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Mamuka Samkharadze, a citizen of Georgia, who was detained on the border with South Ossetia, has been released from the insulation facility of Tskhinvali.

Director of the Institute of Strategic Development of Russia Andranik Nikogosyan should be held criminally liable for his statement that Armenia should join the "imperial" Russia, believe activists of the Armenian "Union of Young Fatherland Defenders".

The defence of Andrei Vinogradov, the head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, has filed a complaint against the decision of the court to arrest him.

Khatira Imanova, who committed self-immolation in the marketplace in Baku, died before the arrival of doctors. Her death is investigated by law enforcement bodies under the article on driving to suicide.

In the case of David Khachatryan, who was convicted for the murder of his fellow soldier Lux Stepanyan, the principle of a fair trial was violated, said his advocate. In this regard, a complaint on the case was filed to the ECtHR.

A rally of residents of Pasechnaya Street was held in Sochi, which, according to organizers, brought together about 50 people. They demanded to stop the construction of multi-storey buildings, threatening their houses, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Out of the remaining influential militants in Northern Caucasus, Zalim Shebzukhov, the head of the Vilayat of Kabarda, Balkaria and Karachay, and Aslambek Vadalov, the head of the Vilayat Nokhchicho (Ichkeria), stand out, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They believe that Vadalov has much higher chances to lead the "Imarat Kavkaz" (IK), recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

Reinforced posts of policemen and special fighters are deployed every night in Grozny after rumours appeared about concentration of militants on the Chechen border, local residents report. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) explains the reinforcement by the fight against infringers of traffic rules and preparations for holidays.

The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has found extremism in the video clip posted on the Internet and calling to join the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization by the court.

The explosion of an unidentified bomb caused no injuries and no damage, said the spokesman for the regional department of the MIA.

Power agents continue the active phase of a large-scale special operation in the Dagestani Untsukul District; since morning shooting could be heard near the village of Gimry. According to the police, law enforcers pursue militants in the area of the counterterrorist operation (CTO).

Vadim Prokhorov, the advocate of Zhanna, Boris Nemtsov's daughter, has reported about a three-month extension of the inquiry.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemns and treats as unacceptable the politicization of the verdict in the case of Leyla and Arif Yunus, said Khikmet Gadjiev, the head of the press service of the MFA. In their turn, officials of the United Kingdom and the United States link the verdict with human rights activities of the Yunus spouses.

Both locals and MIA officials state normalization of situation in the Chechen village of Zakan-Yurt, where on May 30 young people blocked the local police station. According to the MIA, no complaints about policemen's actions were received.

The preliminary investigation into the case of three natives of Chechnya, accused of attacking employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) in the Moscow village of Vnukovo, is over. According to the advocate Tatiana Okushko, she refused to get acquainted with the case files, because the defence witnesses were not questioned.

In Sochi, members of the movement "Law and Order" have asked the prosecutor of the region to take steps to cancel the decision of the Mayor on making temporary dumps of the waste generated after the flooding.

The General Public Prosecutors of Armenia and Russia will have to find a compromise solution on the military prisons where Valery Permyakov will serve his term, said the Armenian lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They consider it possible that the convict will serve his sentence in the Russian territory.

When sentencing Leyla and Arif Yunus, the Baku Court ignored their health status and age. Their imprisonment terms of 8.5 and 7 years are in fact death sentences for them, their advocates assert.

Among the weapons, found at the venues of the special operations against suspected militants, conducted on July 23 and August 3 in Nalchik, investigators found the pistols stolen from the slain prosecutor Marat Tokov and GIBDD (traffic police) inspector Aslan Mashukov.

The Azerbaijani rights defender Leyla Yunus has been sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment; her husband Arif Yunus has received 7 years in prison from the court. The guilty verdict was handed down despite the appeals of international human rights organizations, which demanded to release the spouses.