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On August 28, the Day of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili pardoned 168 prisoners.

In Ingushetia, during a special operation, a police officer, born in 1980, was wounded in his chest; he was hospitalized in grave condition, said a spokesman for the regional department of the FSB.

The whereabouts of Ruslanbek Agiev, a resident of Malgobek and an employee of the Ingush MIA, who disappeared on August 23, remains unknown, said his father Aslan Agiev.

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, chaired by Judge Alovsat Abbasov, has started a preliminary hearing on the case of 22 citizens of Azerbaijan, accused of treason, espionage and other crimes.

The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has opposed the revision of the existing administrative Chechen-Ingush border.

On August 28, the village hospital resumed its work in the village of Novomikhailovsky affected by the flood. It was closed for reconstruction on August 22. This morning, it already gave birth to two newborns, said the public health department of the Tuapse District.

Three local residents in Malgobek district of Ingushetia perished as a result of skirmishes, information about two more lost persons is currently being verified, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports. Battles are going on in Malgobek and the neighbouring settlement of Sagopshi.

A group of children who had a rest in Kobuleti on invitation of a Georgian non-governmental organization (NGO) the “Caucasus Foundation” returned from Georgia. All in all Georgia received 30 refugees’ children, Alihan Akhilgov, Head of foundation “Aid to deported peoples”, reported.

The advocates for the successor of the military doctor Vage Avetyan, who died after a fight in the "Harsnaqar" Restaurant in Yerevan, state their work is hampered and the case initiated on the fact of Avetyan's death by the Central Investigatory Department of the Armenian Police is considered with violations.

Today, the court has ruled to arrest Rustam Evloev, an inspector of the road-and-post-service (known as DPS) for the Nazran District of Ingushetia, who had been kidnapped, according to his relatives, by unidentified armed people in Chechnya, for two months.

Ilya Gachegov from St Petersburg, a participant of the motor rally "White Stream" has handcuffed himself to the building of the MIA Department for the Astrakhan Region in support of the convicted performers of the punk prayer from the "Pussy Riot" group at Christ the Saviour Cathedral.

At 12:10 a.m. Moscow time, near the "Fabrichny Marketplace" in the centre of Nazran, an improvised explosive device (IED) was triggered. The blast injured three people; one of them is in critical condition, said the Ingush Central Republic's Clinical Hospital.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the appeal of the advocates of Vladimir Zhamborov, an official from Kabardino-Balkaria, who asked to consider their complaint about the need for action to stop violations committed against him, and release him from custody, in the priority order, said Ruslan Koblev, one of Zhamborov's advocates.

Political party “Way of Georgia” abandons participation in the election of the Georgian Parliament in favour of Bidzina Ivanishvili’s oppositional coalition “The Georgian Dream”. This was the party’s statement dated August, 27.

Shamil Abdurashidov’s relatives who came out to a meeting in Makhachkala were received by Public prosecutor’s office of Dagestan. Public prosecutor on duty assured that he would do his best to establish the kidnapped man’s location, Shamil’s aunt Madina Abdurashidova reported.

Murat Abazov kidnapped together with his cousin Arthur Abazov in the settlement of Dygulybgey, Baksan district of Kabardino-Balkaria, is released, his father Edward Abazov reported. Arthur is still kept in Baksan district Department of Interior Affairs where he is being interrogated about participation in an assault at law enforcement personnel.

55 affected children have been discharged from the hospital unit of the all-Russian children's centre "Orlyonok"; but 50 more children-tourists continue their treatment, said Valery Klindukhov, the head of the "Rospotrebnadzor" of the Krasnodar Territory.

As announced by the spokesman of the Chief Department of the Russian MIA for the Krasnodar Territory, a criminal case has been opened against Suren Gazaryan, an activist of the NGO "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", who is suspected of a threat to murder. On September 4, Gazaryan must appear at the police for questioning.

Journalist Faramaz Allahverdiev sentenced to 4,5 years of custody in Azerbaijan has been on a hunger strike since the day of announcement of the verdict demanding immediate release, his brother Gurban Allahverdiev told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent today.

Accommodation of repatriates from Syria has been suspended in Kabardino-Balkaria, as the quota has been exhausted, Akhmed Stash, the head of the public organization "Peryt", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, now his organization redirects repatriates to Adygea and Karachay-Cherkessia.