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The authorities of the Chechen capital have arranged transportation of students and public employees to a rally to honour the Day of the Chechen Republic. This was reported by residents of Grozny.

On September 5, in Stepanakert, district administrations, law enforcement agencies, medical institutions, local diocese, and university received five minivans and 15 off-roaders from Arthur Varzhapetyan, a Russian businessman of Armenian origin.

On September 5-6, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan counted 123 cases of shelling from the Armenian side.

According to Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an expert for Northern Caucasus, the most serious cases of human rights violations in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) are not comparable with the persecution of Muslims in Myanmar.

It is important for soldiers and officers from the countries participating in the Agile Spirit 2017 exercises to visit places where military operations are possible in the future. This opinion was voiced by Pavel Felgenhauer, an observer from the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Azerbaijan supported the Muslim population of Myanmar.

At a meeting with relatives of a student killed in Khasavyurt, officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan have stated the student was shot and killed by Valid Motsaev, the leader of the Khasavyurt militant grouping.

In the city of Cherkessk, the capital of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), more than a thousand people took part in a rally in support of the Myanmar Muslims, which was organized by the KChR’s Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) and national public organizations.

Angela Maksidova and Inara Bedoeva, who eyewitnessed the detention of Salim Akhobekov, who was punished for dancing lezginka in the city of Gelendzhik, have addressed their complaints to rights defenders; the latter, in their turn, have asked the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to conduct a check.

In Moscow, four persons were injured as a result of shooting from a traumatic pistol. This was reported by the police. The conflict involved 15 people, and all of them were natives of Dagestan, reports a source from the law enforcement agencies.

In Dagestan, Valid Motsaev, a leader of a militant grouping, was killed in the course of the special operation carried out in the Khasavyurt District. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC). In 2016, the law enforcement agencies promised to pay three million roubles for the information about Valid Motsaev, the leader of the Khasavyurt militants.

In Dagestan, a leader of a militant grouping and a civilian were killed in the Khasavyurt District, and a policeman was wounded. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) is clearing out the circumstances of two children, who got wounded after they found a grenade launcher and other weapons in a North-Ossetian village, the Committee reports.

In 2012-2014, Azerbaijani ruling elite used to bribe, through fictitious companies, politicians who lobbied Azerbaijan's interests in the European Union (EU). This is stated in the report of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

On September 4, Luiza Dudurkaeva, a 21-year-old native of the Argun city, who had been granted the refugee status in Norway, was detained in Minsk. She was given out to her father, who took her to some unknown destination. Meanwhile, Luiza Dudurkaeva left Chechnya after threats.

There is no Fronde on the part of the head of Chechnya in connection with his words about the events in Myanmar, since every person has the right to have his own opinion, the Russian President has stated.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, thanked Russian President for his condemnation of persecution of Muslims in Myanmar. This is not the first Kadyrov’s initiative supported by Vladimir Putin: upon Kadyrov’s submission, a law was adopted, banning to regard texts of sacred books as extremist.

A passerby opened fire on a police car in the city of Khasavyurt, killing a police sergeant and a young man in the car, the “Chernovik” (Draft) weekly reports.

At the rally organized in Grozny in support of the Myanmar Muslims, policemen did not allow people to leave the rally, eyewitnesses assert, telling about the cases when women-participants of the rally needed doctors’ help.

During the past 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the ceasefire regime for 107 times by using sniper rifles, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.