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Former employees of the Terek ROVD (District Interior Division) claimed compensation for their service on the border of the counterterrorist operation (CTO); however, the Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has rejected their claims.

In the course of searching the administration of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, law enforcers confiscated documents, said a source from the administration.

All the tenants, who lost their property, completely or partially, on July 23 during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Shogentsukov Street in Nalchik, will receive monetary compensations, said an employee from the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has ruled to arrest Andrei Vinogradov, the head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, suspected of murders and financing terrorism.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has passed a verdict against the organized criminal community, the creation of which was incriminated to Magomed Magomedov, a Deputy of the National Assembly of Dagestan. He was sentenced to 16 years in a high-security colony, and his accomplices – Magomed Gadjiev and Sirazhudin Abakarov – to 6.5 and 6 years, respectively.

A man, who fought in Syria, has become the leader of militants in the mountainous part of Dagestan. This cannot but indicate the established links of "Imarat Kavkaz" with the "Islamic State" (IS), say Akhmet Yarlykapov and Mikhail Roschin. Ruslan Martagov does not rule out activation of militants in the Caucasus.

David Khuroshvili, a resident of Gori District of Georgia, earlier detained for crossing the border with South Ossetia, has reported his release after paying a fine.

On July 28, thirty-two residents of the Chechen Republic, whose relatives disappeared during military campaigns, received the so-called "genetic passports". To date, over 300 persons have received these documents.

Azerbaijan and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) have expressed mutual accusations of shelling their positions on the border on July 28 and at night on July 29. According to the Azerbaijani party, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire for 88 times. The Defence Army of NKR has recorded 180 acts of shelling with ceasefire violations.

Aslan Bashaev, 23, a resident of Chechnya, who was sentenced to five years in colony on charges of taking part in the warfare in Syria, has lodged an appeal compliant against a too harsh, in his opinion, verdict of the first-instance court.

A court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced a resident of the Urvan District to two years of freedom deprivation. He was found guilty of supplying foodstuffs to members of the armed underground.

The mother of the prisoner, who committed suicide in prison in colony in Volgograd, has send her applications to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the FSB demanding to investigate the circumstances that brought her son to suicide.

The advocate of Khavazh Temirsultanov, a native of Chechnya, has sent complaints about the inaction of employees of the prosecutor's office and investigators to two district courts of Sochi.

Today in the morning, operative agents wearing masks detained Murat Balkarov, a resident of the village of Dugulubgey. This was reported by Elena Bairamkulova, an advocate of the Bar Association of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who is trying to establish the whereabouts of her client.

The federal authorities are getting rid of odious figures in Northern Caucasus, thus, sending an unequivocal signal to the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Rostov-on-Don, the court that considers the case of the ex-Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov continued questioning Magomed Akhmedov, who stated that investigators had used threats to force him to testify against Amirov.

The "Committee against Torture" (CaT), liquidated because of being put on the registry of "foreign agents", will be replaced by the "Committee to Prevent Torture" (CPT). The new organization will continue working in Chechnya, said its chairman Igor Kalyapin.

Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the Dagestani Branch of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR), is suspected of involvement in murders and financing terrorism.

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes that is trying the rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus has announced the indictment and questioned 11 witnesses. The spouses refused to plead guilty, and stated that the trial is non-transparent.

As stated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), within the last two days, Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire on the frontline for about 320 times.