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Relatives of the soldiers who disappeared in Nagorno-Karabakh have spent the whole night in front of the Armenian government building. Today, additional police forces have been drawn to the place of the protest action.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court found Arthur Chemkov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of aiding and abetting a member of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

The Armenian armed forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Tovuz District, and the shelling attack was suppressed by return fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

In the Syunik Region, villagers have limited access to food and medical services, as the road from Goris to Kapan has been blocked by Azerbaijani soldiers, the local authorities report.

Azerbaijan will open traffic on the road from Goris to Kapan if Armenia investigates an incident with the wounding of an Azerbaijani border guard, punishes the guilty persons and guarantees that no provocations will repeat, suggest Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO “Military Officers”, and Togrul Djuvarly, a member of the Azerbaijan National Public Committee for European Integration.

Members of a criminal grouping provided militants with food, transported them in personal cars, and one of the accused stored a pistol.

The Armenian leadership is speeding up negotiations, as it is morally ready for compromises with Azerbaijan on the issue of border delimitation, Azerbaijani political analysts believe, adding that Baku will meet Yerevan halfway on economic issues, but under no circumstances will agree to discuss the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The court has ruled to the arrest five residents of the Pankisi Gorge accused of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS)*, by rejecting their defence's motion to release them on bail. All the five declared their innocence.

Soldiers blocked a section of the road from Goris to Kapan, and as a result, residents of the villages of Vorotan, Shurnukh, and Bartsravan were left without a car connection. The blocked villages face problems with the supply of food.

All 120 Azerbaijani peacekeepers have been sent from Afghanistan to Turkey, from where they will return home in the near future, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, was placed in an elite clinic near Moscow, which operated without a licence, where patients were treated with unknown drugs without requiring documents, the “Meduza”* reports.

Many of the men, who left Dagestan for Syria and Iraq to join militants, were killed, and their wives and children remained in a foreign country without money or a roof over their heads, the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” reports.

A soldier of the Azerbaijani army entered a private house in Martakert and threatened minors, the Prosecutor’s Office of Nagorno-Karabakh reported. The soldier was treated in a psychiatric ward and escaped from the hospital, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Tonight, Armenian soldiers have shelled the positions of Azerbaijani militaries located in the Kelbadjar District, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The young people accused of involvement with the "Islamic State" (IS)* had left for Turkey to work and could have moved to Syria earlier, if the intelligence services' version about their plans was correct, residents of the Pankisi Gorge assert.

All the witnesses questioned by the court on August 25 called the clashes at the protest action in Magas to be the result of law enforcers' provocative actions. Ingush activists, according to witnesses, tried to prevent clashes.

For several hours, Azerbaijani militaries blocked about 40 cars with residents of Armenia on the Goris-Kapan highway section, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated. Russian militaries have entered into negotiations in order to get people out of the blocked highway section.

The grandmother's intention to take her grandchildren to Grozny after their mother, a native of Rostov-on-Don, was accused of aiding terrorism, could turn into difficulties with their return, analysts believe.

The inclusion of the Ingush activist, Akhmed Pogorov, into the list of extremists and terrorists of the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) at the stage of the prosecution is incorrect and may affect the verdict, human rights defenders believe. The advocates stated a violation of the presumption of innocence.

A Grozny court has found it legitimate the refusal to investigate the Lom-Ali Elbiev's statement of torture at the Mayoralty of Grozny, the Chechen capital. His advocate intends to appeal this decision at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has informed.