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Mass detentions were launched in Argun before the August series of attacks on policemen in Chechnya, and stopped after the appointment of a new head of the interior department, local residents have reported.

Exercises of more than 500 militaries from the Russian base in Armenia were held at the "Alagyaz" training ground, the Southern Military District (SMD) has reported.

The court in Baku has denied the conditional early relief (CER) to Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

Over the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 99 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The Judge, who is considering the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", told about futile search for a witness who allegedly saw Oyub smoking marijuana. Swedish rights defenders from the organization entitled "Civil Right Defenders" came to visit the court session.

Law enforcers of Chechnya have rejected the idea to hold a people's assembly, announced by them earlier, to expel the families of the participants in the attacks on policemen.

Under protection of Chechen policemen, workers from Chechnya moved deep into the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, while continuing building the road, activists asserts. Residents of Ingushetia are outraged that the authorities left these actions without reaction, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, has stated.

Policemen have offered teachers to give negative characteristics to the participants in the recent attacks on law enforcers, a source said. The Chechnya's Minister of Information has refuted the data on any pressure exerted on the families of assassinated teenagers.

The Armenian national judo team will not go to the World Championships in Azerbaijan, because of absence of security guarantees from the hosting party. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Sports claims that it has issued a guarantee letter to Armenian athletes.

The court has sentenced a resident of Ingushetia to eight years in prison, having found him guilty of killing his 31-year-old daughter. A police source said that it was an "honour murder."

The international South Caucasian forum with participation of Russian journalists and political analysts has begun against the backdrop of a protest action. Four Russian participants of the event were not allowed to enter the territory of Georgia.

During the past day, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled 83 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reported.

One person was killed and other three people were injured as a result of an explosion in the city of Poti.

An operational video record disseminated on the Internet shows how law enforcers detain Magomedrasul Omarov.

At the Nagvalou Training Range, the personnel of the Southern Military District (SMD) in Abkhazia and servicemen of the Abkhaz Ministry of Defence (MoD) have repulsed the conditional attack of the Marine Corps assault on the Black Sea coast.

A sharp drop of the Turkish lira and the noticeable weakening of the Russian rouble at the background of expected new sanctions have affected the Azerbaijani manat and the Georgian lari. The economic crisis in Turkey has already caused serious losses for the oil sector of Azerbaijan and promises further negative consequences for the country's economy.

The investigators took a written recognizance not to leave the country from the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, who was accused within the case of dispersal of the oppositional rally.

Family members of the participants in the attack on policemen on August 20 have left Shali under the pressure of law enforcers, local residents said. According to the estimates of the "Caucasian Knot", this is the sixth case during two years, when relatives of members of the underground and the people, whom the authorities labelled as militants, were forced to leave their home.

Young people were detained after the appearance in the outskirts of the village of Koshkeldy of a flag of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court. Kheda Saratova, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya, has reported that young people were released.

The cognac factories in the Armavir Region have drastically dropped the purchase prices for grapes, local farmers assert. In protest, they blocked the highway to Yerevan today.