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Family members of Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, the first Georgian President, have appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to declare members of his family his legal successors. This was reported by advocate Amiran Giguashvili.

The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) considers the arrest of Ruslan Gara, a party activist from the city of Sumgait, to be politically motivated and intends to file a complaint. Ismail Islamoglu, the Chairman of the Democratic Youth Organization of Azerbaijan, has also reported hi summoning to the police.

The military exercises of NATO’s member-countries and partners “Noble Partner” with the participation of over 2800 militaries from eight countries – Georgia, United States, Great Britain, Germany, Turkey, Slovenia, Armenia and Ukraine – are over in Georgia.

These appeals concern about 240 children who were taken from Dagestan to Iraq and Syria; however, there may be about a thousand children in these countries, Marina Yezhova, the Dagestani children’s Ombudsperson, has stated.

Builders are repairing the houses damaged by the explosions; the restoration of destroyed houses will begin in the near future, said Anzor Sakaniya, the head of the village of Primorskoe. According to the Ministry of Public Health of Abkhazia, all the victims of the explosions have been discharged from the republic's hospitals.

Today, Andrei Koshik, a Krasnodar freelance journalist, has got phone calls and SMS-messages with threats of violence and insults. He associates the threats with his publications about a conflict between Kuban farmers and a Rostov concern.

Alambek Yasaev, an assistant to the Chechen leader, has been appointed the chief of the Ramzan Kadyrov's secretariat. He has also headed the operational headquarters for combating drug addiction set up on August 11.

Tengiz Mikava, detained at the border with Abkhazia on August 10, returned to the village of Tkaia. This was reported by the Georgian State Security Service (SSS).

In Rostov-on-Don, at the trial, the jury has pronounced a verdict of guilty in the case on involvement of seven Ingush residents in an illegal armed formation (IAF). This is the second trial in the case. Earlier, the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has recognized five members of the grouping as innocent, and two others guilty in part.

The Khasavyurt District Court has started the consideration of the criminal case against Akhmed Aduev, a resident of Dagestan, accused of aiding and abetting militants. Investigators did not provide evidence of the Akhmed Aduev's guilt, stated his advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.

The international organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has demanded from the Azerbaijani authorities to stop the prosecution of the agency "Turan", against which a criminal case on tax evasion has been instituted.

The advocates of Arthur Panov, a citizen of Ukraine, and Maxim Smyshlyaev, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, convicted for preparing a terror act in Rostov-on-Don, have announced their intent to appeal against the verdict because of its severity. Later, Panov may be extradited to Ukraine, the Consulate General of Ukraine has noted.

Relatives of children from Dagestan, taken by their parents to Iraq to the territories controlled by militants, should not make attempts to take them by themselves, but they should appeal for help to the Russian authorities. This was stated by the authorities of Dagestan.

Journalist Khadija Ismayilova could not get permission to attend the ceremony of awarding the Allard International Prize. Khadija Ismayilova treats the decision pronounced by the court on August 10 as violation of her right to freedom of movement.

After the Friday prayer, law enforcers detained believers of a Salafi mosque in General Omarov Street in Makhachkala. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) said that all 15 detainees had already been released.

In Rostov-on-Don, about 450 people took part in the action "March of the Living" on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the largest execution of civilians in the Soviet Union territory occupied by fascists.

Electricity supply is periodically cut off in the area of the dacha community of Krivaya Balka near Makhachkala, and thus water supply stops. The power sales company announces a large debt, the trial for recovery of which has been started today.

According to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), an installation of fences along the border with Abkhazia impedes the peace process and helps isolate the population. The MFA for Georgia has urged Russia to "stop aggressive steps against Georgia.

Under instruction of Ramzan Kadyrov, in all municipalities of Chechnya, special commissions work to convince divorced spouses to restore families. Local residents doubt durability of marriages concluded at request of the authorities.

Physicians estimate the condition of a 46-year-old Armenian woman injured during the armed attack on a hotel in Hurghada as severe but stable.