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At night on September 4, in the Rostov Region, near the checkpoint "Voloshino" of the Millerovo Customs, a shell, presumably fire from Ukrainian side, went up, said Ryan Farukshin, a source from the Russia's Southern Customs Department, adding that the checkpoint was not damaged.

Members of the OSCE observation mission engaged in monitoring of the Russian checkpoint "Donetsk" in the Rostov Region have announced that last week, they for the first time registered firing in the direction of Ukraine from the Russian territory at different times of the day.

On September 3, Vladikavkaz launched the second international forum "Children are the victims of terror in recent history: the problem of historical memory". The forum is dated to the 10th anniversary of the tragedy in Beslan. Participants of the forum are going to involve the scientific communities both in Russia and foreign countries in the work for prevention of terror against children.

On September 1, advocate Sapiyat Magomedova challenged the guilty verdict against Shamil Nurmagomedov, a resident of Dagestan, who on August 21 was sentenced to four years of imprisonment for taking part in the armed conflict in Syria. According to the defence, the testimony taken as a basis of evidence was received under pressure from staff members of the Centre to Combat Extremism.

During the court hearings in the case on the terror act in Beslan, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will focus on the issues related to indiscriminate use of weapons, planning of the rescue operation, and measures taken by the authorities to prevent the terror act, stated the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC). Human rights defenders emphasize that the ECtHR's decision is not able to cancel pain experienced by hostages and their family members; however, it is to restore justice.

In Azerbaijan, Leyla Yunus, an arrested human rights defender, is deprived of necessary medical care at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), advocate Alaif Gasanov states. According to the advocate, her health state can deteriorate dramatically at any time.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has postponed indefinitely the consideration of the appeal complaint against the verdict passed to Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, said his advocate Pyotr Zaikin.

On September 3, the Georgian MPs have unanimously adopted a resolution on the situation in Ukraine and expressed their concern about the increase of victims of the conflict in the east of this country, while supporting its territorial integrity and accusing Russia of "a blatant military aggression."

On the eve of September 1, volunteers from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) gave one thousand roubles to each Syrian child from the families living in sanatoriums of Nalchik. In total, 33 children received the money. Today, the same thousand roubles was delivered to each of the families with 12 schoolchildren, who live in other villages of the republic or rent apartments in Nalchik.

Today, about four thousand people came to School No. 1 in Beslan, where the mourning ceremonies dated to the 10th anniversary of the terror act continue, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Radjab Mustafaev, a local resident, who was killed on September 2 in the outskirts of Makhachkala, was involved in the 2009 shelling of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Republic of Dagestan (RD), and law enforcers found a pistol and grenades with him. This was reported by the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Investigating Division for the Kirov District of Makhachkala of the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has suspended the preliminary investigation into the murder of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Elena Tumanova, the mother of Anton Tumanov, a 20-year-old soldier, has reported that her son and his colleagues, who were serving at the 18th Motorized Rifle Brigade deployed in Chechnya, perished near Donetsk in Uktaine. The woman claims that her son was killed on August 13 in the town of Snezhnoe of the Donetsk Region.

In Volgograd, a regular soldier has been found hanged after he was sentenced to serving at a penal battalion. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies and colleagues of the deceased soldier.

Supporters of the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" have distributed the video record, in which they accuse Russia of supplying weapons to Bashar al-Assad and threaten to start a war in the Caucasus.

In Moscow, participants of the picket, timed to the anniversary of the terror act at the Beslan School No. 1, have handed out about 600 leaflets "True Beslan" during their action. According to the organizers of the picket, the event was held without any incidents.

As reported by Nana Kakabadze, the head of the NGO "Political Prisoners for Human Rights", several convicted tuberculosis (TB) patients were transferred from Ksani Colony to Kutaisi Prison, where inmates are holding a hunger strike. In the opinion of Nana Kakabadze, this transfer of inmates was done illegally.

It was decided to give the 2014 "Kamerton" (Tuning-Fork) Award named after Anna Politkovskaya posthumously to the journalists Andrea Rocchelli and Andrei Mironov, who perished in Ukraine, said Nadezhda Azhgikhina, the Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia.

The rights defender Ilgar Nasibov, who was beaten up in Nakhichevan, has returned home after a medical examination in Turkey. By his perception, he is successfully recovering from received traumas. He treated the version of law enforcers that the cause of his beating was an everyday domestic conflict as a lie.

Activists of the anti-nickel movement from the city of Uryupinsk, Volgograd Region, report an illegal campaigning of the members of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party; and try to withdraw Ella Chermashentseva, the party's nominee, from the elections to the City Duma of Uryupinsk.