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A criminal case has been opened in Chechnya by the demand of the Prosecutor's Office into the beating of a resident of the Grozny District committed in March by a group of unidentified persons, including, according to preliminary data, a policeman. Earlier, law enforcers rejected the victim's demand to investigate the incident.

So far, members of the movement "Arise, Armenia!" are in Republic Square, where they ended today their three-day picket against the rise of electricity tariff.

A protest action in front of the building of the Armenian government is continued by about 100 former and current employees of the "Nairit" Factory. The protesters, who demand immediate repayment of their salary debts, began a sit-in strike.

The participants of the press conference in Makhachkala, convoked in support of Andrei Vinogradov, the head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan, and Sagid Murtazaliev, the head of the republic's branch of the Russian Pension Fund (RPF), have treated the actions of power agents as a political order.

A chewing gum, which is copying the famous brand "Love Is" but adjusted for Muslim values, is manufactured by the "Arabian Secrets" Company, which has its representative office in Dagestan. Opinions about the new product have split among representatives of secular and religious circles.

North Ossetia has initiated a criminal investigation into the mass brawl at the Beslan Airport "Vladikavkaz", which resulted in grave traumas of two natives of Ingushetia.

A shootout of power agents with alleged militants occurred in the evening on July 28 in the outskirt of the villages of Ilaskhan-Yurt and Mairtup of the Chechen Republic and lasted for about an hour. There are no victims among civilians.

Activists of "Arise, Armenia!" have blocked Vazgen Sargsyan Street leading to the Republic Square, but policemen squeezed them off the roadway.

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.