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On August 5, in Sochi, Oleg Rubezhansky, the publisher of the newspaper "Mestnaya" (Local), was handed in the resolution to terminate criminal proceedings against him as a result of the act on amnesty.

On August 5, advocates of Nikolai Yarst filed a complaint to the judicial board on criminal cases of the Krasnodar Regional Court against the decision to extend the home arrest of the journalist.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has sent to the court the case opened after the fire that occurred in April in "Grozny-City". The charge is brought against Magomed-Amin Amirov, a 47-year-old mechanic of the "UK Genstroy".

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal of the defence of the theologian Talekh Bagirzade against the extension of his arrest.

A group of Muslim from Kislovodsk plans to appeal at higher instances against the decision of the Territorial Court to demolish two mosques in the villages of Belorechensky and Industriya, said Aslan Shamanov, the Imam of Kislovodsk.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) of Armenia has dismissed the motion to change the measure of freedom restraint of Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC).

Activists of the opposition treat the shift of the voting day to an earlier date as illegal and unjustified, and caused by a possible intention of the authorities to exclude Rustam Ibragimbekov from the race.

In Makhachkala, the second improvised explosive device (IED) installed near the shop "Kristall" (Crystal), was a dummy. This was reported by a source in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

In the city of Nevinnomyssk of the Stavropol Territory, a detainee died in a ward of a detention facility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). He was serving his 15-day administrative arrest.

In Georgia, 116 prisoners were granted conditional early relief (CER). This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance.

According to the specified information, seven persons got minor cut injuries in the explosion in a shop located in the centre of Makhachkala. The number of victims has reached nine persons, including two persons who got contused at the moment of the explosion.

According to the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot", the murder of Ilyas Ilyasov, Imam and theologian, committed in Makhachkala, became the twelfth case of violent death of Islamic religious leaders in Northern Caucasus during 2012 and 2013.

Activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" demanded to stop the construction of an entertainment facility that was started on August 2 in the "Bolshoy Utrish" Reserve.

In the KrasnodarTerritory, the court found members of the Gelendzhik Human Rights Centre (GHRC) guilty in the case of fraud and sentenced them to 8-13 years of imprisonment.

Father of anaesthesiologist Marat Gunashev, suspected of the murder of the chief of the Makhachkala Police, has asked human rights defenders to provide assistance in investigating his son's case and bringing it to trial.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source from the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the ICRF that an Imam of a Makhachkala mosque was killed tonight in the course of shelling; his driver was wounded.

The Baku police have prevented a protest action of women-journalists demanding to stop blackmailing and interfering into the privacy of their colleague Khadidja Ismailova, an employee of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty. All the participants of the action and the journalists who covered it were detained by the police.

The theologian Javid Mamedov is back at large in Azerbaijan, said Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "In Support of Democracy". Mamedov was detained on October 19, 2012, and accused of organizing a believers' action in defence of the religious hijab.

Sochi residents express their outrage with the poor quality of repairs of roads, pavements and house-adjoining territories. In particular, in the Tsentralny District, the streets named after Gorky, Voikov, Pervimaiskaya, Sebastopol, Titov, Tuapse, Dagomys, Kubanskaya, Theatrical and Ordzhonikidze, and Kurortny Avenue remained unrepaired.

On August 4, a number of European cities will hold actions in support of Ales Bialiatski, the head of the human rights centre "Viasna" and Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), who was sentenced in Belarus.