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This morning, Temirkhan Salikhov, the Deputy Chief of the Makhachkala Road Police (known as GIBDD), was shot dead in the yard of his house. Investigators associate the murder with his official activities and believe that members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) could be involved in the crime, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On August 7, South Ossetia began commemorative events on the sixth anniversary of the 2008 conflict. In the morning on August 7, they laid wreaths to the Worship Cross, next to the barracks of the Russian peacekeeping battalion, which were burned down in August 2008.

On August 7, Niyarkhan Gasanova, the mother of Ilmudin Gasanov, a resident of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on June 20, appealed to Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the Russian FSB. The woman asked for help in finding her son.

On August 7, in Yerevan, local Yazidis held an action in front of the building of the Armenian Government with a demand to influence the situation faced by the members of this ethnic group in Iraq. Aziz Tamoyan, the leader of the Union of Yazidis of Armenia, demanded that President Serzh Sargsyan drew the attention of international organizations to the situation of Yazidis in Iraq.

On August 7, other 48 soldiers, who had entered the territory of Russia, were sent to Ukraine, said Vasily Malaev, the Spokesperson of the Border Guard Service of the Russian FSB for the Rostov Region.

On August 7, near one of the camps for citizens who had arrived from Ukraine, set up near the border checkpoint "Gukovo" in the Rostov Region, an object resembling an improvised explosive device (IED) was detected, the "Interfax" reports with reference to a source from law enforcement bodies.

Today, the capital of Armenia has hosted a march in support of the arrested Armenian businessman Levon Airapetyan. More than 300 persons demanded change his freedom restriction measure and to release him from custody, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Valery Khatazhukov, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has asked today Yuri Kokov, the Acting Head of the KBR, to help in legalizing the status of the Syrian Circassians, who stay in the territory of the Russian Federation.

Advocate Sapiyat Magomedova has claimed the arbitrariness of investigators with regard to Rashid Magomedov detained in Dagestan, and she filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office and the Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

As stated by Andrei Lysenko, the spokesman of the National Security and Defence Council (NSDC) of Ukraine, 46 militaries – 18 officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and 28 border guard officers – are still kept by force in the territory of Rostov Region of the Russian Federation. According to his story, Russian investigators try "to knock out confessions from Ukrainian officers of the fact that they had deliberately shelled the territory of Russia."

The advocate of Ruslan Nasirli, member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was arrested in the administrative order, reports that he is not allowed to meet his client. The advocate finds it illegal and intends to appeal against Nasirli's arrest.

Today is exactly 15 years after the launch of an armed aggression against Dagestan undertaken on August 7, 1999, when militants – Wahhabis – invaded Dagestan from Chechnya. Today, Dagestan is commemorating the victims of those tragic events. The MPs of the Russian State Duma have promised in the near future to address the issue of the status of Dagestani militias, who participated in the warfare in Dagestan in 1999.

Since August 3, units of volunteers recruited from veterans of the Karabakh war are on combat duty jointly with the Defence Army on the contact line with Azerbaijan, said Eduard Khachatryan, the head of the office of the "Union of Azamartiks (Warriors-Liberators) of Artsakh".

In Yerevan, during the court hearing of the case against participants of the protest action held at Freedom Square on November 5, 2013, one of the policemen, who was recognized to be a victim, has admitted that he wore civilian clothes while on duty during the protest action. Several witnesses questioned by the court testified that plain-clothed policemen provoked a scuffle.

A 13-year-old boy was wounded as a result of shelling the village of Myulkyulyu located in the Tovuz District. A 10-year-old boy was wounded in the village of Kokhne Gishlag of the Agstafa District, Azerbaijani sources reported on August 6.

The capital of Georgia hosted an action of condemnation of mass persecution and oppression of Yazidis in the Sinjar District in northern Iraq. The event was organized by the NGO "House of Yazidis of Georgia" and was held on August 6 in front of the UN Office in Tbilisi, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Dagestan, advocate Sapiyat Magomedova and her client Rashid Magomedov are being kept without any legal grounds at the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division). This was reported by the advocate herself. In their turn, ROVD agents assert that nobody is preventing Sapiyat Magomedova from leaving the ROVD.

In Azerbaijan, independent institutions of civil society are facing problems in carrying out their activities in connection with the arrests of their accounts and inspections conducted by law enforcement and tax authorities, activists of several NGOs told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Fatima Kumykova, the wife of Riziuan Kamgotov, a resident of the village of Lechinkay, Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), prosecuted for storing narcotics and explosives, sent a letter to Yuri Kokov, the Acting Head of the KBR, stating that the criminal case against her husband was unjustified.

In Dagestan, the police have put four alleged killers of Aitemir Salimgereev, the former head of the Kizilyurt GOVD (City Interior Division), on the wanted list.