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On Thursday, October 3, a contract military serviceman was killed in a shelling attack undertaken by Azerbaijan; and a tractor driver was wounded on another section of the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Forcing residents of Chechnya to apologize for deviating from the wedding customs accepted in the republic violates people's privacy; and repentances to the camera are not a Vainakh tradition, social network users have noting in their comments on the fifth case of apologies for one's behaviour at a wedding party.

Authorities are still ignoring the picket of Afghan War veterans held in Makhachkala; however, their protest action was supported by the leadership of the Russian Union of Afghan War Veterans. The widow of a veteran, who had also faced authorities' indifference, has addressed the Makhachkala protesters.

The "Memorial" has prepared tips for organizers of an action with reading the names of victims of political repressions in Russia concerning how to prepare a list of names and how to inform people about the action.

The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh provide care for residents of a boarding house in Stepanakert, but the older people feel separated from society and need communication and leisure.

Residents of Grozny report that for several days in a row, armed law enforcers come with inspections to people's apartments. The Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MFA) announces preventive measures carried out on the eve of the City Day. Law enforcers are not entitled to conduct a mass check of documents without a reason, an advocate notes.

A resident of Chechnya apologized for posting his video after Ramzan Kadyrov had instructed his subordinates to find an author of mocking messages posted during a fire in a Grozny shopping centre. The resident of Grozny called it "an act unworthy of a Chechen man," and went out with a shovel to clean the shopping centre affected by the fire. Social networks users pointed to the predictability of public repentance.

Participants of an action held under the slogan of "It's a shame" near the Gldani prison supported persons detained during the June riots in Tbilisi. The activists demanded to release the detainees and spoke against the release of law enforcers detained for abuse of power during the dispersal of the protestors.

Abkhazia has lifted the restriction imposed in June on border crossing with Georgia, the Abkhaz State Security Service (SSB) reports.

The new trend of public apologies for violating folk traditions at wedding parties in Chechnya was continued by a young resident of the republic, who repented of his tears at his sister's wedding party. Social network users have noted that the hero of the video clip is a Kabardian, which means that he is not obliged to observe Chechen traditions, and supported the young man.

The operator, who died as a result of the shelling, worked the road construction in the area of the troops contact line in the conflict zone.

Searches in the office of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft) have disrupted the work of the staff; because of this, the next issue may be printed with a delay. Law enforcers sought to show that they could put pressure on journalists, said Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the weekly.

A contract soldier was wounded in the Tavush District of Armenia. He was hospitalized at night of October 2.

Azerbaijani border guards have killed three persons, who gad tried to illegally cross the border and opened fire in response to a demand to stop, the country's State Frontier Service (SFS) has reported.

Regina Migirova, a resident of Moscow, told activists of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that armed law enforcers had broken the door to her apartment and threatened her with violence and criminal prosecution. They asked her about her links with some person suspected of financing terrorism, a native of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

The publications of the "Kadyrov's Flying Squad" in social networks indicate that since 2016, they have been performing their professional mission in Spitsbergen (Svalbard in Norwegian).

The criminal case initiated against Leyla Ismailzade, the wife of the convicted leader of the "Muslim Unity" movement, Talekh Bagirzade, who was suspected of an attempt to bring a telephone to her imprisoned husband, has been closed. Leyla associates this fact with negative comments in social networks.

A native of Dagestan who had left the republic to join militants in Syria used the help of a woman from the Astrakhan Region to collect money through closed Telegram chats, investigators report.

The former husband of Regina Gagieva, accused of her murder, twice escaped from house arrest, but was not detained. After they got married, Regina Gagieva kept in secret that her husband beat her, her relatives said. In North Ossetia, victims of domestic violence are supported only by activists amid the authorities' inattention to the problem.

Russia will withdraw its troops from Abkhazia and South Ossetia when such a decision is made, said Russian President Vladimir Putin when answering a question voiced by a Georgian journalist.