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The European Court of Human Rights has announced that the Russian authorities should provide the information concerning whether Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, was tortured after his detention in 2014 and whether the criminal proceedings against him were politically motivated.

During the week from September 28 to October 4, 2020, no events related to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were recorded; there were no casualties or wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other sources.

The Urus-Martan ROVD (District Interior Division) of Chechnya has circulated a record of a talk with those detained for using narcotic drugs and driving while intoxicated. The public reprimand and invitation of violators' relatives to record prophylactic conversations caused misunderstanding among Instagram users.

Six children suffered at shelling of the city of Ganja; one teenager perished, the Azeri General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated. Armenian missiles hit residential buildings; people are left homeless, residents of the shelled border areas inform.

Hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone; completion of the investigation into the murder of journalist Khadjimurad Kamalov in Dagestan; transfer to court of the case against leaders of the protests in Ingushetia; movement of members of the People's Khural of Kalmykia against republic's leader Batu Khasikov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 28-October 4, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Armenian authorities have accused Turkey of involvement in the shelling of settlements in Nagorno-Karabakh and asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to react to this. The Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has cited data on the use of banned cluster shells by Azerbaijan.

The video stating that Chechens have gone to fight in Nagorno-Karabakh looks unconvincing, some social network users have pointed out. Some of them have suggested that the video, posted after Elkhan Suleimanov, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Public Health, had publicly supported Azerbaijan, was borrowed from some movie.

Law enforcers have no right to check the phones' contents of passers-by in Chechnya, Instagram users have stated.

On Sunday evening, two cities were shelled with missiles from Armenia, the Azerbaijani presidential administration has informed. Besides, areas near Baku were hit; and civilians were wounded as a result.

To eradicate the practice of women's forced marriages and hard physical labour in Dagestan, it is necessary to raise the women's education level and make violations of their rights public, the human rights defenders, Nadezhda Azhgikhina and Irina Kosterina, believe.

The smartphone's memory must be regularly cleared of the data that may be of interest to Chechen law enforcers, the authors of the "1adat" Telegram Channel have advised in connection with the mass phone checks launched in Chechnya.

Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, has announced the capture of the village of Madagiz and seven more villages earlier controlled by Armenian militaries.

Houses, schools and hospitals have been destroyed in the front-line regions of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh; residents are trying to move to safe places; and some are forced to hide in basements, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has stated, calling on the parties to the Karabakh conflict to protect the civilian population.

Today, 11 years after the documentary film "The Fate of a Dagestani Woman", the difficult situation, in which many women find themselves, especially those living in the mountainous regions of Dagestan, has hardly changed, said Saida Sirazhudinova, President of the "Caucasus. World. Development" Centre for Studying Global Issues of Our Time and Regional Problems. The current situation of women in Dagestan was indicated by the resonance surrounding a recent video of a local wedding.

The situation remains tense; fierce battles are going on in all directions, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports. Nagorno-Karabakh has confirmed the tense situation on the frontline.

At least three strikes were inflicted by Azerbaijani militaries on Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh; an air raid alert was announced in the city.

Fierce battles took place at night on the frontline; the city of Tartar and 14 villages of the Tartar, Agdam, Agdjebdin and Goranboy Districts came under fire of Armenian militaries, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

After artillery attacks on Stepanakert, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh have evacuated residents of several nearby villages; no evacuation is undertaken in Stepanakert, Grigory Martirosyan, a State Minister of Nagorno-Karabakh, has stated.

The issue of resuming the border crossing of the Azerbaijani citizens waiting for their return to homeland in the Dagestani village of Kullar remains open, a source in the Azerbaijani government has stated.

The parties to the Karabakh conflict, as during any war, are understating their own losses and exaggerate the enemy's ones, since the information war is a part of the military confrontation, military analysts believe.