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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.

The cause of the death of the employee who has died today while evacuating passengers from a burning aircraft was previously identified as a heart attack, the representative of the Sochi Airport has stated.

The exposition in the city of Shushi, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first Armenian Republic, the 2800th anniversary of Yerevan and the proclamation day of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), presents more than 60 works of the 20 painters from Australia, who have Armenian origin.

Tonight, a Boeing-738 caught fire when landing at Sochi Airport, six out of eighteen victims were hospitalized.

The announced by the Karabakh authorities return of Talish villagers, evacuated during the 2016 April war, by September 1, is postponed, since the restoration of their houses destroyed by bombardments has not been completed yet.

Today, in front of the German Embassy in Yerevan, a group of activists held an action against LGBT propaganda and for the preservation of the traditional family. Activists called not to condemn residents of the Armenian village for their clash with LGBT activist until the end of the investigation.

Today, six participants of the "Strategy-31" action held solo pickets demanding not to raise the retirement age, to dismiss the Mayor of Volgograd and to release the oppositional leader Alexei Navalny.

The authorities of North Ossetia have ignored the request of residents to postpone the start of the academic year from September 1 to September 4 because of the Day of Sorrow for the victims of the terror act in Beslan. Meanwhile, South Ossetia, which is another state the de jure, will celebrate the Day of Knowledge on September 5.

The verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (EctHR) provides grounds for reviewing sentences for supporters of the organization "Nurdjular" banned and recognized extremist in Russia, including in Northern Caucasus, believe theologians and lawyers.