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The beating of rights defender Ilgar Nasibov was beaten as a result of a domestic conflict, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan. The suspect, according to the MIA, have been detained.

On Saturday, Chechnya celebrates the 63rd anniversary of the birth of Akhmat-Hadji Kadyrov, the former Chechen leader. The city of Grozny enhances security measures in connection with the celebrations.

In Nakhichevan, policemen have detained a local resident on suspicion of beating human rights defender Ilgar Nasibov, stated Malakhat Nasibova, the wife of the beaten activist, with reference to a source in the local police.

As reported by Elza Chanba, spokeswoman for the republic's parliament, the Abkhazian presidential candidates have signed an agreement on reforms in the political and socioeconomic spheres and on measures to reach the national unity.

In Yerevan, the trial court of general jurisdiction of the administrative districts of Kentron-Nork-Marash has started listening to the prosecutors in the case against Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, and other participants of the action of November 5, 2013.

To resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, no peacekeeping forces are needed, stated Movses Akopyan, the Defence Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, at the meeting with journalists held in Stepanakert on August 19.

In North Ossetia, a grenade was thrown to the yard of the house belonging to the deputy chief of the village police station, stated a source from the law enforcement bodies.

On August 22, after the end of Friday prayer at one of the mosques in Derbent, law enforcers detained 40-60 mosque-goers, eyewitnesses of the incident report. Two buses took the detainees to the Derbent GOVD (City Interior Division).

During the first TV debates held in Abkhazia and attended by all presidential candidates, participants have failed to raise questions of interest for voters, believes Inal Khashig, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chegemskaya Pravda".

Malina (Amina) Sadakhanova, a resident of Grozny, who study Arabic and teaches religion in one of the Chechen medreses, had been forcibly kept by law enforcers during three days, sources in Chechnya report. According to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the young woman has been severely beaten.

On Friday, in Sukhumi, a car belonging to Izida Chaniya, an editor of the newspaper "Nuzhnaya Gazeta" (Needed Newspaper), has been shelled by unidentified persons, reported Raul Lolua, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has expressed her concern over the attacks on Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist and a human rights defender, in Nakhichevan. She called on the Azerbaijani authorities to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the incident.

On Friday, the state of emergency has been lifted in the aul (village) of Novokuvinsk of the Adyge-Khabl District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), and gas supply has been restored, stated Mukhadin Darmilov, the head of the Department for Civil Defence and Emergencies of the district administration.

The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported on preliminary identification of two suspected militants killed during the special operation in Khasavyurt.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) chaired by Judge Aflatun Gasymov has held the preliminary court hearing on the complaint lodged by Anar Mamedli, the head of the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training (CEMDT), and activists Bashir Suleimanly and Elnur Mamedov.

On August 21, in parts of the Grozny city territory, Chechen law enforcers checked passport regime, stated local residents. The law enforcement bodies called the checks as "preventive actions" on the eve of large-scale celebrations.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has completed the questioning of defence witnesses in the case against Timur Tangiev. At the last moment, many witnesses refused to go to court to testify.

Raul Khadjimba and Aslan Bzhaniya, Abkhaz presidential candidates, use all possible information platforms for their election campaign. According to their election offices, the presidential candidates meet no obstacles during campaigning.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has scheduled for September 24 the consideration of the cassation appeal filed by the Prosecutor's Office against the sentence of Evgeny Vitishko, a staff member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

The Orichi District Court of the Kirov Region of Russia has begun studying the written evidence in the criminal case about an attempt of a terror act at the "Maradykovsky" chemical weapons factory, in which two natives of Dagestan are the figurants.