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Mourning events dedicated to the 19th anniversary of the terror act in Beslan ended in North Ossetia. People who came to the school No. 1 in Beslan lit candles, carried flowers in memory of the dead, brought bottles of water, opened them and left them in a school gym.

Mourning in Beslan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, fire in Gelendzhik, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, impeachment proceedings against Zurabishvili, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 28-September 3, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The sale volumes of antidepressants have increased in Dagestan, Chechnya, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. Residents of these republics have become more nervous about the pandemic; and people have also become more anxious amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a psychologist believes.

Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who received an order from the command of his military unit in Dagestan to return to the special military operation zone (SMO) in Ukraine, has refused to take part in hostilities. He explained this by his state of health caused by a grave backbone disease.

The investigation of the criminal case on the terror act committed in Beslan has not yet been completed, activists of the "Beslan Mothers" have stated on the 19th anniversary of the school seizure. They called for speeding up the investigation and announced an appeal to the court to lift the ban on criminal prosecution of the members of the hostage rescue operative headquarters.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia has entered Mairbek Vachagaev*, a Chechen historian and journalist, into the register of foreign agents.

Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was mobilized despite his backbone hernia, has received a travel certificate from the command of his military unit in Dagestan to return to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, his wife has informed.

The director of the school museum dedicated to the Beslan tragedy is ready to share the exhibits with the new museum, which is being created directly on the site of the terror act. The victims and victims' relatives hope that the new museum will help preserve the memory of what happened.

A complaint about insufficient medical care in a penal colony to Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia, and about the beating of another prisoner, was redirected to the prosecutor’s office. The convict’s defence decided to appeal against the refusal to conduct an inspection.

The head of Chechnya said that he would not forgive the US sanctions imposed on his mother, Aimani Kadyrova, and demanded that they be lifted, while treating the sanctions as "painless."

Law enforcers have searched the apartment and studio of the Volgograd street painter, Philip Kozlov, known under the pseudonym of Philippenzo.

During the second Chechen campaign alone, up to 5000 people fell victim of enforced disappearances, and over the past 30 years, about 8000 people have disappeared in Northern Caucasus.

Two employees of the road-and-patrol service of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) (known as DPS) have been detained within the case of abuse of power. They demanded that a resident of Nalchik confess to drug dealing, and when he refused, they used force against him, investigators have suggested.

Officials and law enforcement bodies did not respond to requests to close the criminal case against Timur Arslanbekov, a coach from Buynaksk, for attacking a law enforcer. The defence has repeatedly filed appeals against the refusals to investigate the beating of Timur Arslanbekov by the police, but has not succeeded in seeking an institution of a criminal case.

Gamid Dataev, who was recognized by human rights defenders as a political prisoner, has gone on a hunger strike at the Yekaterinburg SIZO (pre-trial prison). He insists that the case of the terrorist community has been fabricated.

In Saint Petersburg, law enforcers have detained and then fined Dmitry Kuzmin, a local resident, for violating the anti-COVID restrictions, when he went out to the city administration building with a picket in support of Zarema Musaeva.

The Elbrus District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has terminated the proceedings on the case of an administrative offense against Vladimir Kryachko due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

A Maykop court has arrested Tatiana Moskalenko, a local resident, within the case of calls for protests against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

The appellate instance has upheld the decision of the district court to refuse to recognize the right of Bogdan Letunov, a zoo activist and pacifist from Volgograd, to an alternative army service. The instance has failed to take into account the violation by the conscription commission of the requirements of the law on the alternative service, a human rights defender has pointed out.

Watchman Fyodor Valko from the Prikubansky farm yard was detained on suspicion of stealing a conveyor belt at a factory. The man was beaten and accused of failure to obey legal requests of law enforcers. In addition to abrasions and bruises, Fyodor Valko was diagnosed with closed vertebral fracture.