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The Georgian authorities have appealed to several states for help in extinguishing the fire in the area of the Abastumani resort. Today, Ukraine and Turkey have sent aircraft to help Georgia.

At a Moscow hotel, the police arrested Umar Djabrailov, a businessman and a former senator from Chechnya. This has been reported today by a source from the law enforcement agencies.

In connection with the celebration of the Eid al-Adha holiday, by the decree of the Chechen leader, the days of August 31, September 1 and 2 are announced to be the days off in the republic.

In the evening on August 29, the Turan news agency released a statement, claiming the pressure from investigators on the news agency's staff members.

According to residents of Grozny, law enforcers failed to warn them about the antiterrorist exercises carried out in a residential quarter on August 29.

In Rostov-on-Don, a march of Gukovo miners should be coordinated with each municipality along the route. This was stated by the Gukovo administration. On the day of the march start, provocations may occur with the purpose to stop the action by force, members of the initiative group believe.

The verdict of the Supreme Court of Russia in the case against Khasan Zakaev failed to take into account the interests of the victims and did not compensate for the damage suffered by them, assert advocates of the victims.

The health state of rights defender Igor Nagavkin, who on August 8 declared indefinite hunger strike in the Butyrka SIZO (pre-trial prison), worsened. This was reported by his advocate.

Employees of the Georgian Railways continue hunger-striking in Tbilisi. Doctors provided help to activist Ilya Lezhava; another hunger-striker was prohibited to continue the protest.

Activists of the public organization “Ochag” (Hearth) are raising funds to congratulate Syrian Circassians on the Kurban Bayram holiday.

Each of 45 families affected by the fires in the Volgograd Region was paid one-time social compensation in the amount of 10,000-50,000 roubles. This was reported by the authorities for the Volgograd Region.

A resident of Kaspiysk has been detained on suspicion of involvement in an attack on law enforcers at a gas station, during which one staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was killed and another was wounded.

Today, a video published on YouTube has shown the moment of detonation of a house in Khasavyurt, where, according to law enforcers, improvised explosive devices (IED) were discovered.

On August 28, Alexander Mukomolov, a member of the presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), the chairman of the permanent commission for civil participation in peacekeeping and human rights protection in Northern Caucasus, met residents of Chechnya and Dagestan, whose grandchildren and nephews had been found in Iraq and Syria.

Today, a working group, consisting of Azerbaijani rights defenders, NGO activists, and lawyers has released the list of political prisoners. It includes new names of journalists, including Mekhman Aliev, the director of the Turan news agency. The activists keep monitoring cases against other six persons.

The authorities of Novorossiysk have not allowed Nikolai Alekseev, a founder of the Moscow gay parade, to hold rallies and marches to prevent the LGBT propaganda among minors. This has been reported today by the city administration.

This morning, in Grozny, an explosion occurred after a series of shots, eyewitnesses report. A large number of law enforcers were accumulated at the place of the incident, and they told local residents about training exercises.

One man suspected of causing fires in the Volgograd Region has confessed to the crime, and the second suspect has been identified. This was reported by Governor Andrei Bocharov to the Russian President.

People who shelled in Chechnya Mukhmad Askhabov, a member of the Chechen Parliament, were travelling in a black foreign-made car. This was reported by the investigative bodies. According to relative of the deceased MP, during his lifetime he did not receive any threats.

In Azerbaijan, the criminal case instituted against Natiq Jafarli, the executive secretary of the movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), has been closed.