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Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has rejected the defence's appeal against the arrest and subsequent release on bail of Yuri Khachaturov, the Secretary General of the CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization), who is accused within the case of dispersing protests ten years ago.

Today, at the trial in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, the court questioned a law enforcer from the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division). The witness denied his acquaintance with Oyub Titiev, but failed to explain why he wore the same uniform as other law enforcers who took part in the detention of the rights defender.

During the past day, the ceasefire regime on the contact line was violated 94 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reports today. There were no reports about shelling of villages and towns.

A resident of the Korenovsk District was fined for posting images with Nazi attributes and symbols on a social network page, the Prosecutor's Office reported.

Tigran Khachatryan has been put on the wanted list. According to investigators, he forged documents to avoid military service, when his father Surik Khachatryan was the Governor of the Syunik Region in Armenia.

The action in support of Aslan Yandiev, extradited from Slovakia to Russia and accused of involvement in a series of terror acts in North Ossetia, was held in Volgograd.

Most of the law enforcers from the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), who were questioned in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, stated that they did not see him at the police station, they were not acquainted with the rights defender, and they did not take part in his detention and bringing him to the police department.

Azerbaijani refugee Farid Yusub, accused of theft, forgery of documents, and illegal crossing of the border, associated his persecution in Azerbaijan with his opposition views. The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) believes that at home, the refugee can be subjected to torture and unfair trial.

Today, a businessman from the city of Volzhsky has held a picket outside the building of the Russian FSB, stating that he has faced an attempt to deprive him of his hotel complex, and complaining about corruption in power structures of the Volgograd Region.

Motorized rifle soldiers and marines, raised by training alert, have moved to the coastal training ground Adanak in Dagestan, the Southern Military District (SMD) has reported.

The people accompanying the head of the "Lidian Armenia" Company sprayed gas, from which a policeman and four activists suffered, who blocked the road to the Amulsar deposit. The Inspectorate for Ecology and Mineral Resources of Armenia has urged the "Lidian Armenia" to suspend the works at the mine until the re-inspection is over.

The "Levada Centre" explains the growth of xenophobic attitudes towards natives of the Caucasus by the deterioration of the socio-economic situation. At the same time, the sociological survey published today indicates a marked improvement in the attitude of Russian residents to natives from Chechnya.

Today, the court rejected the petition of the defence of Malkhaz Kobauri to release him from arrest for killing the Smith family in mountains of Georgia.

After the recent series of attacks on policemen, law enforcers took teenagers straight from the streets and conducted many-hours-long interrogations of them, residents of the Shali District of Chechnya have reported. According to their estimates, from 150 to 200 people were detained.

Five people perished and five others were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 20 to August 26, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, at the trial of Oyub Titiev, the head of Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Yusup Shakhgeriev, a policeman, stated that he knew nobody from the direct-action team. An advocate of Oyub Titiev has objected that he personally saw the witness handshaking with the group.

Over the past day, the Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line 82 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

Today, the 8th annual international open-air film festival "A Point in the Infinite Universe" has finished in Abkhazia. 36 films were shown during the festival.

The Chechen TV has announced the full Kremlin support for the Ramzan Kadyrov's statements against rights defenders. The authorities actively try to justify the scandalous statements voiced by the Chechen leader, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local activists.

Attack of teenagers on policemen in Chechnya; celebration of Eid al-Adha in the Caucasus; visit of the Chancellor of Germany to Southern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 20-26, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".