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Facebook users have reported that vandals have damaged the monument to Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi, installed in a park of the city of Derbent. Earlier, the monument was repeatedly attacked by vandals.

Yuri Khachaturov, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), has stated that the shelling of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border and pre-border villages led to victims and threaten a new round of tension in the Karabakh conflict zone.

The Mayoralty of Pyatigorsk has treated the action demanding to observe the constitutional rights of members of the LGBT community as propaganda, dangerous for children, and refused to sanction it, activists have stated.

The protraction of the investigation into the bombing of the Chechen village of Katyr-Yurt in 2000 is caused by the reluctance to prosecute militaries, lawyers assert. In their opinion, Russian investigators, unlike the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), fail to take into account testimonies of victims from among civilians.

The farewell ceremony to Konstantin Nazarov, a native of the Volgograd Region, who perished in Syria on September 17, will take place at the school where he studied.

45 people were hospitalized as a result of clashes with policemen near the village of Zayukovo in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), the number of detainees reached 120, activists have stated.

The Tbilisi-Batumi Highway was blocked for 20 minutes by residents of the village of Kheltubani, dissatisfied with the inquiry into the death of their 18-year-old fellow villager. After the police freed the roadway, protesters went to a rally in the city of Gori.

Movsar Aleroev, a Chechen from the Ingush village of Psedakh, who was among the three alleged militants, killed on the Chechen-Ingush border, was not known for his ties with the underground. The unconvincing law enforcers' version gives rise to speculation about the falsification of the special operation, residents of the two republics have suggested.

Irish fighter Conor McGregor explained his criticism of Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov by the latter's praise of the Chechen leader. According to the Irish athlete, the father of his rival from Dagestan is afraid of Ramzan Kadyrov, of whom Conor McGregor spoke extremely negatively.

The Congress of the International Circassian Association (ICA) has finished without announcement of a position on the conflict in the village of Kendelen, and the statement will be announced later, reported participants of the event. The ICA's statement will not help to stop the confrontation, believes activist Zaurbiy Chundyshko.

On September 20, the Day of Adygs was celebrated in Kabardino-Balkaria against the background of clashes in Kendelen. Some Kabardian users of social networks refused to consider it a holiday. In the Balkar environment, not all people agreed with the calls for reconciliation.

On September 20, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Armenian authorities to pay compensation of 52,000 euros to family members of Levon Gulyan, who died in the course of interrogation at a police station.

The positions of the Azerbaijani army in four villages located in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled, the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan reported.

The Kabardians vs. Balkars conflict around the anniversary of the Kanjali Battle was caused by the problem of mountain pastures, scientists have stated. Balkars took the Kabardians' decision to mark the anniversary of the battle back in 2008 as a claim to their lands.

The explanation that the closed court sessions will ensure the safety of the law enforcers, interrogated as witnesses, fails to stand up to criticism, since almost all the witnesses gave their testimonies at open sessions, the International Society "Memorial" has stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has satisfied the complaint, submitted by Intigam Aliev, an Azerbaijani rights defender, about his arrest in 2014. The Court has ruled that he deserves a compensation for the suffered moral harm in the amount of 20,000 euros.

The Kabardians vs. Balkars confrontation in the village of Kendelen was arranged by provocateurs, who had fuelled the conflict in social networks, the head of the Federal Agency for Nationalities' Matters and the Deputy Minister for Nationalities of the neighbouring Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) have stated. Many social network users have supported the calls to end the conflict.

On Thursday, September 20, former villagers of Artsvashen gathered near the building of Armenian government, demanding help in improving their houses. After a clash with policemen, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan went out to meet them.

The broad-scale celebration of the Adyg Day in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) takes place at the background of the Balkars-Kabardians conflict over the historical interpretation of the Kanjali Battle.

The court has granted the prosecutor's request to question prosecution witnesses in the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" behind closed doors of the courtroom.