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Today, the court rejected the petition of the defence of Malkhaz Kobauri to release him from arrest for killing the Smith family in mountains of Georgia.

After the recent series of attacks on policemen, law enforcers took teenagers straight from the streets and conducted many-hours-long interrogations of them, residents of the Shali District of Chechnya have reported. According to their estimates, from 150 to 200 people were detained.

Five people perished and five others were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 20 to August 26, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, at the trial of Oyub Titiev, the head of Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Yusup Shakhgeriev, a policeman, stated that he knew nobody from the direct-action team. An advocate of Oyub Titiev has objected that he personally saw the witness handshaking with the group.

Over the past day, the Armenian armed forces have violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line 82 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

Today, the 8th annual international open-air film festival "A Point in the Infinite Universe" has finished in Abkhazia. 36 films were shown during the festival.

The Chechen TV has announced the full Kremlin support for the Ramzan Kadyrov's statements against rights defenders. The authorities actively try to justify the scandalous statements voiced by the Chechen leader, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by local activists.

Fighters from the Coast Guard of Georgia and personnel of the USS Carney destroyer of the US Sixth Fleet have conducted manoeuvres and trained boarding fight exercises.

Over 3.5 tons of sacrificial meats were donated by volunteers from the "Solidarity" Foundation to the people in need in Chechnya, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, and also in Tatarstan, Bashkiria, in the camps of Syrian refugees in Lebanon and in the Gaza Strip. About 10,000 people got donations in the days of Eid al-Adha, reported Khava Tataeva, a coordinator of the special programmes of the "Solidarity" Foundation.

On August 26, in Armenia, about 20 bikers organized a motocross race from Yerevan to Amulsar. They wanted to support activists who blocked the roads to the Amulsar gold field.

On August 25, during her visit to Baku, German Chancellor Angela Merkel met civil society activists. Participants of the meeting expressed different assessments for the Angela Merkel's visit from the point of view of the possible contribution to the protection of human rights. According to them, the German Chancellor demonstrated good knowledge of the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan. However, some of the activists have noted it is hardly worth waiting for a lot from the meeting.

In the Grozny District of Chechnya, employees of rural administrations and public institutions are regularly obliged to take participate in subbotniks (Saturday voluntary works), reported participants of the events themselves.

A Greek tanker with 17 Georgian citizens, which disappeared for two weeks from radar along the coast of Africa, has been found and returned to the port, the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.

The topic of the Sixth Youth Forum, which is attended by some 80 residents of Nagorno-Karabakh, is social entrepreneurship.

A fighter from Dagestan Khabib Nurmagomedov and an Irishman Conor MacGregor, whose upcoming fight at the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in the USA caused a stir among fans, accused each other of cowardice. Adulmanap Nurmagomedov, the father and the coach of the Dagestani athlete, called his son a favourite of the fight.

During the week of August 19-25, units of the Azerbaijani Army made more than 2500 shots at positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

A resident of Kalmykia, accused of beating up Tabarik Dudaeva, a Chechen woman, was detained on suspicion of hooliganism based on ethnic hatred. What happened in Bolshoi Tsaryn is an isolated incident, members of the Chechen community in Kalmykia assert.

The first civil defence training exercises were held in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) for an air strike. Siren sounds reminded of the terrible times of the first Karabakh War, residents of Stepanakert have noted. However, some of them confessed that they did not even think of hiding into the shelter, saying that they feel quite confident under the defence of their army.

Germany supports the territorial integrity and European integration of Georgia, but it is too early to talk about the country's membership in the NATO, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel said during her visit to Georgia. Georgian experts have assessed Ms Merkel's visit as a sign of support for the territorial integrity of Georgia.

70 people came to courthouse aiming to support Orkhan Bakhyshly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), but they were not let to the courtroom, because the defendant has refused to testify.