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On September 1 and 2, school lessons were disrupted in the village of Irganai, Untsukul District of Dagestan. Parents would not let their children to school, demanding a meeting with the republic's leadership to discuss the situation with non-payment of compensations for flooded land.

Over 10 years from the date when militants had seized the Beslan School No. 1, the proportion of people, who believe that the Russian authorities and law enforcers did everything possible to rescue the hostages, has increased from 52% to 64%, states the "Levada-Centre" following the results of the public questioning. Number of respondents who treated measures taken by the authorities as insufficient decreased to 24%.

In Krasnodar, Darya Polyudova, an activist of the "ROT-Front", the United Communist Party of Novorossiysk, one of the organizers of the failed "March for Kuban Federalization", who had been earlier detained on charges of disorderly conduct, has been arrested on suspicion of extremism.

On September 1, more than seven thousand children of Ukrainian immigrants started training at schools of all 55 municipalities of the Rostov Region, the press service of the Rostov regional government reports.

On the Knowledge Day, the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has opened new schools and other educational institutions. However, the regions of the NCFD claim the large number of pupils and the shortage of places for them.

On September 1, in Dagestan, advocate Sapiyat Magomedova filed a complaint to the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), stating that the investigation into the case of her beating by policemen was intentionally delayed. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sapiyat Magomedova herself.

Till present, the federal budget allocated no funds for compensation payments to residents of the village of Mekhelta of the Gumbet District of Dagestan affected by the torrential rains, stated the response of the Dagestani authorities to a complaint filed by two local residents. However, the letter from the Russian Ministry of Regional Development contradicts the information of the Dagestani authorities, advocate Sapiyat Magomedova believes.

Today, at the session of the Maikop City Court, Zarema Khadjirokova, the former chief accountant of the Maikop State Technological University, accused of fraud, has announced a hunger strike. She demands to transfer her trial to a different region.

In Azerbaijan, Abulfat Namazov, a video and photo journalist of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was not allowed to leave the country. On August 31, he was stopped from going to the United States on a journalism programme.

On October 14, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) will begin considering the complaint lodged by victims of the terror act in Beslan School No. 1, said Susanna Dudieva, the Chair of the Public Committee "Mothers of Beslan". According to her story, today, on the 10th anniversary of the tragedy, the limitation time for bringing those responsible to justice expires; however, no objective investigation has ever been carried out.

During the week of August 25-31, 2014, at least 3 persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded persons were reported. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources. According to the law enforcement bodies, all killed persons were suspected members of the armed underground in Dagestan.

The art project of Yekaterinburg painters named "Beslan", dedicated to the victims of the 2004 terror act in North Ossetia, was opened on September 1 inMoscow and will last in the Marat Gelman's Gallery at the Winery till the evening of September 5. Besides, within the public campaign "Remember Beslan!", by the anniversary of the tragedy, activist published brochures containing the data of the independent investigation into the circumstances of the tragedy.

Today, the town of Beslan has started a three-day mourning event to mark the tenth anniversary of the terror act committed on September 1, 2004. More than 3000 people came to the yard of the School No. 1 to commemorate the victims of the terror act.

In Chechnya, the markets raise prices for some food products. According to the Chechen Department of the Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), over the recent week, prices for meat, sausages and dairy products rose by 5-20 percent. Local residents have expressed their concern about the above price growth, and they are afraid of food shortages.

Summer camps of the armed underground and a hideout with ammunition were found near two villages of the Nazran District of Ingushetia, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

Reports of involvement of Russian militaries, including soldiers from southern regions of the country, in combat operations in the territory of Ukraine; recognition of independence of Nagorno-Karabakh by the US State of California; abolition of the direct election of the Makhachkala Mayor and withdrawal of the banking license of the Dagestani "Mesed" Bank; several false reports on bombs in public places of Stavropol, Volgograd, and Rostov-on-Don; music festival "KaZantip" in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 25-31, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On August 31, Russia returned to the Ukrainian side the soldiers, who on August 27 crossed the Russian-Ukrainian border and entered the territory of the Rostov Region, stated Major-General Alexei Ragozin, Deputy Commander of the Airborne Forces of the Russian Federation.

In Azerbaijan, bank accounts of the Centre for Economic Research (CER) and its leader Gubad Ibadoglu have been frozen. On August 28, Gubad Ibadoglu was questioned by the General Prosecutor's Office as a witness in the case against a number of local and foreign NGOs, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the CER leader.

In Sochi, Lavrikov family members have challenged the decision of the Krasnodar Regional Court to grant the request of the Sochi city administration to transfer the Lavrikov family members to "Olympic" housing. The appeal has been filed against the court's decision to evict four adults from the dilapidated house to a one-room apartment in a building for "Olympic" settlers.

On August 29, Vasily Golubev, the Governor of the Rostov Region, announced that all field temporary accommodation centres (TACs) for Ukrainian refugees would be closed during a week. The TACs are to be closed because of bad weather conditions in the Rostov Region. The authorities plan to transfer refugees to stationary accommodation centres.