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Usman Murdalov, a resident of Chechnya, who was killed while attacking inspectors of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) in the Moscow Region, had planned to join his family members, who had earlier moved to Germany. This was reported by relatives and friends of Usman Murdalov.

Relatives of the Avetisyan family members murdered in Gyumri claim that Valery Permyakov was not able to commit a crime alone. They intend to appeal against the verdict.

The Belgian secret services have compiled a list of suspected terrorists, which included 614 people. Of them, 29 are citizens of Russia, the edition "Knack" reports. According to it, the number of Russian citizens mostly includes natives of the North-Caucasian republics, who have connections with the terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz" banned in Russia by court.

The fight against dissent in Chechnya was enhanced in late 2014, and the measures taken by the authorities are of repressive and punitive nature. This was stated by the human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW). Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly received signals of the Kremlin's dissatisfaction with his policy, and a carte blanche given to him in Chechnya is not absolute, said Tatiana Lokshina, Russia programme director at HRW, while commenting on the HRW's report.

A terror act prevented in the village of Ali-Yurt was directed against Imam Isa Tsechoev and connected with the threats in his address earlier voiced by the authorities of Chechnya. This was stated by human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A picket organized as a part of the "Strategy-31", an All-Russian civil movement in defence of freedom of assembly in Russia, was held at the place in front of the State Bank building in Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Nina Karpenko, Alexander Matviyenko, and Igor Maslov, farmers from the Krasnodar Territory, have recorded a video appeal to the Russian President. They have asked Vladimir Putin to help the arrested participants of the "tractor march" and to solve the problems with raiders' seizures and corruption in Kuban.

After Russian Paralympic athletes were disqualified from the competitions in Rio de Janeiro, three Russian quotas went to Azerbaijan.

In Azerbaijan, investigators have completed the preliminary investigation into the case against activist Giyas Ibragimov, accused of drug trafficking on a large scale. The case has been sent to the court. The defence intends to file a motion for termination of the criminal proceedings.

The authorities of Poland will not grant asylum to migrants from Chechnya, since there is no war in this Russian region. This has been reported today by Mariusz Błaszczak, Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland. He has made such a statement after on August 29, more than 150 Russian citizens from Chechnya gathered at the Belarusian-Polish border and demanded from Poland to grant them asylum.

On August 30, the Rostov Regional Court dismissed the complaint filed by the defence of Valentina Cherevatenko. Thus, the Court has confirmed the legality of the decision to institute criminal proceedings against the leader of the "Women of Don". The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" treats the prosecution of Valentina Cherevatenko, the leader of the organization "Women of Don", as politically motivated.

Movsum Samedov, the leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan, who is serving a prison sentence, goes on hunger strike in protest against the amendments to the Azerbaijani Constitution, submitted to referendum to be held on September 26.

Law enforcers have defused an improvised explosive device (IED), found in the house of Gasan Abdulaev, the leader of the "Southern" grouping of militants, who was killed in June. This has been announced today by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, in Rostov-on-Don, the North-Caucasian District Military Court has found Rashid Evloev, a native of North Ossetia, guilty of being trained in a camp of militants in Syria.

After the Dagestani leader had promised to clarify the information with the Gasanguseinov brothers' murder, residents of the Shamil District of Dagestan doubted that a serious investigation into the incident would be carried out.

Sergey Mironov, a Russian citizen, who was not arrested by court in Armenia at the request of the US, took off from Yerevan to Moscow. This has been reported today by the Sergey Mironov's advocate.

The filmmakers hope to attract media attention to the re-trial in the Mardiros Demerchyan's case, as well as to the bad situation in which his family members found themselves after the builder had complained about torture. This was reported by a member of the "Public Verdict".

On the eve of the election of the Chechen leader, the authorities force their critics to silence. This was stated in a report released by the human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW). Human rights defenders doubt free and fair election in the republic.

108 migrants are on hunger strike in the specialized institution for temporary detention of foreigners in the Sochi settlement of Vardane, said Semyon Simonov, the spokesman for the "Southern Human Rights Centre".

In the course of presenting his report "Criminal Russia Party", an oppositionist Ilya Yashin stated his readiness to present documents to the court confirming links of the ruling party with criminals.