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Interpol has become more critical when reacting to requests of the Russian authorities, and that has been proved by the Interpol's refusal to search for Ali Bakaev, a native of Chechnya, notes human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina.

The incumbent president, Raul Khadjimba, has gained a thousand votes more than Alkhas Kvitsiniya, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Abkhazia has announced today. Alkhas Kvitsiniya has promised to challenge the CEC's decision in court.

The 18-year-old resident of Chechnya, shot dead today in a shootout with policemen, had been put on the wanted list after hijacking a car and stealing a pistol from his relative, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed. The young man had planned to attack law enforcers, the director of the ChGTRK said, but the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has not yet confirmed this version.

The brothers Ayub and Askhab Vakharagov were detained for an "educative conversation", because they violated the ban on singing the songs not approved by the Chechen authorities, Kheda Saratova, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya, stated on September 8. According to a source in the Gudermes District, law enforcers have been keeping the brothers for two weeks already.

Single voting day in Southern Russia; election of Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov as the leader of Ingushetia; the second round of the presidential election in Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 2-8, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In January-March of 2019, at least 21 people suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus: 16 people were killed, and at least five more were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

On September 8, policemen detained three supporters of the "Alliance of Georgia's Patriots" after a clash at a rally in Tbilisi.

At some polling stations in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), crowds of voters were observed; attempts were recorded to vote on inappropriate documents and violations of the secrecy of the vote, observers inform.

The words of UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov that only men can wear papakhas (Caucasian wool hat), because they have the honour, have been criticized on the Facebook. Already at least 18 women took part in the flash mob by posting their photos in papakhas.

Heads of some budget-funded organizations have demanded from their subordinates to vote for a particular candidate for the governor of the Volgograd Region, voters have informed.

Shamal Madaev and Khalid Khamidov, natives of Chechnya, arrested after a mass brawl with shooting, told rights defenders that they had been beaten up and tortured with electricity after detention.

Baku hosted a presentation of the novel by Intigam Aliev, a well-known lawyer and rights defender, which was combined with a charity action. The event included gathering of school supplies and books for children from low-income families, including those of political prisoners.

On Saturday, September 7, in Paris, a rally was held at the German Embassy demanding from German authorities to objectively investigate the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Pankisi native.

Social network users have noted that instead of complaining about the many-hours-long detention by law enforcers of Novosasitli villagers, the blogger, Rasul Asad, has emphasized law enforcers' politeness and the fact that villagers came to police voluntarily.

During the first week of September, Azerbaijani military units fired more than 700 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

The head of Chechnya has welcomed the decision on the conditional early relief (CER) of the football players of the "Krasnodar" and "Zenit" Football Clubs (FCs), Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin, and offered them to join the "Akhmat" FC in Grozny. Kokorin and Mamaev will not accept the invitation, Chechen football fans believe.

A bike ride of Ekaterina Gerasimova, a journalist, along the embankment in Vladikavkaz seemed to local law enforcers like the behaviour of a drug hider. Ms Gerasimova complained about ill-treatment at detention. She missed her train, but law enforcers helped her to catch up with the train in a police car.

Several dozens of people, who were kept in a division of a power structure in the Khasavyurt District, were released nine hours after detention, local residents have informed. The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) claims that none of these people was detained.

Law enforcers have set up their checkpoint at a distance of less than two kilometres from the Georgian one, which became the subject of a border conflict. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated this as a compulsion to border demarcation. The OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) has supported Georgia by opposing the bordering process.

At their protest action held in Baku, relatives of those convicted within the "Terter case" have demanded to return the case back for preliminary investigation and to release their convicted relatives. The action was stopped after police intervention.