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From August 11 to September 7, the Department of Property Relations of the Administration of Sochi is accepting applications for the auction of selling 'Olympic' residential houses with land plots. Sochi residents in need of new housing believe that the houses intended for resettlement should not be auctioned at high prices.

The Volgograd inter-district environmental prosecutor's office has sent a statement of claim to the court, which obliges the Volgograd Mayoralty to organize collection and disposal of liquid domestic wastes. The office has documented numerous facts of unauthorized discharge of faecal-household sewage into the city drainage system.

The restrictions on electricity supplies to consumers in the mountainous regions of Dagestan will be in force until September 23, said the spokesman of the "Dagestani Grid Company". Earlier, they planned that restrictions would last until September 21, 2015.

On August 23-29, Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line of the troops for about 950 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

A Russian Maria Kuchina, a native of the city of Prokhladny, has won the gold medal in high jump at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

As stated by Andrei Bocharov, the head of the Volgograd Region, a polygraph should be used to examine the employees of the Mayoralty of Volgograd, who sanctioned to commission the high-rise building in Eighth Air Force Army Street. The Governor also spoke about "criminalization of Volgograd housing and utilities sector."

As stated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 130 times during the last 24 hours.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the Leninsky District of Makhachkala after the attack on policemen in Novy Khushet, has been cancelled.

The number of on duty servicemen in Grozny has been increased after the murder of Musa Ayubov, an officer of the battalion "Sever" (North), and his wife Zulay; they stop drivers and inspect their cars, townspeople report.

Two suspected militants were killed by power agents in a shootout that broke out in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan at night on August 29.

Senior Lieutenant Arthur Vardgesyan has treated his slap on the elderly demonstrator Akop Nazaryan as a mistake and apologized to the public.

The initiative group "No to robbery!" is preparing to resume acts of disobedience with the demand to cancel the decision to increase the electricity tariff. According to activists, the authorities failed with their promise to subsidize the difference with the new electricity tariff.

Investigating bodies have opened a criminal case against the head of a farm and his son, who are suspected of kidnapping their employee and his minor children.

So far, the assets and businesses of Said Amirov remain under the control of his supporters, said the experts asked by the "Caucasian Knot". According to their opinion, the criminal prosecution and the life sentence were certainly a blow to Amirov's empire, but did not destroy it completely.

Power agents have taken out from a hideout found in the village of Zalukokoazhe a pistol, cartridges and grenades, which had allegedly belonged to a militant killed in 2013.

The detention of Akhmed Akhmedov, a builder from Novy Khushet, may be associated with an attack on an OMON (riot police) employee, during which two persons were killed, said his wife. The woman has turned to rights defenders asking to provide her with an advocate.

Idris Ayubov, detained on suspicion of killing in Grozny his uncle – a deputy commander of the battalion "Sever" and his wife, became a figurant in the criminal case of murdering two people and theft of firearm.

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.