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In Azerbaijan, the report "List of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan" compiled due cooperation of activists and institutions of Azerbaijani civil society has been published. On August 8, the list was disseminated, and it included the names of 97 persons.

As stated by the Agstafa District Police Department of Azerbaijan, the 16-year-old Kyamran Imran oglu Tagiev was wounded in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict zone as a result of a ceasefire violation by the Armenian party. This is the fourth case of an Azerbaijani civilian injury on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border since early August.

In Azerbaijan, the human rights activist Emin Guseinov can be arrested at any time, and he urgently needs protection, the international human rights organization Human Rights House Foundation has reported today. It has urged the international community to "respond to the rapidly deteriorating situation in Azerbaijan."

As reported today by Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), Russian law enforcers have released five Ukrainian military, earlier arrested on suspicion of crimes against civilian population.

Aminat Umarova, a resident of Makhachkala, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today that policemen demand from her to give a DNA assay. According to the woman, this year, policemen have already visited her home three times. The woman is going to send a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan.

On August 8, the city of Grozny held a roundtable "Chechnya's Experience as Tool to Stop Bloodshed in Ukraine", organized by the "Objective" News Agency jointly with the "United Caucasian Forum" and with the support of the Public Chamber of Chechnya. The event was attended by rights defenders and public figures from Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia.

In Yerevan, in the trial in the case against Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, and other participants of the action of November 5, 2013, the defendants complained about poor custody conditions, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The assassination of Temirkhan Salikhov, the Deputy Chief of Makhachkala GIBDD (road police), can involve the same persons who fired the building of the Centre to Combat Extremism (CCE), the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Ukraine treats kidnappings and unlawful detention of Ukrainian officers in the Russian Federation as "politically motivated", and therefore it has all the legal grounds to classify these citizens of Ukraine as political prisoners, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Ukraine declares in its statement posted on the MFA's website on August 8.

On August 8, in Baku, law enforcers came with a search warrant to the office of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in Rashid Bekhbudov Street. The policemen blocked the entrances to the building; and journalists could not watch what was going on near the office, since it is located in a narrow yard.

In the evening of August 8, in Vladikavkaz, the action "Candle of Memory" dedicated to the sixth anniversary of the war in South Ossetia took place in front of the Saint George Church. People lit about 300 candles to form on the ground a phrase "Remember 08.08.08" in order to commemorate victims of the armed conflict in August 2008.

Five Ukrainian militaries from among those who got into the territory of the Rostov Region in early August, were detained on suspicion of crimes against civilians and placed in custody, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) said today.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has arrested Intigam Aliev, the head of the Legal Education Society (LES), for three months. His defence intends to appeal against it.

Today, six years after the outbreak of the warfare in South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, the capital, is gradually erasing the scars of war. According to the local Ministry of Construction, over 400 new houses have been built since, and over 800 were repaired. Some of the locals, who lost their homes, received flats in new micro-districts. However, until now, in Tskhinvali, some residents are living in ruined houses; and the problem of refugee is still painful.

Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), says that she expects the authorities to strain their efforts to investigate the circumstances of Timur Kuashev's death in Kabardino-Balkaria.

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.