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Russia delivered to the UN an 80-page report claiming that Syrian rebels used sarin gas in a deadly attack near Aleppo in March. During a special operation in southern Chechnya yesterday, security forces reportedly killed Rustam Saliev, a.k.a. Abu-Muslim, a wanted Caucasus Emirate commander in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district. The head of Russia's top mixed martial arts club was killed in Dagestan. A journalist who had recently criticized local authorities in articles on bombings and shootings in Dagestan was assassinated near Makhachkala.