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Power agents are searching for militants in connection with the inquiry into the murder of Magomed Khidirov, the Imam of the mosque of the village of Novy Kurush.

The escalation in the conflict zone takes place against the background of intensified Baku-Moscow contacts, Azerbaijani experts have noted. In recent years, Azerbaijan has multiplied its military power, said Uzeyir Jafarov, the head of the NGO "Military Journalists".

Armenian media organizations have called the Special Investigating Service not to delay the investigation into the use of excessive force against demonstrators on June 23 in Yerevan. According to their version, out of 24 suffered journalists six have not been questioned yet.

The proceeds from the charity concert "In Memory of the Dead", the tickets for which were from 300 to 1500 roubles, will be given to families of killed journalists. The organizers of the event paid tribute to the Centre for Protection of Media Rights, the head of which this year was awarded the "Kamerton" (Tuning Fork) Award named after Anna Politkovskaya.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow has extended until November 15 the custody of Saida Khalikova, a student from Astrakhan, accused of sponsoring the "Islamic State" (IS).

Legal representatives of Ramzan Kadyrov have challenged the decision of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court, which had treated the Islamic book with ayats (verses) from Koran as extremist. The lawyers find the above decision as contradicting to the Russian legislation.

The Volgograd Regional Court has granted the appeal lodged by advocates of Nikolai Parshin, an MP of the Russian State Duma, against the decision of the Tsentralny District Court to put him in custody.

Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the Dagestani branch of the Russian Pension Fund, was arrested in absentia for two months by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. His defence asked to leave him at large on bail of 5 million roubles; however, the court ruled in favour of investigators.

According to investigators, the defendants are involved in undermining the car of Magomedsaid Gadjiev, Chief of the Inter-District FSB Department for the Karabudakhkent District, who later died in hospital. They are also accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF).

The campaign for the election of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban, by the name of the main river) is passive, while propaganda materials of candidates for deputies are spread uncontrollably and in huge volumes, causing irritation, said local residents.

On September 11, Gyumri, Vanadzor, Spitak, Ashtarak, and Yerevan will hold protest actions against the increase in electricity tariff. However, the Yerevan Mayor's Office crossed out Bagramyan Avenue from the planned route of the rally-march. This was reported by Maxim Sargsyan, a member of the initiative group "No to robbery!"

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has called unacceptable the insulting statements made by the Chechen leader with regard to the judge and the public prosecutor in connection with the fact that the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court had banned the book based on quotations from the Koran.

Magomed Khidirov, Imam of the Sufi mosque in the village of Novy Kurush, who was shot dead in the morning of September 9, had entered no conflicts with followers of the Salafi trend of Islam. This was reported by local residents.

In Sochi, a unit of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has saved a 77-year-old woman, who had lain unconscious in her apartment for a few days. There are many cases in the city, when elderly people faint in their closed apartments, but rescuers not always manage to help them, while the city has no residential home for the elderly, where such lonely people could be placed, said a source from the social protection service.

The Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society Institutions Development and Human Rights will consider a draft appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with the request to allow the reception of Syrian Circassians. According to Maxim Shevchenko, the initiator of the appeal, at present, refugees face challenges when trying to resettle, including challenges arising from the lack of quotas.

At the trial in the case of the murder of journalist Malik Akhmedilov, the court has questioned Ali Kamalov, Chairman of the Union of Journalists of Dagestan, as a prosecution witness. The next court session is scheduled for September 11.

Valid Motsaev, the successor to the killed leader of the militant grouping in Khasavyurt, tries to earn credibility by massacres, the law enforcement agencies believe.

The lawyer Elena Denisenko was taken off the bus by employees of the GIBDD (traffic police) at the checkpoint located on the administrative border of Dagestan and Stavropol Territory.

As reported by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, a complaint has been prepared against the decision of the court of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk to treat as extremist the book "Appeal (Dua) to Allah, Its Value and Place in Islam".

Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the Dagestani branch of the Russian Pension Fund, has been put on the international wanted list. The court has ruled in absentia to place him in custody, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.