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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 80,000 euros to families of each of five natives of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, who were kidnapped in 2007-2001.

Messages on social networks about the kidnapping of a child in Kurchaloi became a pretext for an "explanatory conversation" with two local residents at the building of the police department. Instagram users criticized law enforcers for the public reproach.

Positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from sniper rifles, reports today the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

On October 7, at an action in Barda, relatives of soldiers killed and sentenced in the Terter case demanded to rehabilitate the deceased defendants and release the imprisoned relatives.

The film "Beanpole" directed by Kantemir Balagov from Kabardino-Balkaria became one of 93 Oscar nominations in the Best International Feature Film category.

The authorities took a selective approach while investigating the case on dispersal of a protest rally in Tbilisi on June 20 and avoided the indicative punishment of the responsible persons, suggests the NGO "International Transparency-Georgia".

The basic rights and freedoms that guarantee holding of fair municipal elections are limited in Azerbaijan by the current electoral legislation, concludes the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre (EMDS).

Residents of Moscow laid flowers at the house, where 13 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", was shot dead; and Petersburg residents held a massive picket in Anna's memory.

Judges are not allowed to make decisions that run counter law enforcers' demands, the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, has stated at a session of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. Even if Gadjiev is released from custody, he will be arrested on another charge, his defence is sure.

Prior to blaming participants of wedding parties for demonstrating their feelings, the head of Chechnya himself spoke on the federal channel about his relations with wife, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has pointed out. YouTube users agree that Kadyrov has no moral right to criticize violators of Chechen traditions.

The staff of the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison) refuses to let advocates to the Ingush activists kept there. Refusals are motivated by the list of those advocates who are allowed to visit the SIZO.

Today, Alvi Karimov, the press secretary for the head of Chechnya, has neither confirmed nor denied the reports on an attempted assassination on Ramzan Kadyrov, having refused to comment on "rumours".

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has ruled to revise the decision on the extension of the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly.

For the second time in five years, the memorial complex of victims of deportation has been moved to a new place in Grozny; however, this fact caused no resonance in the society.

During the week from September 30 to October 6, 2019, the North-Caucasian armed conflict resulted in at least two wounded persons; no information was received about the dead ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The dwelling neighbourhood of Ortsin-Mokhk located in Grozny has transformed after reconstruction, but builders left unfinished work in apartments and used cheap materials.

Today, about a dozen Gadjiev's colleagues and friends have come to the central square of Makhachkala to support the journalist, since at 12:00 a.m. Moscow time, a session was scheduled at the Supreme Court (SC) on election of his freedom restraint measure.

Search of the Dagestan weekly "Chernovik"; exacerbation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border; bold escape of prisoner in Ingushetia, – read about these and other events in a September 30-October 6, 2019, weekly review of main events in the Caucasus prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On September 6, the "Kunaki" (Friends) Festival of Cinema and Television in Nalchik showed two films from Dagestan – "Parable of Lame Ram" and "Zada's Children". The first documentary tells about incorruptible policeman, who was fired from the law enforcement system, and the second one – about rural teacher who has raised about a hundred adopted children.

Over the past seven days, the Azerbaijani side violated the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line by firing about 800 shots, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.