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The roundtable held in Makhachkala on "Viewpoints of Russian Muslims on Reasons of Palestinian-Israeli Confrontation and Settlement Prospects" was the last public event, where Timur Kuashev, a journalist and human rights activist, was speaking.

On Saturday, in Azerbaijan, Rasul Djafarov (Jafarov), a coordinator of the campaign "Art for Democracy", has been detained. He is taken into custody for three months, and he was accused of economic crimes.

On Saturday, the burial of journalist and social activist Timur Kuashev took place in the Nalchik residential district of Volny Aul. The journalist's colleagues believe Timur Kuashev was murdered for his civic activity.

In the Lenin District of Grozny, policemen detained a 30-year-old native of the village of Bamut of the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya on suspicion of aiding and abetting an illegal armed formation (IAF). This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The concept of the new Criminal Code of Armenia provides for a number of major changes; and the "personality factor" has been brought into the forefront, said the advocates Ara Zakaryan and Ovannes Kocharyan, who welcomed the reform of the Code.

The administration of the head and the government of Chechnya has refuted the information of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine about sending Chechen power agents to participate in the conflict in the East of Ukraine. At the same time, residents of Chechnya report transportation of troops outside the republic's territory.

The decision to place Evgeny Vitishko in a punishment cell is the first step to transfer the ecologist from the settlement colony to a common-security penal colony. This opinion was expressed by Vladimir Kimaev, a member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

A torchlight march against increase of electricity tariffs was held in Yerevan, organized by the respective initiative group and attended by several dozen people.

On August 1, relatives of Musa Magomedov, a detained resident of the village of Nechaevka of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, held a spontaneous gathering, demanding to release the detainee.

Two persons, who on August 1 were killed during a shootout in the Terek District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), were involved in the armed underground. This was announced by officials from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On August 1, journalist Timur Kuashev was found dead in a suburb of Nalchik. Earlier, he said that he had received threats from law enforcers and Internet users. He believed that the threats were related to his professional activities.

The Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the complaint of Faraj Kerimli, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, lodged against his three-month-long arrest on charges of illegal possession and sale of drugs. This was announced by his advocate Nemat Kerimli.

The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) of Azerbaijan has called on the country's international partners to impose sanctions on those country's officials, who take part in harassing NGOs and civil society activists of Azerbaijan.

The Circassian activist and journalist Timur Kuashev who disappeared on July 31, was found dead on Friday, August 1, in a suburb of Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

According to unofficial data, on July 31, in a shootout that burst out in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict zone, eight soldiers of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan were killed. Another soldier died on Friday from wounds.

The population of Russia is optimistic about the situation in Northern Caucasus, the polling data of the "Levada-Centre" indicates. Experts attribute this to the events in Ukraine. According to Lev Gudkov, the director of the "Levada-Centre", information about Northern Caucasus remains in the background and does not worry people.

Relatives of Almaz Abdulnasyrov, a resident of the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, who, according to the official version, was killed in a shootout with power agents in the Novoselitsa District, have not yet received any response from the prosecutor's office to their demand to check the legality of policemen's actions.

On July 31, Azerbaijani investigators conducted a search of the flat of Rasul Djafarov, a human rights activist and coordinator of the campaign "The Art for Democracy".

The Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who is serving his sentence in a colony-settlement in the Tambov Region, was placed into the punishment cell (dungeon), said the press service of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

As proclaimed by a number of international human rights organizations and Azerbaijani oppositionists, Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Azerbaijani Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD) is one of the independent voices of the country, where authorities try to silence her through arrest and prosecution.