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On August 17, the fifth annual North-Caucasian Youth Forum "Mashuk-2014", held in Pyatigorsk during two weeks, was closed. The closing ceremony was held at the evening of August 16.

On August 17, the international human rights organization "Civil Rights Defenders" (CRD) called on for immediate release of Rasul Jafarov, an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender, who celebrated his 30th birthday in custody.

As reported by the lawyer Zulfiya Isagadjieva with reference to the victims, three residents of Buynaksk were beaten up by policemen, after which one of the victims was hospitalized. The Buynaksk GOVD (City Interior Division) denied this information, saying that two men who applied violence to a policeman were brought to them.

On August 14, the Khosta District Court of Sochi found a local resident Oksana Toropova guilty of beating a court marshal and sentenced her to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment and a probation term of three years.

The Deputy Mufti of North Ossetia Rasul Gamzatov was the fourth Muslim leader killed in Northern Caucasus since the start of 2014 and the 40th since 2009, the "Caucasian Knot" has calculated.

In Dagestan, the Akusha District Court has pronounced its decision to arrest Akhmed Nurmagomedov, a local resident, suspected of illegal possession of weapons, for two months, his advocate reports.

During the search conducted in the premises of the Moscow religious Muslim organization "Enlightenment" Educational Foundation, law enforcers planted leaflets and CDs, members of the foundation assert. According to the FSB report, mosque-goers were detained in order to ensure smooth conduct of the search.

Since August 18, the Makhachkala Airport will operate and maintain aircrafts only from 7:30 a.m. till 7:20 p.m., and the rest of the day will be dedicated to repair works. Later, on September 29, the airport will be closed for a month.

In Adygea, at the court hearing in the case against Zarema Khadjirokova, the former Chief Accountant of the Maikop State Technological University, the court has listened to the second public prosecutor, the Assistant Prosecutor of Adygea.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has revealed violations in the investigation into the kidnapping of Bekman Asadulaev, an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), committed on January 14, 2004.

In Vladikavkaz, the art symposium "Alanika" and the Forum of Young Artists of Northern Caucasus "ART CAUCASUS NEXT" has finished with the exhibition of works, most of which were devoted to the interpretation of the culture of the peoples of Northern Caucasus.

Israfil Gadadov, an advocate from the Bar Association "Kavkaz", who represents the interests of Akhmed Nurmagomedov, a resident of the village of Ameterkmakhi, Akusha District of Dagestan, who was detained on August 14 after a search conducted in his house (a pistol was found), managed to meet his client.

In Moscow, a search is over in the office of the "Enlightenment" Educational Foundation, during which power agents confiscated equipment and banned literature, eyewitnesses report. As of 11:30 p.m., most of the Muslims detained by law enforcers were released from the police station.

The criminal charges moved against a number of Azerbaijani non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and well-known civil society activists are of political nature. These charges are aimed to eliminate the independent institutions of the civil society, said members of the leading Azerbaijani NGOs.

On Friday, members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan were unable to get into the unit "G" of the Makhachkala SIZO No. 1 (pre-trial prison), said Svetlana Isaeva, a human rights defender.

In Moscow, the office of the "Enlightenment" Foundation, where on Friday, Muslims gathering for prayer had been detained, is being searched, and staff members of the Department to Combat Extremism are searching for explosives there.

On Friday, the Novocherkassk City Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the Union "Women of Don" against the court's decision on the fine of 300,000 roubles for the NGO's activities without registration as a "foreign agent." The Union "Women of Don" intends to challenge the decision, advocate Olga Gnezdilova reports.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has refused to release from custody businessman Levon Airapetyan, one of the richest members of the Armenian Diaspora, who is accused in the Russian Federation of embezzlement of funds and money laundering.

Madina Djamaldinova, a resident of Makhachkala, has been sentenced to 1.5 years of imprisonment in settlement-colony on charges of joining the armed underground and aiding other militants, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

At present, forensic experts are not yet able to draw any opinion on the causes of death of journalist Timur Kuashev in Nalchik. However, the experts have found on his body a sign from an injection, said Valery Ustov, the head of the Investigating Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).