor's office of Chechnya has initiated a criminal case against the head of one of the divisions of the Department of the Federal Correction Service (known as UFSIN), detained for extorting bribes from conditional convicts.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to Khavazhi Yusupov, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for the attempt in May 2009 on Isa Yamadaev, a brother of assassinated ex-deputy of the State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev.

On September, 21, Doku Umarov, head of Chechen gunmen, deprived Aslanbek Vadalov, Khusein Gakaev and Tarkhan Gaziev, leaders of Chechen sector of "Caucasus" Imarat, of their ranks and titles for having disobeyed him. On Umarov's decision the degraded commanders had to be brought before shariat court.

The wide-scale subbotnik aimed to clean the streets of the capital of Chechnya from garbage and improve their appearance, which was suspended because of the month of Ramadan, will restart within the next few days.

A number of subdivisions of the organization "Spetsstroy" in Chechnya have partially suspended their work for lack of POLs (petroleum, oil and lubricants). The workers are forced to apply for indefinite-term non-paid vacations. This is reported by the workers, while their bosses prefer to refrain from comments.

So far, the search of the persons who had prepared a terror act on September 19 in a shopping centre in Grozny, which was prevented, is fruitless. Power agents do not exclude that the act was aimed to disrupt the celebrations on the local Women's Day.