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Today, an official launch of the project of financial support of political prisoners was announced. It is executed within the human rights movement "Open Russia", headed by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former co-owner of the "Yukos" oil company.

A meeting of residents of the "Gagarinskiy" micro-district was held in Sochi. The speakers demanded to cancel the plans of erecting high-rise buildings to "compact" the district.

During the week from August 24 to August 30, 2015, at least seven persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, six of them were killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization, was joined by up to 7000 residents of Northern Caucasus. They are attracted by a possibility to live in a Sharia state and by promises of social justice, said the participants of the on-line discussion on the "Caucasian Knot" under the moderation of Naima Neflyasheva, a candidate of historical sciences.

Aslbek Ryskaliev, a resident of the Pallasovka District and a former Imam of the local mosque, has been found guilty of possessing and spreading books, included in the federal list of extremist materials.

Three families of Yazidis have moved to Armenia from the Iraqi province of Shingal. They were forced to leave their village in order to escape from radical militants of the "Islamic State" (IS) (recognized as a terrorist organization). The Migration Service of Armenia is considering their petitions for refugee status.

North Ossetia is completing preparations for the Memory Watch dated to the 11th anniversary of the terror act in Beslan School No. 1. Starting August 26, the police of North Ossetia are at strengthened mode of service.

From August 11 to September 7, the Department of Property Relations of the Administration of Sochi is accepting applications for the auction of selling 'Olympic' residential houses with land plots. Sochi residents in need of new housing believe that the houses intended for resettlement should not be auctioned at high prices.

The Volgograd inter-district environmental prosecutor's office has sent a statement of claim to the court, which obliges the Volgograd Mayoralty to organize collection and disposal of liquid domestic wastes. The office has documented numerous facts of unauthorized discharge of faecal-household sewage into the city drainage system.

The restrictions on electricity supplies to consumers in the mountainous regions of Dagestan will be in force until September 23, said the spokesman of the "Dagestani Grid Company". Earlier, they planned that restrictions would last until September 21, 2015.

On August 23-29, Azerbaijan violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line of the troops for about 950 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

A Russian Maria Kuchina, a native of the city of Prokhladny, has won the gold medal in high jump at the World Athletics Championships in Beijing.

As stated by Andrei Bocharov, the head of the Volgograd Region, a polygraph should be used to examine the employees of the Mayoralty of Volgograd, who sanctioned to commission the high-rise building in Eighth Air Force Army Street. The Governor also spoke about "criminalization of Volgograd housing and utilities sector."

As stated by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire on the frontline for 130 times during the last 24 hours.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which was introduced in the Leninsky District of Makhachkala after the attack on policemen in Novy Khushet, has been cancelled.

The number of on duty servicemen in Grozny has been increased after the murder of Musa Ayubov, an officer of the battalion "Sever" (North), and his wife Zulay; they stop drivers and inspect their cars, townspeople report.

Two suspected militants were killed by power agents in a shootout that broke out in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan at night on August 29.

Senior Lieutenant Arthur Vardgesyan has treated his slap on the elderly demonstrator Akop Nazaryan as a mistake and apologized to the public.

The initiative group "No to robbery!" is preparing to resume acts of disobedience with the demand to cancel the decision to increase the electricity tariff. According to activists, the authorities failed with their promise to subsidize the difference with the new electricity tariff.

Investigating bodies have opened a criminal case against the head of a farm and his son, who are suspected of kidnapping their employee and his minor children.