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Doctors could not save the Azerbaijani freelance journalist Rasim Aliyev, who was hospitalized after being beaten up. This morning, he died in the Clinical Centre of Baku.

Boris Stikhin, an activist of the International Union of Anarchists, has been detained during an anti-war solo picket in Heroes Alley in Volgograd.

Residents of Georgia, its President and the Prime Minister paid tribute to those killed during the conflict in August 2008, including the perished servicemen. The country needs to restore its territorial integrity through negotiations, said the Georgian leadership.

Today, during a shootout in 2nd Taman Division Street in Nalchik, power agents killed Inoyat Tabukhov, suspected of the murders of Rector Boris Zherukov, TV journalist Kazbek Gekkiev and investigator Alim Vorokov, committed in 2012.

The mourning rally held in central Tskhinvali brought together some 700 people. As declared by President of South Ossetia, in 2016 the republic will start erecting a memorial complex.

On August 7, Arbi Dikaev was sentenced by the Grozny District Court of Chechnya, a source from the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The young man was accused of preparing to participate in an armed formation in the territory of Syria.

Until now, the authorities of the Volgograd Region have failed to allocate funds for pumping water into the lake of the rural settlement of Kletskoe, where 6000 residents are in a zone of ecological disaster. Appeals to the Governor are of no help, while the lake itself, wells and boreholes continue drying out.

Outages of water supply in the village of Gizel, Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, are constant. A gravity water conduit passes near the village; however, its water bypasses the village and is directed to other swelling settlements.

By the outcomes of the comprehensive forensic examination, medical experts suggest that Boris Nemtsov was shot dead from two different pistols, the "Kommersant" writes today.

The decision of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to recognize the actions of power agents from the Stavropol Territory during their operation in Grozny, which ended in murder of suspect Djambulat Dadaev, as legitimate had been reversed by the District Court in Grozny.

The defence of Rustam Gabibov, a resident of Dagestan, accused of a murder, has complained about the non-admission to the client, who, according to advocates, had been taken from SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 of Nalchik away to some unknown place.

Supporters of Imam Khamzat Chumakov held solo pickets in Ingushetia and Dagestan to express their support to him and oppose publications, aimed at incitement of hatred against Muslims.

Turkey has declared wanted the leader of the Istanbul cell of the "Islamic State" (IS) (earlier – ISIL), nicknamed as "One-legged Akhmed". This person could get to Turkey from Syria, a source from the Caucasian Diaspora in Turkey told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on condition of anonymity.

The actions of Dagestani policemen, who posted on the Internet a record of the interrogation of the Chechen power agent, who, according to their version, disgorged himself onto a beach in Makhachkala, were provoked by the conflict relations among law enforcement bodies of Chechnya and Dagestan, observers say.

Today, the police have released the journalist Orkhan Rustamzade, who was detained earlier today in front of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, after verbally warning him.

Power agents have identified the man killed in the outskirt of Nalchik, who, according to their version, rendered armed resistance, when they tried to detain him. According to a law enforcement source, he had been sued for being a militant, and was engaged in recruiting people for the war for the "Islamic State" (IS).

Anzor Gubashev, a figurant in Boris Nemtsov's murder case, intends to reject his earlier confessions; and in this context his advocate Musa Khadisov has turned to investigators with a request for a repeated interrogation of his client.

In Baku, policemen have detained a journalist Orkhan Rustamzade and brought him to the Nasimi District Police Office. According to eyewitnesses, he was filming at the courthouse, where the trial of journalist Khadija Ismayilova is on.

In Baku, increased security measures are applied near the Court of Grave Crimes, where they are trying the journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Her relatives, civil society activists and reporters were no admitted into the courtroom.

On August 7 and 8, the checkpoints on the border with Georgia will be closed in connection with the republic's mourning days, said the KGB (Committee for State Security) of South Ossetia.