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To resolve the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, no peacekeeping forces are needed, stated Movses Akopyan, the Defence Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, at the meeting with journalists held in Stepanakert on August 19.

In North Ossetia, a grenade was thrown to the yard of the house belonging to the deputy chief of the village police station, stated a source from the law enforcement bodies.

On August 22, after the end of Friday prayer at one of the mosques in Derbent, law enforcers detained 40-60 mosque-goers, eyewitnesses of the incident report. Two buses took the detainees to the Derbent GOVD (City Interior Division).

During the first TV debates held in Abkhazia and attended by all presidential candidates, participants have failed to raise questions of interest for voters, believes Inal Khashig, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chegemskaya Pravda".

Malina (Amina) Sadakhanova, a resident of Grozny, who study Arabic and teaches religion in one of the Chechen medreses, had been forcibly kept by law enforcers during three days, sources in Chechnya report. According to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the young woman has been severely beaten.

On Friday, in Sukhumi, a car belonging to Izida Chaniya, an editor of the newspaper "Nuzhnaya Gazeta" (Needed Newspaper), has been shelled by unidentified persons, reported Raul Lolua, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has expressed her concern over the attacks on Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist and a human rights defender, in Nakhichevan. She called on the Azerbaijani authorities to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the incident.

On Friday, the state of emergency has been lifted in the aul (village) of Novokuvinsk of the Adyge-Khabl District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), and gas supply has been restored, stated Mukhadin Darmilov, the head of the Department for Civil Defence and Emergencies of the district administration.

The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported on preliminary identification of two suspected militants killed during the special operation in Khasavyurt.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) chaired by Judge Aflatun Gasymov has held the preliminary court hearing on the complaint lodged by Anar Mamedli, the head of the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training (CEMDT), and activists Bashir Suleimanly and Elnur Mamedov.

On August 21, in parts of the Grozny city territory, Chechen law enforcers checked passport regime, stated local residents. The law enforcement bodies called the checks as "preventive actions" on the eve of large-scale celebrations.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has completed the questioning of defence witnesses in the case against Timur Tangiev. At the last moment, many witnesses refused to go to court to testify.

Raul Khadjimba and Aslan Bzhaniya, Abkhaz presidential candidates, use all possible information platforms for their election campaign. According to their election offices, the presidential candidates meet no obstacles during campaigning.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has scheduled for September 24 the consideration of the cassation appeal filed by the Prosecutor's Office against the sentence of Evgeny Vitishko, a staff member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

The Orichi District Court of the Kirov Region of Russia has begun studying the written evidence in the criminal case about an attempt of a terror act at the "Maradykovsky" chemical weapons factory, in which two natives of Dagestan are the figurants.

Tatiana Kryuchkina, an accountant of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), has been questioned as a witness in the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan in connection with the criminal case against a number of local and foreign NGOs.

The first trucks with the Russian humanitarian aid to residents of Eastern Ukraine have entered the check line of the "Donetsk" checkpoint of the Millerovo customs, The Ukrainian customs officers have begun clearing the cargos, the Southern Customs Administration of the Russian Federation has informed.

In Azerbaijan, the court has started consideration on the merits of the criminal case against Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "Promoting Democracy". After the pronouncement of the indictment, the defendant has delivered speech, in which he denied the charges.

On the day of opening of the ethnographic complex "Shira-Yurt", the large-scale questioning of Chechen residents by the policemen, who were searching for the mobile phone of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, can be legally justified in case if the law enforcers believed that the mobile phone could have been stolen, says advocate Igor Trunov.

Larisa Alaverdyan, the head of the public organization "Against Legal Arbitrariness", and Marina Grigoryan, the organizer of the project "Ordinary Genocide", have started collecting written appeals to international organizations calling for an investigation into the cause of death of Armenian citizen Karen Petrosyan captured in Azerbaijan.