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The number of persons detained in the village of Novy Khushet after the assassination of the district police inspector has reached 12 persons, including one woman. Several villagers were detained after ammunition was planted to them, and advocates are not able to meet with their clients. This was announced by participants of the press conference held in Makhachkala.

The Ingush leader has ordered to pay compensation within one week to residents of the village of Dattykh of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, whose houses suffered during the special operation.

During the special operation in the village of Chermen in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, law enforcers have seized guns, a grenade launcher, and a large quantity of ammunition. This was reported by an official from of the operational headquarters of North Ossetia.

In Rostov-on-Don, the court has completed the trial in the case against Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and ecologist Alexander Kolchenko accused of terrorism. Observers believe the court will pronounce the verdict of guilty.

Zamirbek Makhmutov, a 32-year-old Deputy Imam of the village of Irgakly, who has been shot dead today by unidentified attackers, will be buried in the evening at the family cemetery in the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by a relative of the killed Deputy Imam.

Makhachkala hosts a press conference on the fabrication of criminal cases against Salafis. The press conference is also attended by relatives and lawyers of the persons detained in the case of the murder of district police inspector Shamil Abdurakhmanov.

The information about the resignation of Khizri Shikhsaidov, the Speaker of the People's Assembly of Dagestan, is still premature; however, it can happen soon. In that case, the influential Kumyk clans are likely to run for the post of the Speaker. This opinion has been expressed by the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Law enforcers do not rule out that a grouping of suspected militants, who on August 16 initiated a shootout with the Ingush law enforcers near the Chechen border, could go into the direction of the Chechen village of Bamut.

This morning, the Deputy Imam of the village of Irgakly in the Stavropol Territory has been found dead. His body bears signs of numerous gunshot wounds. This has been reported by a relative of the dead religious leader.

Despite the cancellation of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, the access control is valid in the villages of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, and local residents report on a large number of law enforcers. Some restrictions have not yet been lifted in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the police report.

In Baku, at the trial in the case against journalist Khadija Ismayilova, the court has agreed to summon for questioning the tax inspectors, who signed the act of tax violations allegedly committed by the defendant. The other defence's motions were dismissed by the court.

On the border of the Derbent and Tabasaran Districts in Dagestan, unidentified persons have initiated a shootout with policemen. As a result, three persons were killed. No law enforcer suffered.

Residents of Nalchik, who tried to leave for Syria, were detained at the Russian-Georgian border and returned to their parents, said a law enforcement source.

A protest action was held today in Yerevan by workers of the "Nairit" Chemical Factory, who demanded from the authorities to explain how they would receive compensations of their legal costs and assess whether it was legitimate to demand from workers to refuse to receive the accrued fines and penalties.

The court in Chechnya has violated the right of Asrudi Musaev, a resident of Chechnya, convicted for complicity in the fraud with maternal capital, to a fair trial, his defence asserts. A complaint about the verdict has been sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has rejected the petition of one of the defendants to re-interrogate witnesses.

The material, in which the hero swears allegiance to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia, was detected in four pages on the Internet, said the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

A petition that urges Russian authorities and State Duma MPs and Senators of the Federation Council from the KBR "to stop illegal killings and persecutions" of Caucasian residents during counterterrorist operations (CTOs) has collected 887 signatures. The authors of the petition call "to return Northern Caucasus into the legal field."

The guilt of the film director Oleg Sentsov and the ecologist Alexander Kolchenko from Ukraine in the case on arsons in the Crimea has been completely proved, said the prosecutor during the debates at the North-Caucasian District Military Court. He asked to sentence Sentsov to 23, and Kolchenko to 12 years in a high security colony.

This year, not a single family of temporary migrants or refugees has received a new housing in Tskhinvali. Now, there is no vacant housing for them; while the Committee on Migration Policy of South Ossetia has no funds to build a settlement for refugees.