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Members of the "People Against Corruption" Party have explained their decision not to take part in the elections for the People's Assembly of Dagestan by the administrative pressure from the authorities.

The forensic examination has found out that Bairam Mamedov and Giyas Ibragimov do not use drugs. This was reported by their advocate Elchin Sadygov. The defender has also claimed that the activists' rights are still being violated in SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Today, Ovik Abrahamyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, has condemned the seizure of the police regiment building in Yerevan.

Last night, the police have detained 136 citizens in the capital of Armenia. This was learned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent from the press service of the Police of Armenia.

The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has recognized contradicting the law the actions of the Azerbaijani military men against civilians and soldiers of Nagorno-Karabakh during the April escalation of the conflict.

Staff members of the Office of the Armenian Ombudsman intend to file a complaint to the investigating authorities. The number of injured journalists has not been specified yet.

The "Frostway" Company has started selling ice cream "Stary Gorod" (Old Town), which packaging depicts the buildings of the historical centre of Vladikavkaz. 20% of proceeds from the sale of the products will be sent to finance translation of popular cartoons into the Ossetian language.

In Yerevan, 51 people injured as a result of clashes between activists and policemen, engaged in cordoning-off the territory of the seized building of the patrol-and-security regiment of the police.

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Protesters do not intend to leave Khorenatsi Street, despite the spraying of tear gas by policemen, said Maxim Sarkisyan, an activist.

In the course of a clash of protesters with policemen in Yerevan, several activists were injured.

Today, a group of active supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia by the court, was detained in the city of Magas and in one of the municipal districts of Nazran, the FSB's Department for Ingushetia has reported.

Khachatur Gichyan, a supporter of the "Constituent Parliament", has been arrested for two months on charges of helping an armed grouping, which captured the building of the Armenian police patrol-and-guard regiment.

The initiative group, organized by the Saint Petersburg's branch of the "Yabloko" Party, has once again applied to the City Election Commission (CEC).

Today, in the centre of Kiev, journalist Pavel Sheremet has been killed in a car bombing. He was a well-known journalist, who worked in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. He is the author of the documentary film "The Chechen Diary" and the book "Saakashvili/Georgia. Dead Dreams". According to the preliminary version of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the car was blown up by an explosive device.

The preliminary investigation into the second criminal case against Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, suspected of insulting a public prosecutor during the trial in Chechnya, has been completed. The defence has examined the case materials.

Law enforcers conducted searches in the apartment and the garage of Karo Egnukyan, a member of the "Constituent Parliament". The activist himself is taken into custody. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" at the headquarters of the united opposition.

Until August 31, the complainants are to submit to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) the additional materials and answers to questions in the case on the murder of Natalia Estemirova, a staff member of the "Memorial", who was killed in Chechnya in 2009. This was reported by Kirill Koroteev, a senior lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

In the Armenian capital, protesters have erected barricades in front of the cordon near the seized building of the police regiment. Participants of the protest action have decided to spend the second night at the place to prevent the assault of the building.

The Elista City Court has pronounced the decision to arrest until September 14 the deputy chief and the medical assistant of the penal colony, where in November 2015, a prisoner was found dead with signs of violent death.