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Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the committee "Civil Assistance", has voiced a number of offers, when speaking at a meeting of women-peacemakers of Russia and Georgia, concerning joint projects and cooperation of the public of the two countries. In particular, she finds it reasonable to hold post-conflict children's camps in the region.

Two persons were lost in a skirmish that burst out in a hotel in Makhachkala last night. The incident has happened after an explosion that was triggered in one of the hotel rooms.

Today, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has upheld the verdict to the leaders of a nationalist group Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy, sentenced to 10 years in prison for a series of murders.

Nobody has officially contacted yet the families of the Georgian seamen captured by pirates in the Gulf of Aden: neither Georgian authorities and nor the company-employer, say the relatives. In its turn, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has stated that the "actively work" with the fact of kidnapping.

Today, the Baku-based Business Centre "Landmark" has hosted a conference held within the forum of public support of the freedom of speech and expression in Azerbaijan. Its participants have called to release journalist Fatullaev and bloggers Milli and Gadjizade.

Residents of Chechnya report that relatives of the young men, who went to the forest to join militants, are persecuted by local power agents. Human rights activist note that it happens under the initiative of Chechen leadership, since President Ramzan Kadyrov has openly stated that militants' relatives shall respond for their actions.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Republic of Dagestan (RD) has completed considering the civil case opened under the claim lodged by the territorial department of the "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Mass Communications) and RD's Prosecutor's Office against the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "Freedom of Speech" with a demand to close the local weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint).

At night on September 8, in Baksanyonok village, Baksan District, unidentified persons shot dead Federal Judge Dzhulber Bykov.

As reported by Elza Dzhioeva, head of the department for additional education of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO), children and teenagers are forbidden to stay at night in public places without their parents.

Natural fires in the Volgograd Region capture dwelling settlements, taking eight human lives and leaving about a thousand persons without roof over their head; Russia and other countries hold mourning actions on the sixth anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; suicide bomber commits a terror act in Buinaksk killing five and wounding thirty persons, - look these and other events in the review of the week of August 30-September 5, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 7, the Administrative Court of Armenia has rejected the claim lodged by the Armenian All-National Movement (AANM) - a unit of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) - with a demand to nullify the decision of the plenipotentiary of the mayoralty of Yerevan of September 1 to ban the rally of the opposition, which was to be held on September 17 in Freedom Square.

The defence of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia, who was sentenced to 9.5 years of imprisonment for a murder attempt, brings a claim against the patrol police challenging the legality of the detention procedure.

According to Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, speaker of Chechen parliament, the post of the president of Chechnya will be officially renamed only next April, after expiry of Ramzan Kadyrov's term.

On September 7, the Leninskiy District Court of Rostov-on-Don held its first session on the case contesting the legitimacy of the decision of the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region, which had announced a warning to Konstantin Baranov, head of the regional branch of the public organization "Young Europe", about inadmissibility of extremist activity.