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On September 5 was the deadline for presenting to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan of subscription lists in support of registration of candidates for the top country's post. Out of 21 applicants initially approved by the CEC only 10 have submitted their subscription lists.

President of Turkey has invited his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sarkisyan to come to watch the football match of the two countries to be held in Turkey. Mr Sarkisyan has accepted the invitation.

Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights activist from Ingushetia and leader of the Autonomous Non-Commercial Organization "Mashr", does not believe that Magomed Evloev, owner of the "Ingushetia.Ru" oppositional website, was fatally wounded as a result of a random shot.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili signed a decree to reappoint by-elections to Parliament of Georgia and elections to Supreme Soviet of Adzharia, previously scheduled for October 4, to November 3.

On September 4, in the area, where a special operation against militants was held in the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, two powerful self-made explosives were found, which were blown up in situ, a source in law enforcement bodies has reported today.

The "Beslan Mothers" Association of Terror Act Victims has challenged inspector Solzhenitsyn, who heads the investigation of the case on the terror act in Beslan, and sent a petition to Mr Bastrykin, the head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russian Federation.

Today, a number of leading oppositional forces of Azerbaijan have made a joint statement about their non-recognition of the legitimacy of the presidential election due on October 15.

The leaders of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) have treated negatively the Georgia's actions in South Ossetia and have supported those of Russia, said Russian President Dmitri Medvedev in the press conference after the CSTO session held in Moscow.

Seven out of eight regional branches of political parties, which have announced about their intention to take part in the parliamentary elections to be held on October 12, have got registered by the Chechen Central Electoral Commission (CEC).

Late at night on September 4, in Moscow, near the summer cafe named "Artizan", located near the "Domodedovskaya" metro station, where natives from the Caucasus were holding their commemoration party, an explosion took place. As a result of it, one person was killed and about a dozen were wounded.

On September 4, Magomed Khazbiev, chairman of the organizing committee of the Ingush Nationwide Rally, declared in Moscow that Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru", was shot dead even before the departure from the territory of the airport, and there are grounds to think that it could be done by Musa Medov, head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan reports about arrest of 11 persons suspected in organizing explosions in Abu Bekr Mosque in Baku and the power substation located in the Khatainskiy District of the capital.

Today, mourning actions were held in Makhachkala and Buinaksk in memory of the victims of two terror acts - on September 4, 1998, in Parkhomenko Street in Makhachkala and in Buinaksk on September 4, 1999, where an apartment house was blown up in the military settlement.

The all-Russian public organization "Voice of Beslan" demands an international investigation into the terror act in Beslan. Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the organization, emphasizes that the decision to appeal to the international community was adopted because of Russia's failure to hold an objective investigation and inspectors' refusal to institute criminal prosecution against high-ranking officials.

The middle son of the first President of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne, detained on September 3 in Tbilisi Airport on charges of a coup d'etat in Georgia, refuses to plead guilty, reports Keti Bekauri, one of his advocates.