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The chairman of the board for the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has urged the law enforcement agencies to check a playwright Mikhail Zhilkin's message about receiving threats from Chechnya after a Chechen official held Mikhail Zhilkin in Grozny for four years.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) has launched a verification after Aslan Cherkesov, who is serving his sentence in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for murdering a fan of the "Spartak" FC, complained about torture and beatings in a penal colony. This was reported by the FSIN Department.

The police are looking for unidentified people who fired at a staff member of the FSIN Department in Makhachkala. The victim was hospitalized, reported the spokesperson for the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

Two persons were injured in a mine explosion in a yard of a private house in Yerevan, and one of them died in a hospital.

Four staff members of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) have been injured while liquidating consequences of an explosion at an ammunition depot in Abkhazia.

Two women died when they were on horseback riding in the vicinity of an ammunition depot. According to the preliminary information, they were residents of Saint Petersburg, the Abkhazian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reported.

In connection with the attack on a Russian family committed in the village of Khipsta, four persons are being searched. The attackers stole 85,000 roubles and a couple of rings, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Abkhazia has reported. The condition of Valentina Bykovets, who suffered from the attack, is stable, doctors report.

During a press conference following a meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili, Mike Pence has stated that Georgia is a strategic partner of the United States. According to Mike Pence, US President Donald Trump sent him to Georgia with a message: "We support you; we stand next to you, next to the Georgian people."

Among the victims of the explosion at the depot of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the Gudauta District, there are seriously wounded ones, the head of the Ministry of Public Health (MPH) of Abkhazia reports.

Ramzan Kadyrov has reported the return to Russia of a minor resident of Chechnya, who had been brought to Syria and found among the ruins in the city of Mosul.

The resonant case of torture at the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) fails to deter power agents from new violations of rights of residents of Ingushetia during detention, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial” has stated in connection with information about torturing Khasan Esmurziev and Magomed Ozdoev.

This afternoon, a huge explosion has occurred at an ammunition depot in the Gudauta District in Abkhazia. The explosion resulted in a fire and continued detonation of shells. The authorities of the republic evacuate people from villages and towns located near the place of emergency.

Almir Abregov, the first chairman of the "Adyge Khase-Circassian Parliament" for Adygea, the former director of the National Museum of Adygea, died in the 73rd year of his life. When commenting on the loss, Circassian activists stated that the strategist of the Adyg national movement had gone.

Students from a faculty of the Volgograd Academy for the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) have been brought to disciplinary responsibility for celebrating the completion of their studies "on a large scale." Officials of the faculty have also been punished.

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court has cancelled the decision of the Lazarevskoe District Court to fine Ruslan Gvashev. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Marina Dubrovina, an advocate of the human rights organization "Agora", who represented the Ruslan Gvashev's interests.

The intention of the Russian President to meet Raul Khadjimba in Abkhazia proves the "continuing occupation" of the territory by Russia. This was stated by officials from the Georgian authorities.

A girl injured in the Iraqi city of Mosul was taken from Chechnya by her parents. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the law enforcement agencies.

The court of the city of Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, has sentenced Archiko Rogava and his son Paata, residents of the city of Zugdidi, to two years in prison each, having found them to be infringers of the state border.

On August 1, a regular session was held on the case of Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of Olympic facilities in Sochi, accused of false denunciation of policemen and stealing cable from the construction site. The defence insisted on calling and questioning the workers from Kyrgyzstan, who gave essential evidence against Demerchyan.

Stanislav Lisov, a programmer from Taganrog, suspected of developing malicious software, will be extradited to the United States. This decision was made by the Spanish court.