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The Mayoralty (city administration) of Sochi has put on auction 51 houses built near the Olympic Park in the ImeretiValley. Originally, those houses were designed for resettlement of people who lost their homes because of the need for construction of the Olympic facilities.

Today, a shootout has taken place between suspected members of an illegal armed formation (IAF) and law enforcers in the forest near the village of Gimry of the Untsukul District of Dagestan. Two suspected militants were killed.

In Gyumri, activists have finished a two-day non-stop picket in support of Colonel Volodya Avetisyan, a Karabakh War veteran. The activists voice their intention to continue the protest actions.

On August 15, Zhabrail Shugushev, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei (Dygulybgei) of the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, was detained in his house after the search and taken away to some unknown destination. By the end of the day, the relatives were unable to establish the Zhabrail's whereabouts.

Members of the "Communists of Russia" Party have sent a complaint to the Public General Prosecutor, in which they reported on the detention of deputies and deputy candidates by the Sochi police.

The society of Armenia has attached no special importance to the sentence pronounced by the Russian military court against Permyakov in the case of desertion. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by political analyst Ruben Megrabyan, an expert of the Armenian Centre for Political and International Studies.

Today, 15 people gathered to picket in support of political prisoners in Rostov-on-Don, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

After receiving an anonymous message, a search of an explosive device in the building of the US Embassy in Yerevan was undertaken by a rescue team, an operative group of the national centre for crisis management and fire-fighters. Later, it turned out that the message was false.

The liquidation decision has to do with the absence of budget funds for the development of the TV channel, said Soslan Dzansolov, the chairman of the Republic's Committee for Information Technologies and Mass Communications.

Members of the Armenian opposition "Heritage" Party fought in Yerevan with activists of the public movement "Civil Consciousness". After the fight, seven members of the movement were hospitalized, said Narek Samsonyan, the leader of the movement.

Mamuka Samkharadze, a citizen of Georgia, who was detained on the border with South Ossetia, has been released from the insulation facility of Tskhinvali.

Director of the Institute of Strategic Development of Russia Andranik Nikogosyan should be held criminally liable for his statement that Armenia should join the "imperial" Russia, believe activists of the Armenian "Union of Young Fatherland Defenders".

The defence of Andrei Vinogradov, the head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, has filed a complaint against the decision of the court to arrest him.

Khatira Imanova, who committed self-immolation in the marketplace in Baku, died before the arrival of doctors. Her death is investigated by law enforcement bodies under the article on driving to suicide.

In the case of David Khachatryan, who was convicted for the murder of his fellow soldier Lux Stepanyan, the principle of a fair trial was violated, said his advocate. In this regard, a complaint on the case was filed to the ECtHR.

A rally of residents of Pasechnaya Street was held in Sochi, which, according to organizers, brought together about 50 people. They demanded to stop the construction of multi-storey buildings, threatening their houses, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Out of the remaining influential militants in Northern Caucasus, Zalim Shebzukhov, the head of the Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay, and Aslambek Vadalov, the head of the Vilayat Nokhchicho (Ichkeria), stand out, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They believe that Vadalov has much higher chances to lead the "Imarat Kavkaz" (IK), recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

Reinforced posts of policemen and special fighters are deployed every night in Grozny after rumours appeared about concentration of militants on the Chechen border, local residents report. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) explains the reinforcement by the fight against infringers of traffic rules and preparations for holidays.

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has found extremism in the video clip posted on the Internet and calling to join the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization by the court.

The explosion of an unidentified bomb caused no injuries and no damage, said the spokesman for the regional department of the MIA.