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In Kabardino-Balkaria, Rustam Guchapshev, a resident of the village of Dugulubgei of the Baksan District, claims that today he was followed, and therefore, he has appealed to law enforcement agencies and human rights defenders, since he fears of kidnapping.

According to Sergey Semushin, the lawyer of the Volgograd regional public organization "Mothers' Law", in Volgograd, leaflets entitled "Wanted", pasted on poles, with details of the recruits and their parents violate the Federal Law "On Personal Data". The Volgograd police refute any involvement in the appearance of those announcements.

In Stavropol, as a result of the shooting at the "Yuzhny" (Southern) marketplace, 5 persons were brought to the city hospital No. 4. This was reported by the hospital's front desk. One more wounded person was delivered to the regional hospital. Automatic weapons were used in the shooting. Eyewitnesses state that the attackers called themselves the "polar bears".

The Judicial Chamber for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the verdict against 24-year-old Victor Dvorakovskiy and Vladimir Skirko, his 25-year-old accomplice, residents of the Stavropol Territory, accused of preparing a terror act and of extremism. This was reported today by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Judge Gasan Akhmedov, considered the appeal of Shakhin Gasanli, the head of the organizational division of the People's Front of Azerbaijan on conditional early relief (CER). Gasanli and his lawyer intend to challenge the refusal of CER at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

Rainfall, which caused flooding in the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory, left residents of several villages without electricity. About 11,000 persons have no electricity. Three out of four victims of the flooding in the village of Novomikhailovsky have been already identified. The village of Defanovka is also in the area of the flooding.

In the Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, rainfall with large hail affected local residents, involved in gardening, and tore roofs off houses in two dwelling settlements. This was reported by Valery Bibilov, Deputy Chief of the district administration.

At the forthcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia, the leading political parties will provide for quotas for women, which were approved legislatively on recommendation of the Venice Commission.

At the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where earlier Albert Khubiev, 24, sewed up his mouth and went on hunger strike, he stopped his protest action.

The Chechen native Adam Osmaev, the main suspect in the case of plotting an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin, has filed an application for political asylum in Ukraine.

Magomed Kazimagomedov, the head of the rural settlement Lyakhlya in Dagestan, was killed by gunfire, said the spokesman for the Investigatory Committee for Dagestan of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Armenia, according to the national Central Election Commission (CEC), one of the candidates for the Mayor of Gyumri – the non-partisan Rafael Asatryan – has announced his withdrawal. The four other candidates to be voted for on September 9 continue their race.

The Volgograd regional public organization "Mothers' Law" asks law enforcement agencies to clear out the circumstances of public disclosure by the Military Commissariat of personal data of recruits and their parents, and give a legal assessment of these facts.

An oil spillage from old depreciated pipes happened in the township of Bartskhana in Batumi. Special services are now busy in the place of spillage into the Bartskhana River.

On August 20, in the Georgian city of Rustavi, region of Kvemo-Kartli, heavy rains, accompanied by gusty wind, led to flooding of streets and house basements. Fortunately, nobody was killed or wounded.

On August 21, the custody term of Ruslan Ismailov, detained on suspicion of committing a terror act and kept in SIZO-1 of Makhachkala, was extended by two months. His advocate Gadjimurad Izmailov complains that he is unable to meet his client, as SIZO workers took away the defender's ID card.

The terror act at the funeral of the policeman in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia was organized by Dokku Umarov, the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov said today.

Employees of the company "Spetsstroy", who are at forced vacations for about a year, failed to receive any debts or vacation allowances. The money was paid only to drivers of KAMAZ trucks involved in cleaning the Chernorechensky pond in the Zavodskoy District of Grozny.

Advocates of two defendants in the case of the terror act at the "Domodedovo" Airport, which was began on 20 August at the Moscow Regional Court, intend to appeal against the decision of the court to hold a closed trial. According to Vladimir Kocharyan, his client Ilez Yandiev is innocent of the incriminated crimes.

Sheikhmagomed Magomedkerimov, 21, a resident of Derbent, was detained by policemen of the GOVD (City Interior Division); his whereabouts is still unknown, said his father Zainudin Magomedkerimov.