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This year, residents of Chechnya have noted a significant decrease of the trade in sacrificial animals on the eve of Eid al-Adha (Kurban-Bairam) holiday. During collective prayers in mosques, it is prescribed to observe social distance and the mask regime, the Chechen Muftiate has stated.

Because the border is closed due to the pandemic, residents of Abkhazia cannot receive medical care in Russian hospitals; and some have lost their incomes and need authorities' support. This was stated by the participants of the rally held in the city of Gagra.

At the upcoming census, the Circassians living in Russia should register themselves as a single nation, since they have a common language and one culture, Beslan Khagazhei and Aslan Beshtoev, activists of Circassian organizations in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has stated. Circassians are territorially divided, and the absence of a single name does not allow perceiving them as a single nation, Madina Khakuasheva, a philologist, believes.

There were clashes of Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Moscow, but this scale was observed for the first time, said Alexander Verkhovsky, the director of the "Sova" Information and Analytical Centre, who believes that someone managed the conflict. They do not want to fight either in Armenia or in Azerbaijan, but the longer the conflict lasts, the more grievances accumulate, said Alexei Simonov, a human rights defender.

Turkey's support for Azerbaijan has contributed to the cessation of fighting with Armenia, but the Armenian-Russian exercises give reason suggesting a possible new wave of conflict, Uzeir Djafarov, the head of the NGO "Military Journalists", believes.

The quarantine zone in Azerbaijan contains 250 people brought out of Dagestan on July 28. Azer Mamedov, a camp resident, said about vacant places; and Avtandil Mamedli, an activist, called the reason for this "poor governance in Azerbaijan."

There are no active battles on the contact line of Armenian-Azerbaijani troops in the Tavush direction, but the situation remains tense. A new conflict can occur on any border section, including with Nagorno-Karabakh, experts believe.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan pronounced a decision to extend for another month the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), as well as Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, who were involved as defendants in a case on financing of terrorism.

In South Ossetia, border guards prevented an attempt to cross the border committed by a Georgian group of secret-service agents, the KGB of South Ossetia reported. The South-Ossetian KGB suggests that the actions of the Georgian law enforcement bodies create a threat of direct clashes.

In Ingushetia, when a fighter of the National Guard of Russia was attacked, there was a young woman in his car, and she managed to flee, sources from the law enforcement bodies reported.

Employees of the public sector and law enforcement bodies continue to participate in actions of unity with the family of Ramzan Kadyrov, who fell under the US sanctions. People are forced to participate in those actions, which are being held throughout Chechnya, Instagram users suggest.

Law enforcers believe that the attackers on a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) serviceman committed in the Nazran District are connected with extremist organizations.

A resident of Chechnya went to Syria and joined militants there, investigators have suggested.

During the last 24 hours the positions of Azerbaijani Army stationed in the villages near the Armenian border and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 65 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated. In its turn, today, the Armenian MoD has counted 22 shelling attacks of its positions.

The shelling of the car of a "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) serviceman committed in the village of Yandare was preceded by three attacks on law enforcers in the Nazran District this year.

Zamid Chalaev, the commander of the A. Kadyrov special purpose regiment, while congratulating his colleague on his birthday in social networks, said that the officer had fought in Ukraine, South Ossetia, Libya and Syria. Instagram users drew attention to the contradictions of Ramzan Kadyrov's official position with the words of the regiment commander.

A law enforcer has received wounds and died as a result of shelling of his car in the Nazran District, an Ingush law enforcement source has reported.

Mamed Ibragim, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is charged under four articles in connection with the action held at night on July 15 in Baku. The court arrested him for four months. The PFPA treats the charges as politically motivated.

Out of more than 30 natives of North Ossetia who joined the "Islamic State" (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), most lived in a village where it was difficult to find any job, noted Vyacheslav Bitarov, the leader of the region.

In Dagestan, women are subjected to harassment and threats when they openly agree with the ideas of feminism, belong to "informal communities," or complain about violence and blackmail, journalist Svetlana Anokhina reports.