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Until now, the authorities of the Volgograd Region have failed to allocate funds for pumping water into the lake of the rural settlement of Kletskoe, where 6000 residents are in a zone of ecological disaster. Appeals to the Governor are of no help, while the lake itself, wells and boreholes continue drying out.

Outages of water supply in the village of Gizel, Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, are constant. A gravity water conduit passes near the village; however, its water bypasses the village and is directed to other swelling settlements.

By the outcomes of the comprehensive forensic examination, medical experts suggest that Boris Nemtsov was shot dead from two different pistols, the "Kommersant" writes today.

The decision of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to recognize the actions of power agents from the Stavropol Territory during their operation in Grozny, which ended in murder of suspect Djambulat Dadaev, as legitimate had been reversed by the District Court in Grozny.

The defence of Rustam Gabibov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of a murder, has complained about the non-admission to the client, who, according to advocates, had been taken from SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of Nalchik away to some unknown place.

Supporters of Imam Khamzat Chumakov held solo pickets in Ingushetia and Dagestan to express their support to him and oppose publications, aimed at incitement of hatred against Muslims.

Turkey has declared wanted the leader of the Istanbul cell of the "Islamic State" (IS) (earlier – ISIL), nicknamed as "One-legged Akhmed". This person could get to Turkey from Syria, a source from the Caucasian Diaspora in Turkey told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.

The actions of Dagestani policemen, who posted on the Internet a record of the interrogation of the Chechen power agent, who, according to their version, disgorged himself onto a beach in Makhachkala, were provoked by the conflict relations among law enforcement bodies of Chechnya and Dagestan, observers say.

Today, the police have released the journalist Orkhan Rustamzade, who was detained earlier today in front of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, after verbally warning him.

Power agents have identified the man killed in the outskirt of Nalchik, who, according to their version, rendered armed resistance, when they tried to detain him. According to a law enforcement source, he had been sued for being a militant, and was engaged in recruiting people for the war for the "Islamic State" (IS).

Anzor Gubashev, a figurant in Boris Nemtsov's murder case, intends to reject his earlier confessions; and in this context his advocate Musa Khadisov has turned to investigators with a request for a repeated interrogation of his client.

In Baku, policemen have detained a journalist Orkhan Rustamzade and brought him to the Nasimi District Police Office. According to eyewitnesses, he was filming at the courthouse, where the trial of journalist Khadija Ismayilova is on.

In Baku, increased security measures are applied near the Court of Grave Crimes, where they are trying the journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Her relatives, civil society activists and reporters were no admitted into the courtroom.

On August 7 and 8, the checkpoints on the border with Georgia will be closed in connection with the republic's mourning days, said the KGB (Committee for State Security) of South Ossetia.

Law enforcement bodies of the Stavropol Territory conduct searches of houses of local residents, who profess the Slavonic pagan cult, and confiscate the banned literature and audio and video records. The Territorial Department of the Russian MIA has confirmed detention of five persons.

Anzor Gubashev, a figurant in the murder case of politician Boris Nemtsov, has written an application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the violence applied to him by law enforcers, the "Kommersant" reports.

In Nalchik, a member of the armed underground, who opened fire on policemen, was killed, local law enforcement bodies have reported.

An appeal asking to revoke the ruling to reject clemency of the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko has been lodged to the court.

According to preliminary data, the sum of damage caused on August 3 in a special operation in Nalchik to apartments in the "Aleksandrovka" micro-district amounts to about 900,000 roubles. This was announced by Akhmat Ulbashev, the spokesman of the Chief Directorate for Emergency Situations of Nalchik.

Over the past 24 hours, the Stavropol Territory saw at least 19 searches in the houses of local residents, who stick to the Slavonic pagan worship, as reported by activists of the "Stavropol Veche of Russia".