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A charitable organization named "Peacebuilding UK" has offered the non-profit organizations (NPOs) of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria to take part in the experience exchange programmes with human rights defenders from other countries.

By majority of votes, the Deputies of the Buynaksk City Assembly elected Gusein Gamzatov, who had held the post before August 6, to be the Mayor of the city.

In the Buynaksk District, during a shootout, an unidentified man, who opened fire at policemen, was shot dead, said a local law enforcement source.

Alexander Shuvalov is a figure loyal to the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov, Dagestani experts assert. In the opinion of Mukhammad Tsezi, Shuvalov has legally used the mechanism that allowed him to retain his post. The head of Kizlyar was elected by the deputy corps formed by the team of Sagid Murtazaliev, Albert Esedov has noted.

Increased efforts to ensure safety and activation of antiterrorist commissions should be the key objectives for the authorities in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Yuri Kokov, the republic's leader, has stated.

Investigators ignore the results of a number of forensic-medical examinations conducted under the case of Ruslan Rakhaev, the deputy head Cherkessk OVD (Interior Division), his defence has stated. According to the advocate, was conducted after the bones of the deceased detainee Dakhir Djankezov had been irreparably damaged.

On September 8, Dagestan completes receiving documents from those who want to perform the Hajj.

The early election of the Mayor of Buynaksk, who will be elected on September 8 by Deputies of the City Assembly, comply with the law, the city administration asserts. The Dagestani journalists Magomed Magomedov and Ramazan Radjabov are confident of the victory of the ex-Mayor of Gusein Gamzatov, who had resigned on the eve of the election; and treat Osman Osmanov, who headed Buynaksk in 1997-2001, as his real rival.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the order of indicting Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a figurant in Boris Nemtsov's murder case.

During the week from August 31 to September 6, 2015, no victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.