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In the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at a session, where the case of rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband is considered, the health condition of the latter – Arif Yunus – has sharply worsened; they had to call an ambulance.

Detention of heads of two district of Dagestan and investigators' statement about suspicions against Sagid Murtazaliev, head of republic's branch of RPF; special operations in Ingushetia, which resulted in killing eight persons; end of judicial inquiry into Said Amirov's case, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 27-August 2, 2015, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week from July 27 to August 2, 2015, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least nine human lives. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An event "Year of Inaction" was held in Nalchik in memory of the slain journalist Timur Kuashev bringing together journalists and public figures from the republics of Northern Caucasus and Moscow.

The participants of the rally, organized in Uryupinsk, state violations of their constitutional rights and inaction of the authorities in the context of the planned mining of nickel in the area of the Khopyor River.

The arrest of the head of the Kizlyar District, the detention of the head of the Buynaksk District and searches of houses of Sagid Murtazaliev and Khizri Shikhsaidov have signs of political pressure and connected with the forthcoming election of the Mayor of Makhachkala, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Eight militants were killed today in the course of a special operation conducted near the village of Dattykh, Sunzha District of Ingushetia. The militants were killed "during an armed clashes with the use of artillery," said a police source.

Russian authorities shall eliminate injustice and immediately release the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and ecologist Alexander Kolchenko, said the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

In Azerbaijan, relatives of Emin Milli, the executive director of the online channel MeydanTV, who is abroad, have sent a collective appeal to the country's president, in which they condemn Milli for his critical attitude to the authorities' policies; the director himself believes that his relatives did it under pressure.

In the village of Baranovka, located in the resort city of Sochi, a gathering of citizens was held, who demanded from the LLC "Sochivodokanal" to immediately solve the problem of public drinking water outages.

The French company 'Hermes', engaged in production of fashion clothes, has made a line of scarves "Caucasian Horsemen". To start the line, employees of the company visited Nalchik and studied objects of national culture of Kabardians.

The movement "Arise, Armenia!" has condemned the actions of policemen, who prevent protesters against the increase in electricity tariff from occupying the mosaic stone carpet in the middle of the Republic Square in Yerevan. Activists have called the police to promote the peaceful picket.

The civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" has released a statement, which calls for resignation of the Commission on Regulation of Public Services and nationalization of Closed Joint-Stock Company (CJSC) "Electric Grids of Armenia".

Turkey's militaries have detained a law student from Dagestan in the Turkish province of Hatay, when he was going to cross the Syrian border with his three companions.

Sashik Sultanyan, the head of the public organization "Centre for Interethnic and Intercultural Cooperation", and Rustam Bakoyan, the head of the humanitarian organization "Shams", are holding a three-day hunger strike in front of the Yerevan Office of the United Nations.

Policemen pasted in central Yerevan photos of leaders of the movement "Arise, Armenia!" with inscription "Grant Eaters", activists have complained.

Relatives of Izmailov brothers, who were beaten up at the Beslan Airport, are ready to conclude a truce with the families of the initiators of the brawl, provided all the participants of the incident, including airport security guards, are fairly punished.

Activists of the "Youth Yabloko", who held solo pickets on July 31 in Moscow, believe that the inquiry into the murder of the journalist and rights defender Timur Kuashev has no prospects in Kabardino-Balkaria; it should be transferred to the federal level.

Local civil society activists have assessed the human rights situation in Azerbaijan as the worst in the last 20 years. Activists of the "Committee for Civil Society Protection" (CCSP) have decided to appeal to the country's authorities to take measures to restore the rights of political prisoners, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Employees of the special detention centre of Novocherkassk, where a detainee died, acted professionally, said the members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC). At the same time, as they noted, the ambulance arrived at the centre only 20 minutes after it was called.