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Members of the neo-pagan community of Slavs-Ynglings of the Stavropol Territory, which was recognized by the court as an extremist community, complain about their blocked bank cards and penetration of unidentified persons into their households. In their opinion, these facts may indicate employees of law enforcement bodies.

On August 26-27, in the Argun District of Chechnya, 598 customers, who had huge debts for electricity bills, were cut off the grid. Their total debt amounted to more than 5 million roubles, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Housing and Utilities of Chechnya. Locals treat such measures as "excessive."

The human rights organization "Committee to Prevent Torture" (CPT) has addressed the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to check the statement of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, one of the defendants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case, that he had been tortured.

Shamsudin Tsakaev, the advocate of Zaur Dadaev, has appealed against the court's decision to extend until November 28 the arrest of his client, who is considered by investigators to be the main figurant in Boris Nemtsov's murder case.

Local politicians treat the opening of the NATO training centre near Tbilisi as the next step on Georgia's membership in the Alliance. They see a negative aspect of this event in a displeased reaction of Moscow. The Georgian leadership is sure that the NATO training centre will contribute to stability in the region.

On suspicion of murdering Musa Ayubov, a deputy commander of the battalion of the Russian MIA "Sever", and his wife, Ayubov's nephew is detained in Grozny.

In Grozny, an armed attack was committed on the deputy commander of the battalion "Sever" (North) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and his wife. According to a local law enforcement source, the suspect of committing the crime is detained.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has found legal the investigators' refusal to institute criminal case of torture of Zaur Dadaev, the main defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder. At the court session, Zaur Dadaev himself requested the Court to re-interrogate him.

Three residents of the Krasnodar Territory spend the second day on a hunger strike in an attempt to draw attention of the law enforcement bodies to their problems. One of the protestors complained about unjustified prosecution of her son, and two other hunger-strikers complained of fraud, as a result of which their son lost his housing.

Today, Rashid Temrezov, the leader of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has granted the resignation request filed by Murat Kardanov, the Prime Minister of the KChR; Ruslan Kazanokov, the head of the Federal Tax Service Department for the KChR, was appointed the Acting Prime Minister.

The photo report about the meeting of Sergey Obukhov, an MP of the Russian State Duma from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), with residents of Krasnodar contained signs of falsification: additional voters were added to some of the photos, said the edition named "Meduza". Obukhov himself called it an "unsuccessful collage."

The investigator Arsen Gadjibekov was killed by a gang under the order of Said Amirov, because he was investigating a case of abuses committed by employees of the administration of Makhachkala, said Vladimir Markin, the head of the department for media relations of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

A case of participation in a terrorist organization has been initiated against three natives of Northern Caucasus, detained in the Krasnodar Territory. According to investigators, they planned to go to Syria and join fighters of the "Islamic State".

Chechnya has asked the Kremlin to write off its 16.23-billion rouble debt for electricity and gas, which accrued for the period from 1999 to 2009, when the republic was under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime. There is no response from Moscow yet. Natalia Zubarevich, an Associate Professor at the Supreme School of Economics, believes that the absence of republic's budgetary income growth is the reason for the above request.

In Rostov-on-Don, the court began reading out the verdict in the case of ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov. He was sentenced to life imprisonment; his nephew Yusup Djaparov – to 18 years in a high-security colony.

The Magaramkent District was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in connection with search for militants, said the spokesman of the operative headquarters of Dagestan.

Zhanna Nemtsova, the daughter of the politician Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered six months ago, has asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to establish the fact of violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), since the customer murder has not been found yet.

The minimum subsistence level set up by the Government of the Chechen Republic for the second quarter of 2015 is by more than 1300 roubles higher than in 2014, said the spokesman of the republic's Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Development.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has called on to release Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko sentenced on charges of terrorism or to hold a fair civil trial.

The preliminary investigation and trial in the case against Said Amirov, whose sentence is to be pronounced today, have violated the rights of the defendants, state their advocates. The court should not ignore the defendants' complaints about testimonies given under torture, says human rights activist Igor Kalyapin.