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To assist conscripts, the Ingush authorities will create the Committee of Soldiers' Fathers (CSF). However, according to rights defenders, the organization in its activities should not duplicate the functions of the existing public institutions.

Dagestani advocates report on the existence of a special unit "G" in the territory of the SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) of Makhachkala, to where defenders' access is hindered and where prisoners' rights are violated.

On Thursday, Gyunai Ismailova, a lawyer of the Institute of Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was interrogated by investigators from the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office as a witness in connection with a criminal case against a number of local and foreign NGOs.

The ban on foreign goods imports to Russia can lead to shortages of certain food products, such as beef. This opinion has been expressed by Natalia Zubarevich, Professor of Russian Economic and Social Geography from the Moscow State University (MSU).

Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, sentenced on charges of infliction of damage to the fence around the land plot known as "summer cottage" Alexander Tkachov, Krasnodar Governor, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and filed a complaint about violation of freedom of speech.

In a number of regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), police found hidings with a large number of weapons, ammunition and explosives belonging to members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), the Department for the NCFD of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

Denga Djavatkhanov, a staff member of the Kizilyurt Bar Association, has stated that he was detained and unlawfully kept by force for three days by law enforcers. The Kizilyurt police do not confirm the detention of Denga Djavatkhanov.

Combatants from Chechnya, who are fighting on the side of the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics, have asked leaders of the antiterrorist operation (ATO) in Ukraine to provide them with the possibility to leave the combat zone, the ATO press centre reports.

On August 12-13, the Azerbaijani armed forces violated the ceasefire on the contact line for about 55 times, the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh reports. In its turn, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accused the opposing side of violation of the truce.

In Azerbaijan, the court has arrested Murad Adilov, an of the activist Sabirabad district organization of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), suspected of illegal possession and sale of drugs.

In Azerbaijan, a Shiite theologian Talekh Bagirzade, who is serving his two-year imprisonment on earlier charge, has been sentenced on new charge of possessing prohibited items in the SIZO (pre-trial prison). The term of imprisonment of Talekh Bagirzade has been extended for four months.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has expressed its concern about the deterioration in health state of Leyla Yunus, who was arrested in Azerbaijan.

In Azerbaijan, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint filed by the human rights defender Intigam Aliev about his arrest and left him in custody. The defence does not agree with the BCA's decision and intends to file a motion to change the pre-trial restriction measure to home arrest.

Yuri Kokov, the acting head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has announced engaging the best professionals in investigation into the death of Timur Kuashev, a journalist and a social activist.

Batyr Pukhaev, a South Ossetian businessman, who is kept together with his brother Igor at the Tskhinvali IVS (temporary detention facility) on charges of treason and an attempt of coup d'etat, has stopped his two-week hunger strike for health reasons.

In the course of special operations conducted in Northern Caucasus this year, law enforcers have eliminated 158 active militants, including 25 militants' leaders. This was reported by Alexander Bortnikov, the Chairman of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

In Georgia, former President Mikhail Saakashvili is charged with embezzlement of budget funds amounting to more than 8.8 million laris (more than 5 million US dollars), the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office reports.

In Dagestan, Police Lieutenant Colonel Sergey Kislitsky, who was dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for driving in state of alcoholic intoxication, appealed to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office to investigate the circumstances that led to his dismissal.

In the Sarajevo Airport, the police have arrested Khabib Khabibov, included in the international wanted list, the "Kommersant" reports with reference to a source from the law enforcement bodies. The Russian investigating authorities treat him as active militant and accuse him of promoting terrorism.

The Tlyarata District Court has sentenced Akhmed Akhmedov, a resident of the village of Kitlyarata of the Tsuntin District, to two years of imprisonment in a penal colony for involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF), the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan reports.