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The performance of Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, live on air of the "Imedi" (Hope) TV Company on September 25 has caused a resonance in the society.

Vagap Tutakov, former separatists' representative in Strasbourg, who was released in Chechnya after almost two weeks in custody, was hospitalized.

Today, the police of the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, have violently dispersed the action of the members of the "Dalga" Youth Movement, when they tried to hold a march along the central streets of the capital.

The bombardment of the city of Tskhinval, the capital of South Ossetia, from the territory of Georgia that has lasted tonight for almost two hours was stopped.

In Ingushetia, on September 24, in the settlement of Barsuki, dozens of armed persons in masks rushed into house and took away Estoev brothers - Musa Muradovich, born in 1974, and Adam Muradovich, born in 1987, in unknown direction.

According to the press service of the Rostov Regional Prosecutor's Office, Kravchenko, Mikhail Romanovich, former drift miner of the Zverevo Mining Administration (retired in 2000), did not take part in the picket that started in the city of Zverevo on September 14, 2007.

On September 22, Khyakimeldostu Mekhtiev, regional correspondent of the "Eni Musavat" newspaper for the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan, was sentenced by the Sharur District Court to a 15-day administrative arrest.

Togrul Babaev, defender of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health, has informed that an attempt is being prepared on his client.

The US position in relation to the freedom of the media and status of journalists in Azerbaijan is very simple and transparent: journalists should not be subject to imprisonment because of their expressed thoughts.

Today, the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court (Rostov-on-Don) has continued hearing the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya.

The Supreme Court of Russia has cancelled the non-guilty verdict in the case of murdering Arthur Sardaryan, an Armenian of 19, committed in a Moscow suburban electric train in May 2006.

The Committee to Protect Journalists will honor four courageous journalists from Russia, Pakistan, China, and Mexico with 2007 International Press Freedom Awards in November.

"Citizens of Russia were kidnapped by the Georgian police in the village of Avnev of the Znaur District of South Ossetia, occupied by power agencies of Georgia," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the United Press Centre of the Republic of South Ossetia (RSO).

President of Abkhazia has informed that negotiations on releasing Abkhazian border servicemen are conducted with Thomas Hammerberg, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, and with those international structures who should deal with it.

Sources in Abkhazia are asserting that two Abkhazian servicemen were executed by Georgian militaries already after capture, and they had rendered no resistance.