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During the week of August 10-16, 2015, at least seven persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, six persons were killed, and one person was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In his initial testimony recorded by a video camera, Zaur Dadaev, the main defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, has mentioned the advance paid for the death of the politician. This has been reported today by the "Rosbalt" with reference to a source in the law enforcement bodies. The defence of Zaur Dadaev voiced scepticism about the information.

This morning, a policeman was shelled in the village of Novy Khushet of the Lenin District of Makhachkala. He died from the injuries he got.

Conviction passed in Baku to rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus; special operation in Dagestan, where the leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz" was killed; voluntary resignation of Imam Yaraliev from the post of Derbent Mayor; trial in Gyumri of Valery Permyakov, a soldier Russian military base, for desertion and theft of weapons; major forest fire near Gelendjik; start of trying Krasnodar deputy Zirinov by jury in Rostov-on-Don, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 10-16, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

This year, only Chechnya and Ingushetia out of the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have fully used their quotas for the Hajj to Mecca. Other regions, as well as Adygea and the KrasnodarTerritory, see a decline in demand for the Hajj pilgrimage.

According to the unofficial information, one of the persons killed near the village of Gimry in Dagestan has been identified as 30-year-old Gadji Abdullaev, the Amir of the mountainous sector of militants, well-known throughout the armed underground as Abu Dudjana.

The leaders of Derbent face the task to restore order in the utilities sector. To succeed in the task, the new Mayor should attract a team of professionals and mobilize city residents. This opinion has been expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The investigator in charge of Boris Nemtsov murder case has requested the materials of criminal case of the disappearance of Chechen resident Askhab Murtazaliev. This has been reported today by the "Kommersant".

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".