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Magomedamin Vagabov, a resident of the village of Gubden, accused of helping militants, has stated in court that the protocol of his first interrogation contains fabricated data.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has upheld the lawsuit of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on liquidation of Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM or Muftiate). The decision will not stop the work of Imams, the spokesman of the republic's clergy has stated.

More than a hundred people took part in an action in support of those accused of organizing the riots on June 20 in Tbilisi, the organizers have informed.

The witnesses' testimonies and examination results in the case of Miyasat Kitalaeva, a resident of Makhachkala, speak in her favour, while the victims have toughened their testimonies against her because of resentment, the advocates have stated. In her last plea, Kitalaeva referred to her gullibility and asked for a humane sentence.

In North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia, NGOs called for a revision of the law on the study of native languages after Albert Razin, a supporter of the preservation of the Udmurt language, had committed suicide in public. The languages of the peoples of Northern Caucasus are endangered, note users of social networks.

The ceasefire in the conflict zone was violated 22 times within 24 hours, and the troops used large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

The authorities of the Russian Federation have failed to conduct an efficient inquiry into extrajudicial executions of Chechen residents, their relatives complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Esimat Uspakhadjieva has become at least the third in two months heroine of the plot of the "Grozny" TV channel, who repented of providing occult services. Following Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction, law enforcers are searching for people engaged in "fraudulent activities" in Chechnya, the police have explained.

Car owners with South-Ossetian license number plates held a rally at the "Nizhny Zaramag" checkpoint, telling that because of the new rules of exporting cars, they have to go to Russia by taxi.

In January-August of 2019, the number of visitors to Georgian nature reserves increased by 8% compared to the same period of 2018, the Agency for Country's Protected Areas has informed.

Law enforcers are putting pressure on Leyla Chemurzieva, accused of links with militants, demanding from her to testify against residents of Ingushetia unknown to her, her advocate has stated. One of the persons mentioned by law enforcers said that he had never heard of Chemurzieva.

Election results on unified voting day in Southern Russia; claim to court after summing up of the voting results at the presidential election in Abkhazia; closing of the border of South Ossetia with Georgia for an indefinite period; searches at offices and homes of Navalny's activists in Southern Russia; President Putin's trip to Dagestan on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the defeat of militants – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 9-15, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Among the newly elected members of the Stepanakert Council of Elders there are no women. Rita Mnatsakanyan, an MP of the National Assembly (Parliament) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has suggested ensuring the election of women to bodies of power at the legislative level. The society is scornfully treating women in politics are, NGO activists believe.

The closure of checkpoints on the Georgian-South-Ossetian border creates difficulties for the local population and increases tension, the co-chairs of the Geneva international debates have stated.

During the week from September 9 to September 15, 2019, one person perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there was no information about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

A Baku court has imposed an administrative fine on Ilgar Makhmud, an activist of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, accused of drug use; the activist himself denied the charge.

The bankruptcy manager has assured that in October, after the sale of underground courses, money will appear to pay off the wage debts to former workers of the "Kingcoal" Company, Tatiana Avachova, a member of the protest group, said at a picket in Gukovo. The picketers noted that this was not the first such promise.

The name of the paratrooper, Mikhail Bezelt, who, according to the official data, blew himself up on a mine in Chechnya, has appeared in the list of Donbass casualties. On the whole, the version of the contractor's death during exercises looks plausible, but it's strange that the exercise area had not been inspected by sappers, the law enforcers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

On September 7-14, Azerbaijani military servicemen fired more than 650 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic has informed.

The detention of a witch in Chechnya and the report shown by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company), where she was criticized by a doctor from the Centre for Islamic Medicine, was treated by some social networks commentators as a return to Middle Ages. Their opponents have supported the persecution of sorcerers in the republic.