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According to law enforcers, four out of those killed on August 3 in a special operation in Nalchik, have joined militants this year. One of them is the main suspect of killing the Police Colonel Takhir Guziev.

Today, the Tsumadin District of Dagestan has been put under the legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO). Power agents are searching for a grouping of militants.

Within the last two weeks, Nalchik saw two special operations that resulted in deaths of 12 people, regarded as militants by law enforcers. Political analysts predict more special operations and draw attention to the transfer of armed clashes into the territory of cities.

On August 3, at the session of the court, which considers, in Rostov-on-Don, the case of the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, accused of preparing a terror act in the Crimea, six witnesses were questioned, including three "secret" ones. One of the latter – a woman – said that Sentsov had expressed the idea to blow up the monument to Lenin.

Svetlana Sviderskaya, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, intends to challenge the ruling of the Oktiabrskiy District Court of the city, which has fined her today by 20,000 roubles for participating in a picket, not coordinated with the authorities.

Gennady Afanasiev, the key witness in Sentsov's case, was tortured during the investigation, said his advocate Alexander Popkov after visiting his client at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Marat Balkarov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgey of Kabardino-Balkaria, charged with illegal possession of ammunition, has lodged his complaints to the Prosecutor's Office and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" stating about ill-treatment and his refusal from his earlier evidence given to power agents.

The number of residents of Armenia ready to take part in protest actions in support of retired colonel Volodya Avetisyan has reached 200. As reported by Gagik Sarukhanyan, the organizer of the picket in support of Avetisyan in Yerevan, it is not excluded that the action will continue in the regions of the country.

In the area of the administrative Chechen-Ingush border, where a major special operation was conducted, a search for militants continues. Locals report movements of large forces of power agents and that military helicopters take part in the special operation.

The militants killed today in a special operation in Nalchik were members of the "central sector" and involved in a number of crimes, including the assault on July 31 on Police Colonel Takhir Guziev, law enforcers report. A woman is among the casualties.

A group of six militants has been liquidated in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Nalchik, said a law enforcement source from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

In the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, at a session, where the case of rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband is considered, the health condition of the latter – Arif Yunus – has sharply worsened; they had to call an ambulance.

During the week from July 27 to August 2, 2015, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least nine human lives. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An event "Year of Inaction" was held in Nalchik in memory of the slain journalist Timur Kuashev bringing together journalists and public figures from the republics of Northern Caucasus and Moscow.

The participants of the rally, organized in Uryupinsk, state violations of their constitutional rights and inaction of the authorities in the context of the planned mining of nickel in the area of the Khopyor River.

The arrest of the head of the Kizlyar District, the detention of the head of the Buynaksk District and searches of houses of Sagid Murtazaliev and Khizri Shikhsaidov have signs of political pressure and connected with the forthcoming election of the Mayor of Makhachkala, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Eight militants were killed today in the course of a special operation conducted near the village of Dattykh, Sunzha District of Ingushetia. The militants were killed "during an armed clashes with the use of artillery," said a police source.

Russian authorities shall eliminate injustice and immediately release the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov and ecologist Alexander Kolchenko, said the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI).

In Azerbaijan, relatives of Emin Milli, the executive director of the online channel MeydanTV, who is abroad, have sent a collective appeal to the country's president, in which they condemn Milli for his critical attitude to the authorities' policies; the director himself believes that his relatives did it under pressure.

In the village of Baranovka, located in the resort city of Sochi, a gathering of citizens was held, who demanded from the LLC "Sochivodokanal" to immediately solve the problem of public drinking water outages.