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President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has rejected the information about dismissal of Alexei Vorobyov, head of the local government, but confirmed resignation of Ruslan Miziev, head of the government's office.

The main topic debated on August 23 at the RIA "Novosti" by the participants of the Moscow-Yerevan TV Bridge "Outcomes of Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Armenia" was the signing of the Russian-Armenia agreement on the rent of the Russian military base in Gyumri till 2044.

The Austrian Office of Public Prosecutor has presented a charge to three natives of Chechnya, suspected of murdering – in January 2009 in Vienna – Umar Israilov, a former security of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov.

The former commander of the "Vostok" battalion, Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev was buried today in Dubai, as reported by his brother Isa Yamadaev. Sulim's commemoration is held in the city of Gudermes.

Details of the charge presented to Suleiman Barbakadze, a citizen of Russia and Georgia and president of the "Vatan" International Society of Meskhetian Turks, arrested on July 26 in Georgia, have become known.

In protest against forced eviction and resettlement to other regions of Georgia from Tbilisi, several refugees from Abkhazia went on hunger strike near the building of the European Commission's representative office. The United Nations' High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed his regret on the occasion of the event.

The Russian party will make direct investments into construction of a new nuclear power unit in Armenia; and Russian companies will be directly engaged in the works, as Tigran Sarkisyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, told journalists.

In the morning on August 21, teams of workers started restoration works in the place of the terror act committed in central Pyatigorsk.

As stated by Sergey Shamba, head of the Abkhazian government, the authorities of Abkhazia have refused to consider the concept concerning the property rights of the Russians living in the republic.

Today in the morning, in Kizlyar, Dagestan, an attempt was committed on Vasily Naumochkin, deputy head of the city municipal formation. He was brought to local hospital with a heavy backbone wound.

On August 23, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev brought his nominee Arsen Kanokov to consideration of the parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria for approval as president. Other candidates were Alexander Merkulov, local Prime Minister, and Anuar Chechenov, local Speaker. However, experts note that that Medvedev's decision was anticipated and predictable, and there was no rivalry among the candidates.

Today, the family of Sulim Yamadaev, Hero of Russia and ex-commander of the "Vostok" (East) battalion, decided to switch off his life-supporting equipment, as a result of which Sulim died. This was announced by his brother – Isa Yamadaev.

On August 22, as a result of a fire opened on supporters of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) candidate in the Babayurt District of Dagestan one person was lost, two militiamen and two locals were wounded. With a demand to punish all those guilty over 200 persons blocked the "Kavkaz" Highway and de-blocked it only after interference of the First Vice-Premier Rizvan Kurbanov.

On August 10 or 11, on their way from Brest (Belarus) to Moscow, two natives of Northern Caucasus who live in Belgium – Ramzan Makhauri and Islam Borchashvili – disappeared. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Ukrainian seamen from the commercial ship named REF-607 have filed a claim asking to arrest their vessel. They try to get their salary debt from the ship owner in the sum of about 60,000 US dollars.

Today at night unidentified persons shelled a militia post in the Dagestan city of Derbent and wounded two local women, the local law enforcement bodies report.

The sudden hurricane that came on today in the Georgian city of Poti has damaged about 30 dwelling houses and fell trees. A special commission was set up to count up the damage caused to the city.

In the course of an armed clash with a member of an illegal armed formation (IAF) in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, a senior militia officer was lost and six more were wounded. This was reported by the Headquarters of the United Army Grouping in Northern Caucasus.

On August 20, the Military Court on Grave Crimes passed a verdict to the soldier who was in Armenian captivity. Gasanov was accused of high treason and sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment.

During the informal meeting of the heads of the member-states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Yerevan the parties have agreed to hold the next CSTO summit in December this year in Moscow, where the presidency in the organization will pass over to Belarus.