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Residents of Ingushetia complain about low wages and violations at the implementation of housing programmes; and the republic's SIZOs (pre-trial prisons) have serious problems with custody conditions. This was stated by the members of the delegation of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) at the end of their travel to Ingushetia.

Alexander Valov, the editor-in-chief of the "BlogSochi", and a group of American television journalists have been detained by FSB agents in the settlement of Vesyoloe-Psou. They are accused of breaking the border regime.

Law enforcement bodies of Ingushetia cannot efficiently investigate the March attack on rights defenders, because of the Chechen trace in the case, said Igor Kalyapin, a rights defender, at a meeting of HRC members with Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

Residents of the houses, destroyed by heavy rains and a landslide in the villages of Nizhni Djengutai and Kadar had to move to their relatives and neighbours, said a source from the administration of the Buynaksk District of Dagestan.

Akhmad Shikhmagomedov, the owner of the Muslim "Ummah" store, who disappeared in Makhachkala, has been brought to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Kaspiysk, said his relatives and a police source. So far, there is no official confirmation of this information.

The detention term of five residents of the Volgograd Region, suspected of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS), which is banned in Russia by court, and of preparing a terror act, has been extended today until September 5.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has sent to the court a criminal case against a local resident, accused of illegal possession of ammunition, as well as of rendering financial help to his fellow countryman, who has been convicted for preparing to take part in the warfare in Syria for the militants.

Blood feud and conflict over the murder in 2013 of "Gorets" (Highlander) Club Director are considered among the versions of the attack on the athlete Shakhbulat Shamkhalaev, wounded on June 1 in Makhachkala.

The police are looking for two men, who have killed last night a district policeman in the Dagestani village of Ashaga-Stal, said a law enforcement source from Dagestan.

The growing number of migrants from Chechnya, who apply for the refugee status in Germany, has to do with the policies pursued by the Chechen leadership of suppressing the dissent, believes Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the Director of the Project for Russia and Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICG).

The Azeri Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIA) has treated the resolution on the Armenian Genocide adopted by the German Bundestag as biased and accused German MPs of "double standards" at the background of "the German indifference to Armenia's ethnic cleansings in Nagorno-Karabakh."

The wounding of Roland Pliev, an OMON (riot police) fighter, happened inadvertently, said the defendant Marat Bukulov. According to his version, he fired his pistol in order to stop his beating by the victim. Pliev himself has confirmed that had struck a few blows.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has recognized activists Bairam Mamedov and Giyas Ibragimov to be "prisoners of conscience"; they were arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of illegal drug dealing.

This morning, Akhmad Shikhmagomedov, an owner of the Muslim "Ummah" shop, has left his home in Makhachkala, and since then, his whereabouts is unknown. His wife has reported to the police about his possible kidnapping.

Physicians have disconnected Shakhbulat Shamkhalaev from an artificial respirator unit, he regained consciousness. This was reported by Shakhmurad Shamkhalaev, a brother of the athlete. Meanwhile, he has denied the media reports that the athlete had a kidney removed.

At the request of the defence, the Maikop City Court has appointed a handwriting examination of the protocol of interrogation of one of the prosecution witnesses. This was reported by ecologist Valery Brinikh.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to appoint Police Major General Sergey Bachurin the head of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The decree was published on the website of legal information.

The Urvan District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced a local resident to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony for an attempt to leave for Syria to take part in the combat actions on the side of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision concerning the complaint of Azerbaijani human rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus, who complained about being tortured during their arrest. The ECtHR has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay the Yunus spouses 13,000 euros for compensation for moral damage.

The recognition by Berlin of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire will promote the similar processes in other countries. This opinion was voiced by Armenian experts on the eve of the voting in the Bundestag.