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On September 1, the festivities began with open lessons in all educational institutions on the topic "25 years of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR)". The celebrations are to finish today, on September 3, by opening of a new residential district in the village of Agavno of the Kashatag District, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The court has obliged each of truck drivers Andrei Bazhutin and Arkady Moshnikov, detained in Rostov-on-Don among participants of the farmers' tractor march, to pay a fine amounting to 10,000 roubles.

The authorities of Chechnya saw no enemy in the person of Ruslan Martagov, a missing political analyst, said Djambulat Umarov, the head of the republic's Ministry of Press. According to his version, they had agreed with Martagov, prior to his disappearance, that he would write an article about the Ichkeria regime.

Khadjimurat Akkaev, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who won bronze at the 2008 Olympics, has stated that the results of cross-checking his doping assay, which revealed the presence of a prohibited substance in his body, are false.

The play, based on real events, was staged today at the Culture Palace of the Voroshilov District of Volgograd. The events in the Beslan School were reconstructed by the pupils of the propaganda theatre "Nabat" (Alarm) and theatrical studio "Breeze". The event was visited by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today Nalchik has hosted a roundtable dedicated to Solidarity Day in Combating Terrorism, where Kazbek Tatuev, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) made a statement, according to which currently 34 local residents are wanted for involvement in terrorism.

Ruslan Martagov has stopped communicating after on September 1, he twice visited Grozny at the invitation of officials from the Chechen Ministry for National Policy, External Relations and Information. This was reported by a brother and a son of the political analyst.

Today, the Association of Carriers of Russia has reported about the detention of four activists of the "tractor march" at a parking lot in Rostov-on-Don.

Today, in Izberbash, unidentified men have opened fire on policemen. No one suffered. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has condemned the detention of mothers of Beslan and called the actions of law enforcers and the court's decision as "a blatant case of legal blindness."

Today, in Beslan, the court has found three women involved in a protest action and a woman who was standing next to them, guilty of violating the order of holding rallies.

Relatives of the Gasanguseinov brothers, killed on August 23 in the Shamil District of Dagestan, filed a complaint to the investigating authorities of Dagestan and human rights defenders with a request to carry out an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths. This was told on September 1 to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the killed brothers.

In Beslan, Svetlana Margieva, whose daughter was killed in the terror act and who took part in a protest action, went on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of the police. The court has pronounced the decision to fine all the women involved in the protest action, who have been detained today. The detainees also plan to go on a hunger strike.

Victor Kapitonov, an activist, who tried to hold a commemoration action for victims of the terror act in Beslan, was detained near the building of the administration of Russian President.

Sculptures, decorations and tapestries created by Syrian repatriates are presented at the exhibition "Autumn-2016", organized by the Union of Artists. At the opening day, August 31, the exhibition was attended by about 100 people, the organizers have reported.

Policemen have charged five women-participants of the protest action in Beslan, detained today together with journalists, with violation of the order of holding a meeting.

Today, Elena Kostyuchenko and Diana Khachatryan, journalists of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" and the edition "Takie Dela", respectively, have been detained in Beslan while they were highlighting the protest action of mothers who lost their children during the terror act in Beslan in 2004.

Foreign citizens, who on August 30 declared a hunger strike at a special temporary detention facility in the Sochi village of Vardan, stopped their protest action in connection with the improvement of their conditions of detention.

The Chechens, who are refused entry to Poland from Belarus, do not want to return home, and many of them decided to stay in Brest.

Usman Murdalov, a resident of Chechnya, who was killed while attacking inspectors of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) in the Moscow Region, had planned to join his family members, who had earlier moved to Germany. This was reported by relatives and friends of Usman Murdalov.