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Today in the morning, the head of the village administration of Kakamakhi was killed. As reported by the spokesman of the local MIA, militiamen managed to detain the suspect - a casualty's relative.

The killer of the human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is known; he is in the territory of Russia; and steps are taken to arrest him, Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office), said today at the meeting with a delegation from the International Committee to Protect Journalists.

Employees of the UVD (Interior Division) for the city of Nalchik have prevented a terror act, the Kabardino-Balkarian MIA has reported today. Simultaneously, two self-made explosive devices with a total capacity of up to one TNT (trotyl) kilogram were found in the heart of a residential district of the capital of the republic.

The court in Sochi has sentenced the head of a rural district to 12 years in prison for stealing more than 300 land plots worth over 1 billion roubles.

The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) has not confirmed the diagnosis of "Siberian plague" in two hospitalized farm workers from the Beloglinskiy District, the head of the territorial agency's department has reported today.

The collegium of the Ministry of Justice has amended the "Rules of Internal Discipline in Correction Establishments" aimed to ensure prisoners' rights.

Residents of the city of Baksan, Kabardino-Balkaria, have addressed their letter to President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov, Ombudsman Boris Zumakulov and Head of Public Human Rights Centre Valery Khatazhukov. They ask for help that their sons, who are wanted, were not killed, but arrested alive and tried according to Russian laws depending on the degree of their guilt.

One law enforcement officer perished and ten of his colleagues were wounded during a special operation aimed to search a militant conducted in Chechnya since September 24. This was reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Chechnya of the Russian ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office). Local experts believe that the large-scale operation was a sort of Kadyrov's response to the militants' attack on Tsentoroi village, Kurchaloi District, in late August.

In Northern Caucasus, on September 25, FSB officers detained one of the leaders of the Ingush branch of "Imarat Kavkaz" acting in Ingushetia, the PR centre of the FSB said today. According to the centre, the name of the detainee is Khashagulgov, Issa Lokhanovich.

On September 7, in Ekazhevo village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, agents of some unidentified power agency kidnapped Rustam Maksharipovich Dzeitov, born in 1982. This was stated by his brother Ruslan Dzeitov, who has addressed today his written application to the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Nazran.

On September 15, 2010, in Semender settlement in Makhachkala, Ramazan Sakhratulaevich Gamzatov was kidnapped, allegedly, by some power agents. His relatives addressed for help to human rights defenders.

According to a local representative of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (STSI), four people perished and five were injured, a nine months old baby and a child of four among them, as a result of a road traffic accident in Kochiubey district of Stavropol region.

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.

The stuff of Plenipotentiary under the President in North-Caucasian Federal district are creating a TV channel devoted to Northern Caucasus in cooperation with the All-Russian TV and radio broadcasting company (ARTRC), Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary in the district under the President reported at the meeting with representatives of the leading mass media in Northern Caucasus on September, 24.