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During the last 24 hours, the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line was violated for 73 times with the use of large-calibre machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Azamat Baiduev, a resident of Chechnya, who was declared kidnapped after being deported to Russia from Poland, is suspected of links with Syrian militants, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

An ensign of the State Border Service of Azerbaijan has died at the customs checkpoint under the wheels of a truck.

The commemorations of the victims of the terror act in Beslan were held in Moscow and other Russian cities. President Vladimir Putin had no plans to take part in any of them on September 1-3.

The Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd has granted the prosecutor's to collect in favour of a builder of the "Volgograd Arena" Stadium his salary debt for 4.5 months and compensation of moral harm in the amount of more than 229,000 roubles.

In the city of Argun, law enforcers have tortured 40 detainees trying to knock confessions out of them, sources assert. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya calls this information a lie.

Azerbaijani law enforcers stopped the action "Returning Home", held near the troops contact line. A forced migrant, who wanted to return to his native Karabakh village, as well as his supporters, were detained at the border, activists have reported. The authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have treated the incident as a provocation.

A soldier of the Armed Forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) was found dead in a military unit, the republic's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

One person was killed and two more were wounded in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 27 to September 2, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Russia can ignore the demands of 15 OSCE member states to report within a ten-day period on measures taken to protect human rights in Chechnya, note Russian rights defenders.

On September 1, a group of Azerbaijani rights defenders, NGO activists, and lawyers released an updated list of political prisoners, which included 128 names. Activists monitor the cases against other two prisoners.

Azamat Baiduev, who was extradited by the Polish authorities to Russia, was kidnapped from his house in the village of Shalazhi in the Urus-Martan District a day after his arrival in Chechnya. That was reported by Akhmed Gisaev, the leader of the Human Rights Analysis Centre.

Day of Knowledge and anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; actions in Southern Russia against the pension reform after the President Putin's proposals; presentation of an updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan; emergency landing of a passenger aircraft in Sochi; claim of 15 OSCE member states on the violations of human rights in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 27-September 2, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Festivities on Republic Declaration Day were held in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). It should unite with Armenia, the local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Residents of South Ossetia have supported the decision of the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences to postpone the Knowledge Day until September 5 in connection with the 14th anniversary of the terror act in Beslan. However, the Tskhinvali women, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", are surprised at the decision of North-Ossetian authorities to combine the funeral events with the start of the school year.

The multinational NATO exercises Agile Spirit 2018 with the participation of servicemen from the USA, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Greece, Ukraine, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Estonia have begun on the base of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Armed Forces in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.

In the course of an armed clash in Dagestan, law enforcers killed a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF), an informed source has reported.

Advocates have lodged a complaint to the Court of Cassation of Armenia, indicating two grounds for the release of Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, which were not taken into account by the Court of Appeal.

Giorgi Chelidze, the head of the "National Unity of Georgia" is suspected of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.

A three-day memorial watch for those killed in the terror act in Beslan in 2004 kicked off on September 1 with laying flowers in the memorial complex. By noon, about a thousand people visited the memorial.