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Family members of three out of 14 residents of the Kurchaloi District, sentenced for terrorism, on air of the republic's TV asked not to spread the video showing relatives reacting with indignation to the court verdict.

During the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were fired for 92 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Aisa Khulaeva, a student, who filmed a ballot-stuffing at the recent elections, has not appeared in the hostel and at classes since; an application has been submitted on her disappearance, the Kalmyk State University (KSU) has stated.

Ms Zurabishvili officially launched her election campaign on September 12 with a meeting with the population of Kutaisi. However, by the start of the meeting, in front of the building, in which it was planned, several locals gathered with posters.

A man, who opened fire on law enforcers, was shot dead in the Khasavyurt District, law enforcement sources have reported.

The South-Ossetian law enforcers David Gurtsiev and Alik Taboev, accused of involvement in the death of the detained Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili, have been announced wanted under the red circular of the Interpol. In case of their capture, Georgia will seek extradition of them to Georgia, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

Eight surnames from the list of blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov exactly coincide with the names of those detained 1.5 years ago in the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya.

The court has fined Oleg Orlov, the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", by 10,000 roubles for an action in Moscow with a demand to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the HRC "Memorial".

In Moscow, at the buildings of the Federation Council (FC) and the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), a resident of Dagestan has held a solo picket in support of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev.

Family members of 14 residents of the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya believed in the promises of law enforcers and gave no publicity to the case in hope of lenient sentences, convicts' relatives told the "Caucasian Knot".

A high-ranking employee of one of the divisions of the "E" Centre for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) was put on the wanted list after an application lodged by a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) about torture, the Republic's Investigating Committee has reported today.

The record of a telephone conversation of the Director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia with the head of the Special Investigating Service (SIS) posted on the YouTube contains elements of abuse of authority, investigators have suggested. The case opened under this article can be easily closed, the lawyer Ara Kazaryan believes.

On September 12, Timur Tumgoev, a native of Ingushetia, suspected of links with Syrian militants, was extradited to Russia at the request of the Russian FSB, sources from the Kharkov Human Rights Group (KhHRG) have stated.

Over the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 87 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The Election Committee of the Iki-Burul District of Kalmykia has cancelled the election outcomes results at the polling station, where Aisa Khulaeva, a student, filmed ballot-stuffing. The exact whereabouts of Khulaeva is still unknown, but there are reasons to believe that she communicates with people on her own choice, the republic's branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party has stated.

Young residents of the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya have been sentenced to long prison terms on charges of terrorist crimes; their relatives did not see the convicts for 18 months after detention, residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has commented on the conflict between Timati and Khabib Nurmagomedov. According to Kadyrov, Nurmagomedov is nervous, as he is "cutting his body weight."

More than 360 lawyers from different regions of Russia have signed a petition demanding to investigate the beating of Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash. Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Minister of Internal Affairs, has promised to clear out the Benyash's case, said Yuri Pilipenko, the head of the Russian Federal Bar Association (FBA).

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has announced its decision on the appeal complaint lodged by Ruslan Rakhaev, the deputy head of the Department for Cherkessk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was found guilty of beating up a detainee to death. The SC has reduced Rakhaev's prison term by three months. His defence has announced its intention to file a cassation against the verdict.

Today, 65 Georgian citizens have been expelled from Germany. Of them, 59 applied for asylum in Saxony, but were refused.