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On August 25, Artyom Malinovskiy, 16, was brought by policemen to the narcology dispensary, tried to run away from there and perished.

The oppositional "Georgian Party" calls on the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Chief Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to react to statements of drivers of Tbilisi minivans, who claim that they are forced to raise the tariffs.

In 2011, the Public Observation Commission (POC) for monitoring jails and detention facilities of Kabardino-Balkaria received over a hundred complaints, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Magazali Endreev, the Chair of the POC.

In the period from August 25 to September 1, the Federal Service of Court Marshals (FSCM) for the Republic of Kalmykia (RK) is holding the campaign "Your child needs you", under which the court marshals of the Elista branch are sending reminder letters to most malicious alimony defaulters.

Employees of the Grozny-based organization "Grozvodokanal" (water supply and sewage) cannot receive their several months' salary. Workers of another entity – the Unitary Enterprise "Spetsstroy" – have again complained of their employers.

The defence of Rasul Mirzaev, a native of Dagestan and the world champion in mixed martial arts, accused of beating to death the 19-year-old student Ivan Agafonov in Moscow, asks to release him from custody, said the fighter's advocate Igor Dergachov.

The tree children injured in the explosions on August 21 near a supermarket in Makhachkala, are still in hospital. According to doctors, their lives are out of danger, but they will time for treatment and rehabilitation.

The issues of mutual cooperation and possible investments in Ingushetia were discussed at the meeting in Magas, Ingushetia, by the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov and Mr Ernesto Jose Verdu Rico (Spain), the owner of the company "BLUE LAND STONE SLU".

Residents of the village of Arazina, Julfa District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) of Azerbaijan, have declared death of their relative Turadzh Zeinalov at the regional Ministry of National Security (MNS).

Hasan Arsakhanov, native of Chechnya who was searched for by law enforcement bodies of North Osetia, was considered missing since August, 9, his relatives reported.

A pressure group “Hospital for the children!” collected 318 signatures as of August, 28, under a communal letter to President of the USA Barack Obama with an appeal to take the only children’s hospital in the republic under his jurisdiction.

Over one hundred residents of Sochi took part in a meeting against violations during impoundment of property connected with Olympic resettlement.

The flood which happened in Chechnya on August, 27, because of a strong rise of water level in the rivers caused by pelting rains inflicted serious damage upon the town of Grozny and the settlement of Shaami-Yurt, Achkhoi-Martan district, where 20 private housing estates were waterlogged.

Over 2000 participants of the tenth jubilee International Investment Forum “Sochi-2011” which will start on September, 15, have confirmed their readiness to come.

Today, the Geichai District Court of Azerbaijan has sentenced human rights defender Vidadi Iskenderov, the head of the NGO "Promoting Defence of Democracy", to 3 years of imprisonment.

Alexander Ankvab became the third president of Abkhazia. He won the presidential election in the republic by gathering 54.86% of votes, as reported by Batal Tabagua, Chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia.

On Friday, August 26, activists of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA) and a group of its believers-supporters staged a protest action outside the mosque "Bibi-Eibat" in the south-eastern outskirt of Baku on the occasion of the "Goodes Day" (Jerusalem), which is marked this year on August 26.

Some of these days, two weeks after demolition on August 11 of the one-floor building, which housed offices of the Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD) and two other NGOs, a letter arrived to the E-mail address of the owner of the building, human rights activist Leila Yunus, from the Baku Mayoralty with a proposal to sell the building.

The Fifth International Arts Symposium "Alanika-2011" that opened on August 25 in Vladikavkaz has attracted masters of paintings, graphic arts, installation, and photo and video arts from Italy, Great Britain, France, Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, Israel and Azerbaijan. The republic is also visited by their colleagues from Moscow, Kaliningrad, Yekaterinburg and Makhachkala.

Yerevan shops have set up sugar prices by about 20% higher. Exporters attributed this rise to the growth of world sugar prices.