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Today, the Armenian opposition has declared its intention to hold a mass nationwide rally. In the opinion of Levon Zarubyan, spokesman of the oppositional Armenian National Congress, the rally should become the "decisive event."

Today at a joint press conference in Tbilisi, spokesmen of the Ministries of Defence, Internal Affairs and Public Health gave new figures of Georgian casualties in the conflict with Russia. Under the aggregated data, 168 militaries were lost. Meanwhile, the Russian military reconnaissance asserts that Georgia had lost about three thousand power agents.

Today, the EU Council has made an official decision to send a mission of 200 European observers to Georgia. It is planned to place them in the buffer zone adjacent from the Georgian side to the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Today, Ingushetia's law enforcers have conducted searches in houses of Maksharip Aushev and Magomed Khazbiev, Ingush oppositionists. However, according to Mr Khazbiev, nothing was confiscated in the course of these searches.

Former Minister of Defence of Georgia Irakliy Okruashvili stated on September 14 that President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili had been planning for a long time a military operation with the aim to regain control over South Ossetia. According to his version, back in 2005 Georgia was developing plans of capturing Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Volgodonsk (Rostov Region) has studied and recognized lawful the initiation of Criminal Case No. 2008717504 of September 5, 2008, on the fact of trafficking in people committed in relation to two and more persons with confiscation of IDs of the victims.

Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, has called the temporary parliamentary commission in charge of investigating the events of March 1 to scrutinize the facts presented in the film prepared by the public commission for studying the events on March 1, and if necessary, to take measures to examine the film for defining its authenticity.

In the evening on September 12, in the centre of Yerevan, capital of Armenia, near the building of the Yerevan State Conservatory, a fight burst out between members of oppositional youth public organizations and the police.

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (MNRE) of the Russian Federation tries to urge the government of the Republic of Adygea (RA) to take measures for supporting safety of the object of the World Natural Heritage named "Western Caucasus" situated in the territory of this republic.

The Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus has revealed new violations of the nature-protecting legislation in the territory of the Sochi National Park at preparation to 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

Prior to events in South Ossetia in August, Ukraine was the leading supplier of weapons to Georgia; it was stated by Anatoly Nogovitsyn, Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia.

The famous Russian writer Fazil Iskander is confident that there will be no new war in Abkhazia. He told about it in his TV appeal to his compatriots broadcast today by the Abkhazian television.

Vano Merabishvili, Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, has declared at a press conference that ordinary policemen, now working in the territories, adjacent to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, will be replaced by special troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

All over again, already for the fourth time, on September 12, local residents defended the Imereti Valley from another attempt of the FSUE (Federal State Unitary Enterprise) "Rosmorport" to start construction in this area of the "Second Sochi Cargo Port".

Russian militaries have been withdrawn from the city of Poti, Georgia, in fulfilment of the Russia-France agreement.