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Under protection of Chechen policemen, workers from Chechnya moved deep into the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, while continuing building the road, activists asserts. Residents of Ingushetia are outraged that the authorities left these actions without reaction, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, has stated.

Policemen have offered teachers to give negative characteristics to the participants in the recent attacks on law enforcers, a source said. The Chechnya's Minister of Information has refuted the data on any pressure exerted on the families of assassinated teenagers.

Family members of the participants in the attack on policemen on August 20 have left Shali under the pressure of law enforcers, local residents said. According to the estimates of the "Caucasian Knot", this is the sixth case during two years, when relatives of members of the underground and the people, whom the authorities labelled as militants, were forced to leave their home.

Young people were detained after the appearance in the outskirts of the village of Koshkeldy of a flag of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court. Kheda Saratova, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya, has reported that young people were released.

Azamat Baiduev, a resident of Chechnya, who was declared kidnapped after being deported to Russia from Poland, is suspected of links with Syrian militants, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

In the city of Argun, law enforcers have tortured 40 detainees trying to knock confessions out of them, sources assert. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya calls this information a lie.

One person was killed and two more were wounded in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 27 to September 2, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Russia can ignore the demands of 15 OSCE member states to report within a ten-day period on measures taken to protect human rights in Chechnya, note Russian rights defenders.

Day of Knowledge and anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; actions in Southern Russia against the pension reform after the President Putin's proposals; presentation of an updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan; emergency landing of a passenger aircraft in Sochi; claim of 15 OSCE member states on the violations of human rights in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 27-September 2, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A new Islamic judge (Qadi) has been appointed in the Shali District of Chechnya; the teens who committed a series of attacks on policemen are natives of this district. Local residents believe that this appointment is associated with the tightening of authorities' control over the youth and preparation for the deportation of attackers' relatives from Chechnya.

Russia is unwilling or unable to solve the problem of human rights violations in Chechnya, announced 15 member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and demanded from the Russian authorities to report within ten days on the measures taken.

Ramzan Edilov, a fellow villager of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has been appointed the head of the department for private security of the National Guard of Russia in Chechnya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by an official of the National Guard of Russia on August 30.

The authorities of Chechnya have reported an extensive programme to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Grozny. The city expects the arrival of political and public figures from different countries of the world, pop stars, and well-known athletes, an official of the Mayoralty reported.