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The commemorations of the victims of the terror act in Beslan were held in Moscow and other Russian cities. President Vladimir Putin had no plans to take part in any of them on September 1-3.

The Tsentralny District Court of Volgograd has granted the prosecutor's to collect in favour of a builder of the "Volgograd Arena" Stadium his salary debt for 4.5 months and compensation of moral harm in the amount of more than 229,000 roubles.

In the city of Argun, law enforcers have tortured 40 detainees trying to knock confessions out of them, sources assert. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya calls this information a lie.

Azerbaijani law enforcers stopped the action "Returning Home", held near the troops contact line. A forced migrant, who wanted to return to his native Karabakh village, as well as his supporters, were detained at the border, activists have reported. The authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have treated the incident as a provocation.

A soldier of the Armed Forces of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) was found dead in a military unit, the republic's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

One person was killed and two more were wounded in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 27 to September 2, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Russia can ignore the demands of 15 OSCE member states to report within a ten-day period on measures taken to protect human rights in Chechnya, note Russian rights defenders.

On September 1, a group of Azerbaijani rights defenders, NGO activists, and lawyers released an updated list of political prisoners, which included 128 names. Activists monitor the cases against other two prisoners.

Azamat Baiduev, who was extradited by the Polish authorities to Russia, was kidnapped from his house in the village of Shalazhi in the Urus-Martan District a day after his arrival in Chechnya. That was reported by Akhmed Gisaev, the leader of the Human Rights Analysis Centre.

Festivities on Republic Declaration Day were held in the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). It should unite with Armenia, the local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Residents of South Ossetia have supported the decision of the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences to postpone the Knowledge Day until September 5 in connection with the 14th anniversary of the terror act in Beslan. However, the Tskhinvali women, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", are surprised at the decision of North-Ossetian authorities to combine the funeral events with the start of the school year.

The multinational NATO exercises Agile Spirit 2018 with the participation of servicemen from the USA, Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Greece, Ukraine, Turkey, the Czech Republic and Estonia have begun on the base of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Georgian Armed Forces in the Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti region.

In the course of an armed clash in Dagestan, law enforcers killed a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF), an informed source has reported.

Advocates have lodged a complaint to the Court of Cassation of Armenia, indicating two grounds for the release of Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, which were not taken into account by the Court of Appeal.

Giorgi Chelidze, the head of the "National Unity of Georgia" is suspected of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.

A three-day memorial watch for those killed in the terror act in Beslan in 2004 kicked off on September 1 with laying flowers in the memorial complex. By noon, about a thousand people visited the memorial.

During the week from August 26 to September 1, Azerbaijani militaries made more than 2000 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

A new Islamic judge (Qadi) has been appointed in the Shali District of Chechnya; the teens who committed a series of attacks on policemen are natives of this district. Local residents believe that this appointment is associated with the tightening of authorities' control over the youth and preparation for the deportation of attackers' relatives from Chechnya.

Within the last 24 hours, Armenia's servicemen violated the ceasefire regime for 96 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili has stated that he has no intention to participate in the upcoming presidential election. After this statement was made, the opposition criticized the President, while members of the ruling party said that Margvelashvili had no chance to win.