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On September 22, investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova appealed to the Binagadi District Court of Baku with a request to grant her the opportunity to temporarily leave Azerbaijan for participation in an international event to be held in Riga.

On September 23, residents and guests of Stepanakert celebrated the City Day. The festive events held in the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh included sports competitions, exhibitions and concerts of folk ensembles.

On the tenth day, five hunger-strikers, shareholder of the Housing Cooperative (HC) “Territory of Happiness” continue their protest action in Krasnodar and complain that so far the authorities have been ignoring them and their demands.

The oppositional rally has accused Azerbaijani authorities of corruption and demanded to investigate the leakage of about three billion laundered US dollars from the country.

On September 17-23, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces were actively shelling Karabakh positions from various-calibre weapons, having made over 4000 shots, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

The mine explosion in the Vedeno District occurred during the investigating experiment, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) ha stated. According to the head of a local NGO, the explosion killed Abbas Kuzhulov was killed, who could be forced to show the hideout in the forest by kidnapping his relatives.

The four participants of the preparation for the rally of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), who disappeared on September 22, were detained, the NCDF believes.

According to the Chechen Prosecutor's Office, currently, 786 republic’s residents are at war against governmental troops in Syria; 607 of them have been put on the international wanted list. Relatives of those who left for the Middle East complain of constant pressure they feel from power agents.

Alexander Batmanov, a Volgograd journalist, who was placed into SIZO (pre-trial prison) with his broken legs, has complained about his health deterioration. They removed the plaster cast from one of his legs before time, just to force him to walk on crutches, he said.

The official death reasons of five Chechen residents from the "execution list" need re-examination with exhumation. Also, the information about the two citizens of Chechnya from the same list, who were brought to meet Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, should be clarified, the “Novaya Gazeta” writes.

The attacks on policemen in the Mozdok District and the militants’ killing during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted on September 6 near the village of Chmi are not interconnected, said an officer of the North-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

During the excavations of an ancient fortress in the Krasnodar Territory (aka Kuban by the name of the main river), which was found during the construction of the energy bridge to the Crimea, a burial ground of the Khazar epoch with weapons and ornaments was discovered, the head of the archaeological expedition reports.

The members of the US House of Representatives David Valadao, Frank Pallone and Tulsi Gubbard have been put on the list of undesirable persons for visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reports.

Investigators have released the description of the resident of the Suleiman-Stalski District, who disappeared on August 29.

Sirazhdin Ramazanov, the leader of Social Democratic Party from Dagestan wants to get nominated for the presidential election.

Alexei Kardashov, who left his home in Khasavyurt on September 14 and never came back, was kidnapped, investigators believe.

An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, who was seriously wounded by a mine explosion in the vicinity of Vedeno, was operated on in a Grozny hospital after receiving multiple shrapnel wounds; while his colleague was contused and received moderate-gravity wounds.

In Makhachkala, pupils and teachers of two schools were evacuated after messages on undermining. Such messages were also got by four schools in Makhachkala.

In the forest near the village of Vedeno, policemen with a militant detained a year ago were blown up on a mine. As a result, the detainee was killed, and the law enforcers were hospitalized. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement agencies.

In Grozny, experts from the Rostov Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) have defused an unexploded air bomb. Another shell was liquidated in the mountainous Vedeno District.