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Such committees like the "Beslan Mothers" and "Voice of Beslan" speculate on the tragedy for the sake of "political pies", the designer Artemy Lebedev has stated in his video blog. This statement caused outrage among YouTube users and controversy over whether the state should help victims of terror acts.

Akhmad Israpilov, the administrator of the Instagram community "Imamat of Dagestan", received a conditional imprisonment for calls to disrupt the anime festival in Makhachkala, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported on September 11. Some social network users have treated the verdict as a good lesson, while others view the blogger as a "martyr for truth."

Today, in Volgograd, investigators have summoned at least two Navalny's supporters for interrogation. Activists from Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar reported that their personal banking accounts were frozen.

Three women from Chechnya apologized for contacting Ramzan Kadyrov with an appeal in which they stated "they had no shelter to live and no one to help." The Chechen authorities called on relatives of the Chechen applicants to "watch their women," reports the Chechen TV in its story posted on YouTube on September 10.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled in two villages located in the area bordering Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijani reports today.

Today, law enforcers have started conducting searches at offices and homes of employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) and Alexei Navalny's offices in 39 cities of Russia, including Krasnodar, Rostov-on-Don, and the Stavropol Territory.

An investigator refused to institute a case on torture by law enforcers of Maxim Timoshenko, a resident of Gelendzhik, the Committee Against Torture (CaT) reported on September 11. The human rights defenders decided to seek additional verification of the Maxim Timoshenko's complaint.

Former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen invited Georgia to join NATO under such a mechanism that NATO's Article 5 on collective defence of member states would not cover Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Georgian political analysts reacted positively to the initiative.

Supporters of traditional values from Dagestan have criticized the Russian women who put on papakhas, but prefer to ignore the participants of the #PapakhaChallenge flash mob, which was organized by an American fan of Khabib Nurmagomedov.

The activists, who oppose the gold mining at the Amulsar deposit have demanded from the Armenian government to take a final decision on the development thereof by September 20.

Law enforcers knocked the journalist, Tezekhan Miralamli, down to the ground, when activists were squeezed away from the courthouse during the trial of opposition activist Ruslan Amirli, the "Azadlyg" newspaper has informed.

In total, on September 7, four children were taken out of Syria. One of them, a girl, is being handed over to her relatives in Dagestan, other three children have been taken to Chechnya.

The Supreme Court of Abkhazia has received a statement of claim lodged by Alkhas Kvitsiniya, in which the opposition politician asks to illegitimate the decision of the Central Election Commission (CEC), which had declared the victory of Raul Khadjimba at the presidential election.

The blogger, Elvin Isaev, has been released from the Centre for Temporary Detention of Foreign Citizens in the Leningrad Region, but his relatives fear that Isaev may be kidnapped for further extradition to Azerbaijan, said Olga Tseitlina, a lawyer at the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Signs of violent death have been found on the body of the perished soldier of the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri, the Armenian Investigating Committee (AIC) has reported.

A Baku court has found Ruslan Amirli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) guilty of petty hooliganism and disobedience to the police. Mr Amirli himself has denied all the allegations and stated that he would appeal against the judgement, his advocate has stated. PFPA leader has called Amirli's arrest "a political order."

The health state of Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), has deteriorated sharply at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Vladikavkaz, his advocate reports today.

Adam and Magomed Ismailov, who wrote in social networks that the mosque in Shali was built with "illegal money," apologized for their posts on air of the Chechen TV Channel.

In the Temryuk District, 39 residents of MTF-1 village lost their houses in a fire. Local residents said that they had not yet received any assistance from the authorities.

During the past 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries were shelled for 22 times, including those stationed in the villages bordering on Armenia, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.