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At the request of the defence, the criminal case against Eldar Gasanov, a former Azeri Ambassador to three Balkan countries, has been transferred from the State Security Service (SSS) to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The defence was satisfied with the "objective" consideration of the motion. The decision has increased Gasanov's hope for a fair trial, his defence has stated.

The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has confirmed the killing of a suspected militant in the Nazran District of Ingushetia and released a video of the counterterrorist operation (CTO).

The Abkhazian opposition demands the resignation of the presidential adviser, who organized the trip of Irma Inashvili, the leader of the "Alliance of Patriots of Georgia" Party, to the Gali District. The politician's visit was coordinated with Russia, Georgian political analysts suggest.

According to a video posted on Instagram, a resident of the Kurchaloi District was reprimanded at a police station for careless driving in 2018. Social network users were surprised that the law enforcement bodies were interested in highlighting the violation committed two years ago.

Today, one of the suspected militants has been killed in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) held in the village of Ali-Yurt in the Nazran District. The CTO in Ali-Yurt was preceded by four other special operations in the Sunzha District and one in Nazran conducted in 2020.

Administrative protocols have been drawn up against 14 Rostov activists for violating the procedure for holding a picket and laying flowers in support of citizens of Belarus.

The inquiry into the case of a 38-year-old resident of the Khasavyurt District, accused of membership in a unit of the "At-Takfir Wal-Hijra", a religious extremist organization banned in Russia, is over, investigators have informed.

Some rituals of honouring the dead, for example, laying flowers on graves, date back to Soviet times, but are alien to the Islamic and Chechen traditions, Caucasian scholars have noted in their comments on the celebrations of the 69th birthday of Akhmat Kadyrov, the ex-head of Chechnya.

The exchange of Gurgen Alaverdyan, the captured Armenian officer, for the Azerbaijanis convicted for committing murder in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is unequal and will be a mistake, the analysts, Ayk Khachikyan and Vlad Vartanyan, believe. The likelihood of the exchange is high given the change of the NKR leadership, Naira Airumyan, a political observer, has noted.

Gurgen Alaverdyan, the Armenian officer detained by Azeri militaries, was charged with espionage and waging an aggressive war.

The Kadyrov Foundation has organized a large-scale charity campaign of distributing food packages among those in need on the anniversary of the birthday of Akhmat Kadyrov, the former head of Chechnya. Residents of the republic have treated the amount of help as insignificant and complained that it failed to reach all the poor.

On Tuesday, August 25, 400 Azerbaijani citizens were taken from the camp near Kullar to the Azerbaijani border. About 800 other citizens are still awaiting their return to homeland. The number of people arriving in Dagestan for sending to Azerbaijan will only grow, Afig Allakhverdiev, a deputy chairman of the National Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis in the Moscow Region, has suggested.

The Chechen Diaspora has many members who support Ramzan Kadyrov and share his attitude to women, Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, and Svetlana Gannushkina, a rights defender, believe. The appearance of the "Moral Guards" is due to the conservative lifestyle of Chechens, said Ruslan Kutaev, an activist.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in two border areas, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

In Sunzha, nine participants of a conflict with a shooting were wounded, while three others were injured during a fight, sources reported.

A businessman privatized a house in Kobuleti, which was home to 12 families in a difficult situation. Tenants held a protest action with the demand not to evict them from the building or provide them with housing.

A submachine gun, a pistol, a grenade and cartridges were found in a forest hideout in the Sergokala District of Dagestan, the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) has informed.

Journalists from the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Company are investigating the death of the Georgian programmer, Tamar Bachaliashvili. The young woman was engaged in drawing funds out of bank accounts of some company, and was killed as an unwanted witness; and traces of the country's authorities are seen in the case, Nika Gvaramiya, Director General of the TV Company, has stated. Mikhail Ramishvili, an advocate, pointed to inconsistencies in the programmer's death case.

At the protest action, residents of the Georgian village of Toriya, which is predominantly populated by Armenians, demanded to release their three fellow villagers detained after the conflict with Azerbaijanis over a place for grazing.

One of the two men killed during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Ingushetia on August 6 turned out to be Khusen Gadamauri, a native of Chechnya, who was extradited from Germany in 2017 under Russia's guarantees, sources have reported. Human rights defenders assert that asylum requests in Europe, especially submitted by North-Caucasians, are considered superficially.