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As state by the lawyer Alaif Gasanov, the rights defender Leyla Yunus is exposed moral and psychological pressure at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Azerbaijan. The Geneva-based Observatory for Protection of Rights Defenders has also reported, in its statement, Leyla's health worsening.

The presidential candidates Raul Khajimba and Aslan Bjaniya are most probable rivals at the second round of the Abkhazian presidential election, Konstantin Zatulin, the Director of the Institute of CIS Countries, told in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Arthur Babaev, the head of the Dagestan Regional Branch of the "Yabloko" Party, who on August 14 was brought to the police station together with his brothers and his wife, has stated he does not intend to file a complaint about the policemen's actions to the law enforcement bodies, since he does not believe that it is possible to find the truth.

Doctors estimate the health state of an agent of the Dagestani FSB, who has been wounded on Wednesday in Khasavyurt, as serious, but stable, an official from the FSB reports.

In Chechnya, the law enforcement bodies are being transferred to enhanced service in connection with the large-scale events to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of the birth of former Chechen leader Akhmad Kadyrov scheduled for August 23.

More than 20 countries have agreed to send their observers to the upcoming early election of the President of Abkhazia, announced Galina Stranichkina, the Chief Adviser to the Speaker of the Abkhaz Parliament.

At night on August 20, the in Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, where power agents were shelled by unidentified persons, was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, said the spokesman of the Dagestani operative headquarters.

Power supply interrupted because of a broken catenary system on the railway in the vicinities of Sochi has been restored. At present, trains leave the resort city in accordance with schedule, the press service of the RZhD (Russian Railways) reports.

On August 19, Makhachkala hosted a roundtable, where participants discussed the situation with the unit "G" of the SIZO No. 1. Dagestani advocates and human rights defenders have reported on violations of their rights in the performance of their professional duties and violations of the rights of persons kept at the SIZO.

In the territory of North Ossetia, law enforcers found a hiding with weapons, ammunition, and explosives. The hiding was found during the investigation into the case of actions of the grouping led by Aslan Gagiev, stated Vladimir Markin, the Spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Relatives of Akhmed Nurmagomedov, a resident of the Akusha District of Dagestan, who has been detained on suspicion of possession of weapon, have stated that the weapon appearing in the case had been planted during the search.

In Makhachkala, two men killed during the storm of an apartment conducted by law enforcers, have been identified as Asad Abdullaev and Magomed Yunusov, natives of Dagestan, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

UN experts in the field of human rights protection demanded from the government of Azerbaijan to stop the prosecution of rights defenders. The Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has demanded to return to the NGO its confiscated equipment and release the rights defenders.

On Tuesday, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the Sovietskiy District of Makhachkala, an employee of the operational headquarters in Dagestan reports.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov never lost his mobile phone during his visit to the ethnographic complex in the Shali District, announced his spokesman Alvi Karimov on Tuesday.

The information obtained during the investigation into the criminal case instituted on the fact of the death of Karen Petrosyan, a resident of the border village of Chinari, captured by the Azerbaijani side, gives reason to consider the version of his kidnapping from the Armenian territory.

The OSCE observers have repeatedly recorded appearance of men in military clothes at checkpoints, who are travelling in both directions individually and in groups; however, they had never seen weapons in their hands, said Paul Picard, the head of the OSCE mission in the Rostov Region.

The Azerbaijani city of Nakhichevan hosts a trilateral meeting of Defence Ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Following the negotiations, the heads of the Ministries of Defence (MoDs) decided to hold the meetings on the regular basis every six months.

Rustam Yunusov, an advocate of Ilmudin Gasanov kidnapped in Dagestan has stated that investigators fail to act and that the case materials may be intentionally lost.