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Makhachkala hosts a press conference on the fabrication of criminal cases against Salafis. The press conference is also attended by relatives and lawyers of the persons detained in the case of the murder of district police inspector Shamil Abdurakhmanov.

The information about the resignation of Khizri Shikhsaidov, the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, is still premature; however, it can happen soon. In that case, the influential Kumyk clans are likely to run for the post of the Speaker. This opinion has been expressed by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Law enforcers do not rule out that a grouping of suspected militants, who on August 16 initiated a shootout with the Ingush law enforcers near the Chechen border, could go into the direction of the Chechen village of Bamut.

This morning, the Deputy Imam of the village of Irgakly in the Stavropol Territory has been found dead. His body bears signs of numerous gunshot wounds. This has been reported by a relative of the dead religious leader.

Despite the cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, the access control is valid in the villages of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, and local residents report on a large number of law enforcers. Some restrictions have not yet been lifted in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the police report.

In Baku, at the trial in the case against journalist Khadija Ismayilova, the court has agreed to summon for questioning the tax inspectors, who signed the act of tax violations allegedly committed by the defendant. The other defence's motions were dismissed by the court.

On the border of the Derbent and Tabasaran Districts in Dagestan, unidentified persons have initiated a shootout with policemen. As a result, three persons were killed. No law enforcer suffered.

Residents of Nalchik, who tried to leave for Syria, were detained at the Russian-Georgian border and returned to their parents, said a law enforcement source.

A protest action was held today in Yerevan by workers of the "Nairit" Chemical Factory, who demanded from the authorities to explain how they would receive compensations of their legal costs and assess whether it was legitimate to demand from workers to refuse to receive the accrued fines and penalties.

The court in Chechnya has violated the right of Asrudi Musaev, a resident of Chechnya, convicted for complicity in the fraud with maternal capital, to a fair trial, his defence asserts. A complaint about the verdict has been sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has rejected the petition of one of the defendants to re-interrogate witnesses.

The material, in which the hero swears allegiance to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, was detected in four pages on the Internet, said the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

A petition that urges Russian authorities and State Duma MPs and Senators of the Federation Council from the KBR "to stop illegal killings and persecutions" of Caucasian residents during counterterrorist operations (CTOs) has collected 887 signatures. The authors of the petition call "to return Northern Caucasus into the legal field."

The guilt of the film director Oleg Sentsov and the ecologist Alexander Kolchenko from Ukraine in the case on arsons in the Crimea has been completely proved, said the prosecutor during the debates at the North-Caucasian District Military Court. He asked to sentence Sentsov to 23, and Kolchenko to 12 years in a high security colony.

This year, not a single family of temporary migrants or refugees has received a new housing in Tskhinvali. Now, there is no vacant housing for them; while the Committee on Migration Policy of South Ossetia has no funds to build a settlement for refugees.

The CTO regime, introduced in the Suleiman Stalsky, Tabasaran and Khiv Districts of Dagestan, covers 2000 square kilometres, inhabited by 129,000 people. This year, these three districts have already caught the attention of power agents in the context of the shootout near the village of Akka and detection of bomb-making laboratories in the village of Orta-Stal.

Khadija Ismayilova, a journalist of Radio Liberty in Azerbaijan has attempted to disqualify the entire court that is considering her case; however, her motion was left unconsidered. Ismayilova treats the charges against her as absurd. In the course of the session, the court has rejected all the petitions, put forward by her and her defence.

In the period from August 11 to August 18, activists of the civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" gathered over 1500 signatures to the demand for resignation of the members of the Commission for Regulating Public Services (CRPS). Two weeks since the start of the campaign, the total number of signatories made more than 5000.

Zhabrail Shugushev, a villager of Dugulubgei (Dygulybgey), whose whereabouts his relatives tried to establish since August 15, was arrested by the court until 14 September.

Today, the legal regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO), introduced in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, was cancelled.