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Yuri Golder, the head of the Volgograd Consumer Rights Protection Association and a member of the Volgograd City Human Rights Council (HRC), suspected of taking a bribe from a businessman, has been arrested until September 26.

Sergey Bachurin, the head of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has reported the prevention, since the start of the year, of 190 NCFD residents from joining terrorist organizations.

Marina Grishina, a track-and-field athlete from the Krasnodar Territory, has won the long jump event at the Deaflympic (Surdolympic) Games; and Polina Smirnova, a Sochi lawn tennis player, has won a silver medal there.

In the Martuni District, a ZIL truck drove over a land mine; the driver and passengers were not injured, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

Roman Rubanov, the leader of the Anti-Corruption Fund has appealed to a district investigating division of Volgograd, suggesting that cutting down the Widow's Park at the Mamaev Mound may look like a public desecration of the symbols of Russia's military glory.

A man suspected of shooting and killing a resident of Nazran has been identified, and a search for him is underway. This was reported by investigators, who refused to comment on a version about blood feud.

More than 1500 discoveries from 32 burial complexes dating from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages were investigated at the site of the construction of the "Platov" Airport in the Rostov Region. The discoveries were brought to the Azov Museum-Reserve.

Reports on the wounding of two law enforcers in an explosion in the outskirts of the village of Nozhai-Yurt have not been confirmed, report sources from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the “Natsgvardia” (National Guard) of Russia. Local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in fact, two explosions occurred.

In Chechnya, educational institutions have been ordered to purchase school diaries with an emblem of the "Akhmat" FC printed in a local printing house. This was reported by school teachers and parents of schoolchildren.

In the case against 18 members of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun), an advocate and one of the defendants stated that Judge Artush Gabrielyan violates the right of the defendants to defence and fails to ensure their safety. Artush Gabrielyan has rejected both motions for his self-disqualification.

Relatives of the residents of Chechnya enrolled in the so-called "execution list" published by the “Novaya Gazeta”, were forced to sign statements that their relatives had left for Syria or left home by themselves, the Russian BBC Service reports.

Ramzan Kadyrov is ready to resign and spend the rest of his life guarding the Al-Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The head of Chechnya has stated this in connection with the conflict situation around the above mosque.

The car of a Nazran resident was shelled from automatic firearms; the driver died. This was reported by a law enforcement source, who suggested that the murder was committed on the blood feud grounds.

The Georgian opposition "United National Movement" (UNM) Party has treated the deprivation of Mikhail Saakashvili of his Ukrainian citizenship a conspiracy of the authorities of Georgia and Ukraine. Georgian experts believe that the countries agreed on the above during the visit of Petro Poroshenko to Georgia on July 17-19.

In the Rostov Region, miners of the "Kingcoal" company and employees of the "Vostochnaya" mine have decided to stop their hunger strike due to authorities’ indifference and health deterioration. This was reported by Tatiana Avachyova, a member of the initiative group.

The decision of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to deprive Mikhail Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship will be challenged at court, the advocate Pavel Bogomazov has stated. In Kiev, Saakashvili's supporters have clashed with the police.

Local leaders in the village of Leninaul and social network provocateurs had contributed to the escalation of the village conflict, Dagestani journalists have stated. The authorities should settle the land disputes, rather than trying to settle Chechens-Avars conflicts, social network users believe.

Two explosions occurred on the outskirts of the village of Nozhai-Yurt, where two law enforcers came for water.

People support Alexei Navalny mainly for his struggle against corruption. This opinion was voiced by volunteers of Alexei Navalny's offices in five southern cities of Russian Federation. The opponents of Alexei Navalny criticize involvement of schoolchildren in the protests and talk about the "artificial nature" for the oppositionist's political struggle.

Yuri Golder, a member of the Volgograd Human Rights Council (HRC), has been detained on suspicion of commercial bribery, and investigators prepare a request for his detention, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.