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Leyla Gagieva appealed to human rights defenders with a request to help reveal the whereabouts of her husband. On August 23, the man was detained after a special operation conducted in the Ingush village of Troitskoye. Since then, the woman is not aware of where her husband is being kept and what charges are being brought against him, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

Dzambolat Kalaev, a resident of North Ossetia, posted on the Internet a video appeal with apologies for hitting a train car attendant. Instagram users believe that the native of Chechnya had suffered. They did not accept the man's apologies and called for physical violence against Dzambolat Kalaev.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 30 times over 24 hours, including from large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

Aishat Kadyrova has been appointed the first deputy of Chechen minister of culture only because of her kinship with the head of the republic, Instagram users have suggested.

Emin Sagiev, recognized as a political prisoner, who has been on a hunger strike in the Azerbaijani colony since August 18, has been transferred to the colony's medical-sanitary unit. There, he was visited by employees of the Ombudsperson's office, who provided him with legal advice.

Seventeen out of 34 South-Ossetian parliamentarians have suspended their work pending resignation of Uruzmag Djagaev, the Public Prosecutor General, to whom the parliament announced a vote of distrust after the death of Inal Djambiev, detained by law enforcers. Djagaev refused to follow the MPs' demand.

The head of Chechnya has signed a decree appointing his daughter Aishat Kadyrova to the post of the first deputy minister of culture; Ramzan Kadyrov himself has announced this.

Fatima Dzgoeva, who received grave traumas during the Beslan school seizure, needs expensive treatment and rehabilitation abroad. Her relatives are unable to raise the necessary funds; while the federal budget fails to pay for the rehabilitation of Beslan terror act victims, the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper writes.

The criminal prosecution of Martin Kochesoko has to do with his social and political activities and is of an ordered nature, public figures of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) said in their appeal to Murat Kumpilov, the head of the Republic of Adygea.

Alexei Sutuga, an anarchist activist, has died in Moscow after being hospitalized with grave traumas. According to the police, he was beaten up by four natives of Chechnya.

In Beslan, more than 1000 people took part in the mourning events in the first hours after they began. The number of participants in the traditional memory watch was not limited, despite the threat of the coronavirus infection.

A native of Urus-Martan left for Syria, where he joined the ranks of a banned terrorist organization and took part in combat actions, investigators claim.

David Kankiya claimed that law enforcers stopped him in the street and demanded to give them his mobile phone, while threatening with an arrest. Today, the activist has associated the law enforcers' actions with the training of observers at the election of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory launched by the movement "Golos" (Vote).

In North Ossetia, schools will organize solemn morning gatherings on September 4, after a three-day watch in memory of people who fell victim to the terror act in Beslan, the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia reports. In South Ossetia, the new school year will begin on September 5, the republic's authorities announce.

The rights of detained activists from the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan to visits and phone calls are being violated. According to relatives, no advocates are allowed to visit some of the activists arrested after an action held in Baku on July 15.

Timur Tskhurbati, an activist, was hospitalized after being attacked during the funeral of Inal Djabiev in Tskhinvali; his cheekbone and nose were broken, Tskhurbati himself has stated.

Instagram users were surprised by law enforcers' threats to send detainees for drinking alcohol to work. The salary of 1000 roubles a day, promised by the police officer to detainees, is a dream for many residents of the republic, commentators assert.

On the 13th day of his hunger strike, Emin Sagiev, an Azerbaijani political prisoner, needed medical help. The doctor urged Sagiev to stop the action, saying that he would not be able to help him otherwise, Aigun Sagieva, Emin's wife, has informed.

More than 1000 Azerbaijani citizens have accumulated in the border village of Kullar, who are waiting for the departure to their homeland; the tent camp set up by the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) contains "tents full of women and children," a representative of the National-Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis has informed.

Residents of South Ossetia continued their spontaneous rally in the square in front of the government building in Tskhinvali. They demand resignation of the republic's head.