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Power agents have completed their counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the village of Psedakh, where three members of the Malgobek militant grouping were killed, the FSB Department for Ingushetia reports.

A Hungarian citizen suffered a fatal injury during a rockfall in Svanetia.

On August 24, villagers of Goor-Khindakh will hold Muslim commemoration of Gasanguseinov brothers killed by law enforcers in Dagestan. During the past year, investigators failed to prove that the shepherds were militants, local residents and the lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" have noted.

In the basement of a house in the Ingush village of Psedakh, where the killed militants were hiding, an underground bunker and a shop for making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found. This was stated by the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes has sentenced Rovshan Gadirov, an Azerbaijani resident, to ten years in prison, finding him to be a member of illegal armed formations (IAFs) in Pakistan and Syria. His advocate claims that no evidence of Gadirov's guilt was presented and intends to appeal against the verdict.

Today, Chechnya celebrates the birthday of Akhmat Kadyrov, a former head of Chechnya, who was killed in May 2004. The authorities timed a number of events to this date.

Men killed today in the Malgobek District were plotting a series of terror acts. This was announced by Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov. He threatened to take measure against the officials who failed to prevent the activities of militants.

The disappearance of Zelimkhan Bakaev was unexpected and contradicted the family plans, reported the singer's mother.

Residents of Dagestan swore allegiance to the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in the Russian Federation and took part in its activities in the Khasavyurt District.

In the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, at least seven armed incidents preceded the current special operation carried out by law enforcers. The reports about five of them mentioned the names of the people killed in the Psedakh village.

In Ingushetia, according to the preliminary information, three persons were killed, including Bekkhan Soltukiev, Mikail Cherbizhev, and Khasan Khatsiev. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement agencies. According to the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC), the killed men were involved in attacks on law enforcers.

Law enforcers killed four persons cordoned off in a house in an area of a counterterrorist operation (CTO). This was reported by a source from the law enforcement agencies in Ingushetia.

The Khabarovsk law enforcement agencies promised to pay 500,000 roubles for the information about the whereabouts of Anar Allakhveranov, an Azerbaijani native, suspected of murdering power lifter Andrei Drachov.

Salim Akhobekov, detained for dancing lezginka in Gelendzhik for five days, has been transferred to the hospital in Pyatigorsk. Physicians suspect that the man was poisoned by gas sprayed during his detention. Angela Maxidova, an injured eyewitness of the lezginka dancers' detention, still stays in the hospital.

Organizers of a charity action held in the city of Pitsunda managed to raise 315,240 roubles for treatment of a three-year-old boy, suffering from epilepsy, in Krasnodar.

The court in Sochi has sentenced Lyubov Garaeva, a local resident, to three years of freedom deprivation under the article of a fraud. She was arrested in the courtroom.

Townspeople have called on the authorities to help the fire victims by the funds allotted to celebrate the City Day. The respective motion has gathered 12,252 signatures in less than 24 hours.

The court in Krasnodar has refused to grant a complaint against the extension of the arrest of Anzor Magomadov, a resident of Sochi, suspected of preparing a terror act and an attempt to join militants in Syria. Magomadov's guilt has not been proved; and he has been unreasonably kept in custody for over a year, his advocate has stated.

The Internet newspaper "Fontanka" has posted the names and passport data of natives of Southern Russia, who took part in warfare in Syria as members of the "Wagner" Private Military Company and perished there. The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has refuted this data.

The repentance action of Grozny residents, who wrote a letter about torture to the Prosecutor General, did not take place, because of the intervention of the administration of Russian President, after Kadyrov's conversation with the head of the Chechen FSB Department. This was reported by the “Novaya Gazeta”.