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In the evening of August 27, in Armenia, in the outskirts of the city of Gyumri, after a pre-election rally of Samvel Balasanyan, a candidate for the position of Mayor of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party, an incident with shooting occurred. This was reported by Karen Babakekhyan, Chief of the Shirak Regional Police Department.

Arthur Dashyan, the husband of Elena Spasskaya, Director of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise (MUE) "Directorate of Shopping Mall Service", who was convicted for fraud, again filed to the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin an appeal with a complaint against the actions of investigators, prosecutors and judges of Sochi and the Krasnodar Territory.

A suicide bomber who exploded herself in the house of sheikh Said Afandi in Dagestan was identified as resident of Makhachkala Aminat Saprykina, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

During last week, August, 20, to August, 26, 2012, at least 24 people became victims of an armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the totals of calculation by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources. 15 out of them were killed and 9 got wounded.

The cemetery of the village of Chirkey, Buinaksk District of Dagestan, is the venue of the funeral of Sheikh Said Afandi Chirkawi, who was killed today in an explosion triggered in his house. According to preliminary estimates, the number of people who gathered to say farewell to him, is about 150,000.

Today, the Guba District Court of Azerbaijan, chaired by Judge Zamin Takhirov, has held a preparatory session on the case of the first group of people, accused of rioting in the city of Guba on March 1, 2012.

On August 28, the Day of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili pardoned 168 prisoners.

In Ingushetia, during a special operation, a police officer, born in 1980, was wounded in his chest; he was hospitalized in grave condition, said a spokesman for the regional department of the FSB.

The whereabouts of Ruslanbek Agiev, a resident of Malgobek and an employee of the Ingush MIA, who disappeared on August 23, remains unknown, said his father Aslan Agiev.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Alovsat Abbasov, has started a preliminary hearing on the case of 22 citizens of Azerbaijan, accused of treason, espionage and other crimes.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has opposed the revision of the existing administrative Chechen-Ingush border.

On August 28, the village hospital resumed its work in the village of Novomikhailovsky affected by the flood. It was closed for reconstruction on August 22. This morning, it already gave birth to two newborns, said the public health department of the Tuapse District.

Three local residents in Malgobek district of Ingushetia perished as a result of skirmishes, information about two more lost persons is currently being verified, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports. Battles are going on in Malgobek and the neighbouring settlement of Sagopshi.

A group of children who had a rest in Kobuleti on invitation of a Georgian non-governmental organization (NGO) the “Caucasus Foundation” returned from Georgia. All in all Georgia received 30 refugees’ children, Alihan Akhilgov, Head of foundation “Aid to deported peoples”, reported.

The advocates for the successor of the military doctor Vage Avetyan, who died after a fight in the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, state their work is hampered and the case initiated on the fact of Avetyan's death by the Central Investigatory Department of the Armenian Police is considered with violations.

Today, the court has ruled to arrest Rustam Evloev, an inspector of the road-and-post-service (known as DPS) for the Nazran District of Ingushetia, who had been kidnapped, according to his relatives, by unidentified armed people in Chechnya, for two months.

Ilya Gachegov from St Petersburg, a participant of the motor rally "White Stream" has handcuffed himself to the building of the MIA Department for the Astrakhan Region in support of the convicted performers of the punk prayer from the "Pussy Riot" group at Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

At 12:10 a.m. Moscow time, near the "Fabrichny Marketplace" in the centre of Nazran, an improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered. The blast injured three people; one of them is in critical condition, said the Ingush Central Republic's Clinical Hospital.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the appeal of the advocates of Vladimir Zhamborov, an official from Kabardino-Balkaria, who asked to consider their complaint about the need for action to stop violations committed against him, and release him from custody, in the priority order, said Ruslan Koblev, one of Zhamborov's advocates.

Political party “Way of Georgia” abandons participation in the election of the Georgian Parliament in favour of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s oppositional coalition “The Georgian Dream”. This was the party’s statement dated August, 27.