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Today, the Maikop District of Adygea hosts the traditional Dakhov commemoration of the Cossacks who perished in the years of civil war.

Next week, the parliament of Georgia will consider the issue of boycott of the Sochi Olympiad. Georgian Olympians will be also invited to the session.

Georgia will simplify the procedure for obtaining dual citizenship for its compatriots from abroad, President Mikhail Saakashvili promised in New York on September 23 while present at a charitable concert, organized to raise money for buying a building for the St Nino Georgian Church.

Merab Chigoev, deputy plenipotentiary representative of President of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement, finds the last meeting on incident-prevention, held on September 24 in Ergneti village, Gori District, in the Georgian-South-Ossetian border, fruitless.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has arrested Albert Saaev, a native of Dagestan, suspected of hacker attacks on the websites of power bodies of some republics of Northern Caucasus.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has announced decoration of a group of journalists from several countries of the world with the award "Freedom of Press" for 2009. Among the recipients are journalists from Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia and Einullah Fatullaev, a convicted Azerbaijani journalist.

The judicial hearings on the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to the head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov were postponed till October 6, as the judge and the claimant should watch the video record, presented by Orlov. According to his story, the CD has records of the programmes of Grozny TV, where Kadyrov calls to illegitimate actions.

The opposition of Georgia is not going to give up and will continue its protest actions against the policy of President Mikhail Saakashvili. This was stated by Levan Gachechiladze, leader of the public movement "Defend Georgia" and one of the organizers of protest actions, held this spring.

On Thursday, September 24, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili spoke at the sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, drew parallel between the Berlin wall and loss of territorial integrity of Georgia, and promised to bring Abkhazia back into Georgia.

Today, in the course of the court session, where the claim of President of Chechnya against the head of the HRC "Memorial" was considered, the respondent - Oleg Orlov - presented his explanations on the case. The claim was caused by Mr Orlov's statements about Kadyrov's involvement in the murder of Natalia Estemirova, a human rights defender, who worked in Chechnya.

Nakhichevan has just a few independent journalists; they have to be engaged in human rights activities at the same time, as Malakhat Nasibova, a journalist from Azerbaijan, said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Ms Nasibova was awarded by the Norwegian human rights organization "Rafto Foundation" for her coverage of events in Nakhichevan.

Today, the Tver Court of Moscow has held its first hearing on the merits of the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on defence of honour, dignity and business reputation. The claim stems from Mr Orlov's statement that President of Chechnya is responsible for the kidnapping in Chechnya and murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova.

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has announced, in his interview to the newspaper "Zavtra" (Tomorrow), the name of his possible successor - Adam Delimkhanov, now - deputy of the State Duma of Russia. The prospect of seeing this person as President of Chechnya inspires not many of its residents.

Ambassador Hansjorg Haber, head of the Mission of Observers of the European Union (MOEU), has stated that the fifth meeting on incident prevention, held under the mechanism designed in the course of Geneva negotiations on September 24 in Ergneti village, Gori District, in the border of Georgia and South Ossetia, saw some progress.