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The decision of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to include the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Chechen Republic in the list of "foreign agents" will be challenged in court. This was announced by Mikail Ezhaev, the leader of the non-commercial organization (NCO).

Today in the afternoon, shooting was heard in the neighourhood of Makhachkala named Novy Khushet, said local residents. According to their story, power agents made house-by-house inspections and checked documents.

Since the end of last week, Azerbaijan faces a shortage of US dollars and euros. The demand for foreign currencies has risen sharply against the background of falling oil prices, a sharp depreciation of Russian rouble and Turkish lira, and the people's anticipation of the new depreciation of national currency increases.

In Kuban, 118 candidates run for the posts of heads of rural and 27 urban communities. 2803 persons have been nominated for candidates to deputies of representative bodies of municipalities and rural communities; and, according to the Election Commission of the Krasnodar Territory, 566 candidates have been nominated to the Krasnodar City Duma.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the special operation in the neighbourhood of Makhachkala named Novy Khushet resulted in the murder of Abdul Kurbanov, the leader of the "Makhachkala" militant grouping, and two other militants; also, and OMON (riot police) fighter was wounded.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has granted the investigators’ petition to extend by three months the custody of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, Shagid Gubashev and Khamzat Bakhaev.

The Moscow Basmanny Court has accepted the request of a figurant in Boris Nemtsov’s murder case to ban any approach of strangers to him in the courthouse.

In Nartkala, teachers of the House of Children's Creativity merged by the local art school are allowed to continue their professional duties in case they sign consent to the reorganization of their House. The teachers treat the actions of the new managers as pressure, and the acting director believes that she only executes the reorganization algorithm.

Systematic cuts of gas supply to Derbent houses occur without warning, the townspeople report.

The 64th birthday of Akhmat Kadyrov, the father of the current Chechen leader, was accompanied by religious and sporting events, solemn assemblies, and a theatrical performance, directed against the departure of young people to the war in Syria.

Continuation of the pleadings and the final speeches of the defendants in the Amirov's case; special operation, assassination of the district police inspector, and attack on OMON fighter in Dagestan; protest actions in Armenia and clashes between protesters and policemen, see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 17-23, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported about four dead and 15 wounded Azerbaijani soldiers. Azerbaijan, in its turn, announced the killing five and wounding eight enemy soldiers.

During the week from August 17 to August 23, 2015, at least 12 people suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, including eight killed and four wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, a district of Makhachkala was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in connection with a search for militants there.

Armenian Ombudsman Karen Andreasyan has called on law enforcement bodies to immediately conduct an objective investigation and bring the policeman who had slapped an elderly protester to responsibility.

During the dispersal of the protest action in the city of Mingachevir, four policemen suffered, says the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan.

Today, Sergey Kaziev, who was convicted of the attack on Nalchik and then died at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), was buried in the cemetery of Nalchik.

Next year, authorities of North Ossetia intend to allocate 324 million roubles of budget funds for the implementation of investment programmes. At the same time, officials admit that the republic’s capacity of co-financing the programmes are limited.

In the shelling of the OMON (riot police) employee in the Dagestani village of Novy Khushet, two persons were killed – his relative, also a policeman, and his 15-year-old son. His father was hospitalized in grave condition.

The powers of the policeman, who gave a slap to an elderly demonstrator, have been suspended for the time of the official investigation.