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Azad Gasanov, a 22-year-old resident of the Tartar District, was blown up by a mine while grazing cattle. He was operated on and his leg was amputated, the hospital said.

A group of residents of Ingushetia has lodged their administrative claims to the court, challenging the actions of Yunus-Bek Evkurov at conclusion of the border agreement with Chechnya and the voting outcomes in the parliament on October 4.

The Chechen, who threw a metal can at metro passengers in Moscow with the words "Akhmat is power!" has urgently arrived in Grozny. In the Chechen capital, the young man was immediately employed: he would clean the streets and plant flowers, said Ramzan Kadyrov.

The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has got interested in the income sources of Zamira, the wife of Djakhangir Khadjiev, a former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, after she spent a lot of money at the department store and purchased expensive real estate.

Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, a lightweight champion, has announced his intention to break his contract with the UFC in case if his assistant Zubair Tukhugov, a Chechen native, is dismissed.

In Magas, women are on duty around the clock in the square which hosts a rally against the change in the border with Chechnya. They help to cook food and solve the everyday issues of the protesters.

Today, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced that he will resign until October 16 to ensure the dissolution of the country's parliament and the early parliamentary elections.

The video, which captured how a native of Chechnya had thrown a can at passengers, provoked indignation among users of social networks. They believe such behaviour should be punished, but call on Ramzan Kadyrov to act according to the law.

Muslim Suleimanov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, has been released by law enforcers without any charge brought against him, and his brother Rinat remains detained, report relatives of the activist. The gathering of residents of the Irgakly village, dissatisfied with the detention, has been finished after officials of the Stavropol Territory promised to investigate the situation.

A video clip, in which a Chechen publicly apologizes for throwing a metal can at metro passengers, has been posted today in the page of the pro-government television company. The young man said that "he was scolded by the republic's leadership."

Over the past 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled in two border areas, in particular, in one village, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The police have decided to suspend the inquiry into the attack on Pavel Nikulin and Sofiko Arifdjanova, the journalists of the moloko+ edition, because they failed to find the attackers, said the advocate.

A video, in which a man throws a metal can at metro passengers shouting "Akhmat is power!" has angered the head of Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov has harshly characterized the hero of the video, stating that he does not personify the Chechen people. The head of Chechnya also demanded that the man come to him by "the first plane."

The Chechen-Ingush territorial dispute has been artificially provoked and is being pumped from outside, Akhmed Gisaev, the head of the Human Rights Analysis Centre, has stated. The Orstkhoev community, whose lands are the subject of a dispute, had initially indicated the absence of contradictions regarding these territories, the rights defender has noted.

The "Strength in Unity" Movement has received special forms from the Georgian Parliament for collecting signatures for amending the Constitution towards banning the cultivation and export of marijuana.

The protesters in Magas have supported the demand for resignation of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, but treat the cancellation of the border agreement and the preservation of the territories in Ingushetia as the issue of fundamental importance, said the protesters interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the decision on 40 hours of compulsory work, appointed to the lawyer Mikhail Benyash under the article on violation of the procedure of organizing a rally. His guilt was not proved, his defence has reported.

The state of health of Araik Khandoyan, a member of the "Sasna Tsrer" armed detachment, worsened during his detention, his advocates have stated.

The outcomes of voting at the Ingush Parliament on fixing the Ingush-Chechen border should be cancelled, the organizing committee of the rally in Magas said to the chairman of the National Assembly. Protesters demand from the head of Ingushetia to revoke his signature to the border agreement.

The Akhmat Kadyrov TV and radio company named "Put" (Path) has become the first regional Islamic television channel that received broadcasting right throughout Russia, the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry for Press has stated.