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During four days, on August 17-20, 16 suspected militants were killed in Dagestan, including Bammatkhan Sheikhov, the leader of the Buynaksk grouping, who claimed to be Amir of Dagestan.

Today, relatives of missing residents of Dagestan have held a rally in Makhachkala and stated that law enforcers and special agents had had to do with disappearances.

On August 21, the documents confirming the nomination of Rustam Ibragimbekov, the Chairman of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), for participation as a candidate at the presidential election were submitted to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan.

Today, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported that during the public disorders in the Kumtorkalin District of the republic, four policemen suffered; one of them was hospitalized.

On August 21, people who live in Nos. 3, 5 and 7 inKomitas Avenue in Yerevan organized a picket against construction of a multi-purpose building in their yard. During the action, one of the protesters, Anushavan Petrosyan, cut his veins and was hospitalized.

Dagestan hosts the Caucasian youth forum "Relay of Peace and Brotherhood". The event brought together representatives of all religions without exception.

On August 21, in Nalchik, policemen detained Alim Uzdenov, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria. Drugs found by the policemen became the reason for his detention. But his relatives claim that Alim has never had anything to do with narcotic substances.

The investigator, who carries out the investigation into the case on charges against builder Mardiros Demerchyan of defaming policemen, tried to bring Mardiros Demerchyan to the investigating authorities for polygraph examination.

The Azerbaijan's authorities will not prevent the return of soldier Akop Indjigulyan to Armenia. This was reported today by Shakhin Sailov, Secretary of the State Commission on Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Persons.

Leaders of several major human rights organizations appealed to representatives of the Russian intelligentsia and urged them to oppose the campaign against illegal immigrants spread in the country.

On August 21, in Karaman, where about a thousand Kumyk migrants gathered dissatisfied with the distribution of land plots, unrests began; and the police pulled up additional forces to the area.

On August 21, Grozny hosted a picket against discrimination of natives of Northern Caucasus in other regions of Russia, Kheda Saratova, one of the organizers of the action and a member of the Presidium of the "United Caucasian Forum" reported.

The Kremlin approves the course of the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov; therefore, the upcoming election will be no surprise, Akhmed Yarlykapov, a scientific collaborator of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Soltan Semyonov, the head of the Karachaevsk city authority, accused of misuse of funds, has been released from custody today by the decision of the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia.

Aiman Salikhova, a resident of the village of Mutsalaul of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, has claimed that law enforcement bodies put pressure upon her younger son Nurula Nurulaev, whose elder brothers are suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations.

The administration of the city of Pyatigorsk has refused to uphold the application filed by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Stavropol Territory to hold namaz (prayer) in the central square of the city.

On August 18, a group of twenty Dagestani journalists and bloggers made the first trip within the framework of the project "52/52", designed to tell Dagestanis about their republic.

Today, the Abinsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has completed pronouncing the verdict in the case against four officials from the Krymsk and the Krymsk District on the flooding occurred in last July.

In USA, the Prosecutor's Office investigates the incident, in the course of which FBI agents killed Ibragim Todashev, a native of Chechnya, for possible abuse of power.

At the meeting of Armen Ashotyan, Minister of Education and Sciences, and participants of the protest action against the increase of tuition fees in higher education institutions issues on changes in higher education system and social problems were discussed.