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During the week from August 10 to 16, 2020, no casualties or victims were recorded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The tightening of the mask-wearing regime has led to a 40 percent decrease in the number of people infected with coronavirus in Chechnya, the republic's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) reported on August 15. Instagram users and local residents have ridiculed this statement, pointing out that the mask regime in Chechnya is only formally observed.

In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, five teenagers were detained who had planned attacks on policemen, law enforcers have reported.

The commentators to Karen Shainyan's documentary "Chechen War against LGBT" have treated the persecution methods of gays and lesbians in Chechnya as the wildest Middle Ages. The problems of film heroes need maximum publicity, spectators have pointed out.

Law enforcers have blocked a residential area near the Mount Tarki-Tau and began a special operation in the forest. Instagram users are concerned that civilians may perish there, as happened with the Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers.

Azerbaijani citizens, Elmar Musaev and Taral Giyasov, have stated that they have been deceived when they signed confessions in the case of protests in the tent camp in Kullar. Seven out of ten accused have been left in custody.

In August 1992, the Georgian society was busy with internal confrontation and did not immediately realize the ethnic background of the conflict in Abkhazia, said Paata Zakareishvili, an ex-minister for reconciliation. The feeling of war was in the air, but its start was still a surprise, the eyewitness has recalled.

Seven people, beaten up by law enforcers in Mozdok, have met Tamerlan Tsgoev, the Ombudsperson in North Ossetia. Law enforcers and local authorities fail to react to complaints of torture, the victim's advocate has stated.

After the conflict in Ekazhevo, claims had been put forward against the former law enforcer shot dead in the Nazran District of Ingushetia. He had provided his car to employees of Centre "E"; and the detained conflict participants were taken away in the car, which caused claims from members of their vird (a sort of praying community), fellow villagers of the casualty believe.

Despite the resonance, the apologies of teenagers to Khabib Nurmagomedov will have no consequences for them, says Mikhail Roschin. However, the procedure itself is humiliating, said Alexei Malashenko.

Law enforcers have gathered offenders in the building of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) and recorded a "prophylactic" conversation with them on video. Such videos serve as reports to the authorities, local residents have noted.

After the Friday (August 14) namaz (prayer), several dozen law enforcers stopped the cars of visitors of the Makhachkala "Tangim" Mosque and examined their documents.

Law enforcers have detained a 16-year-old resident of the village of Mesker-Yurt in the Shali District. According to the boy's relatives, the reason was in his comments he posted in social networks.

Investigators have put three residents of the Dagestani city of Derbent on the wanted list after they disappeared in Grozny in winter. A criminal case was initiated under the article of "Murder of two or more persons."

Tural Atakishiev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), came to the police on a summon, but was arrested under the pretext of disobeying law enforcers, his advocate has stated.

Yuri Karaev, a native of North Ossetia, now the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Belarus, has expressed his regret that "random people" had suffered during the dispersal of protests. Social network users were outraged by Karaev's words and the actions of his subordinates.

Three people have been hospitalized in Makhachkala following a firearm conflict, the police said.

An official religious explanation on the prohibition of female circumcision in Islam will significantly reduce this practice in Dagestan. The decision of the republic's Muftiate to issue such a Fatwa was the result of a campaign to condemn mutilation surgeries, rights defenders assert.

In Dagestan, a court mitigated the pre-trial restriction measure to Azerbaijani citizen Anvar Muradov, who was arrested after clashes in a camp on the border. Anvar Muradov insists that he was not throwing stones at law enforcers.

In Austria, the police detained six natives of Chechnya after complaints from their compatriots about beatings for posting photos in swimsuits or dating non-Chechens.