In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, the search for a young man who drowned in the Irganai Reservoir continues for the fourth day. The Republic's Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia reported on the progress of the rescue operation.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has revoked the Russian citizenship of eight people whom the agency considers a threat to national security. They include residents of Adygea and Stavropol Region, as well as two people from the South Caucasus. In a statement published on August 29, the FSB said the decisions were made jointly with the Interior Ministry under the law “On Citizenship of the Russian Federation.”

The Chechen Republic retained its first place among Russian regions with the lowest smoking prevalence. Moreover, the rate in the republic has decreased even further since the beginning of the year.

Boris Ebzeev, the former head of Karachay-Cherkessia, a Constitutional Court judge and a longtime member of Russia’s Central Election Commission, died this week at the age of 76. His political career spanned several different eras of Russian rule — from the establishment of constitutional justice in the early 1990s to Vladimir Putin’s political system of centralized power. The Russian-Chechen war holds a special place in his biography: in 1995, Ebzeev disagreed with the majority of the Constitutional Court, which ruled that the actions of the Russian authorities in Chechnya were lawful. Twenty-five years later, he was already a member of the Central Election Commission when Vladimir Putin was “resetting” the Constitution to allow himself to run for president again.

On August 24, a resident of Chechnya performed Muslim prayers on a fenced-off section of road in Astrakhan where road-marking work was being carried out. On August 26, a video of the prayer appeared on local social media, after which FSB and police officers identified the Muslim man.

A search and rescue operation on the Sunzha River has been completed in the Gudermes District of Chechnya. Rescuers have recovered the body of a second person who was in a car that fell into the river on the evening of August 24.

Several people have been detained in Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria on terrorism charges, the Russian Federal Security Service reported. The agency provided no evidence of the detainees' guilt.

Over 113,000 people and over 33,000 vehicles crossed the Russian-Georgian border through the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint in a week, the North Ossetia head of state's press service reported, citing Irbek Tomayev, Deputy Prime Minister of the republic.