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The verdict passed by the Soviet District Court, according to which 8 natives of Dagestan were found guilty of raping a 26-year-old girl, a hearing and speech invalid, has come into affect, as reported by the Investigatory Department for the Astrakhan Region of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation).

The Ministry of National Security (MNS) of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR) has admitted the death on August 28 of Turadzh Zeinalov, 31, who had been arrested by Ministry's agents. However, the MNS of the NAR denies the violent death of Zeinalov.

The administration of the city of Armavir, Krasnodar Territory, has created the United Database of City Problems, which is based on the programme of "social family passports".

Committee of Inquiry accuses an eighteen-years-old resident of Krasnodar of an attempt of killing a sixteen-years-old ethnic Armenian on ethnic hatred grounds.

Today Central district court of Volgograd sentenced Elena Ivanova, ex-employee of Public prosecutor’s office, who was acknowledged guilty of a child’s death in a road accident to 2,5 years of custody with a stay of execution.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has presently received 2324 search requests from persons whose relatives in Northern Caucasus are considered missing. This figure was announced by North-Caucasian Mission of ICRC on the eve of International Day of Missing People which is commemorated today, August, 30.

XVI International Bike-festival called “Epilogue” organized by “Night Wolfs” motorcycle club passed off at the sea front of Novorossiysk on August, 29. Head of the Russian Government Vladimir Putin arrived at the festival in the lead of a motorcade at the wheel of a three-wheeled “Harley Davidson”.

Abkhazia elects Alexander Ankvab to be its new president; however, the international community is not in a hurry to recognize the legality of the election; Azerbaijani court convicts six more oppositionist for taking part in April rally; dam failure in Grozny becomes a tragedy for 2500 citizens; in Krasnodar Territory another "raid" of ecological activists to "Tkachov's summer house" ends in arrests again, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of August 22-28, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Power agents have to do with kidnapping in Ingushetia of Umalat Bersanov and Akroman Ugurchiev, residents of Sleptsovsk, their relatives assert. They fear for the fate and health of the missing men. Law enforcers say that a check is underway on the fact of the disappearance of Bersanov and Ugurchiev.

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.