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From the very opening of polling stations, messages began arriving about violations of the law during the referendum, says the statement of the "Musavat" Party released today, where reference is made to the information of its activists and voters themselves.

This morning, in Azerbaijan, 5267 polling stations were opened in 125 districts. Residents of the country are to express their attitude to the amendments to the Constitution.

Summary of the outcome of the elections to the Russian State Duma; accommodation in Volgograd of tenants of dismantled high-rise building in new apartments; new sentence of Vano Merabishvili, the former Georgian Minister of Internal Affairs, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 19-25, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The auction for sale of residential houses with land plots located in Khosta District of Sochi is scheduled for October 13. 25 houses are to be auctioned off at starting prices of 4.5-11.7 million roubles.

During the week of September 19-25, 2016, three persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On September 25, North Ossetia celebrated the double holiday, including the 80th anniversary of the republic and the 232nd anniversary of Vladikavkaz. The region organized mass celebrations, which were attended by several thousand people.

117 international observers from 35 countries throughout the world have been accredited to monitor the constitutional referendum held in the territory of the Azerbaijan. This has been reported today by Mazakhir Panakhov, the chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan.

Today, Musa Musaev, Mayor of the Dagestani capital, has announced the decision to build a monument to Magomed Nurbagandov, a staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan. Besides, one of the streets of Makhachkala will be named after the Dagestani policeman.

Sevak Khachatryan, a soldier of the Defence Army, was fatally wounded during the shelling from the Azerbaijani side. This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

In Georgia, schools located in the Pankisi Gorge provide pupils of the fifth and sixth forms with the opportunity to study the Chechen language. The classes of the Chechen language have been introduced in the schools at the request of Chechen Kistinians.

Today, more than 200 relatives of the people who fell victim to the counterterrorist operation in Chechnya have come from 59 regions of Russia and gathered at the Bogorodskoe cemetery in the Moscow Region to honour the memory of the victims. The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported on the identification of 134 people killed in 1994-1996 in Chechnya and buried unidentified.

Part of the protocols in the case of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, an Imam of Kislovodsk, accused of illegal drug dealing, contained false information, the defence of the Imam has stated and asked to exclude them from the indictment. The court has held to check the evidence that were put by the first instance court into the basis of the sentence.

At the election of the president of the Russian Football Union (RFU), the Russia's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko presented an unfinished and non-specific development programme of Russian football, Valery Gazzaev, his rival and a State Duma MP from North Ossetia, has stated.

The inquiry into the case of the Krasnodar policeman, accused of abuse of power with use of violence to a detainee, is unreasonably dragging on, while the second infringer figures in the case only as a witness. This was stated by the victim named Arthur Teryan. He claims that he received threats, ignored by investigators.

On September 23, at the trial of the so-called "Nardaran case", the defendants protested against removal from the courtroom of Abbas Guseinov, the deputy chairman of the movement "Muslim Unity". The judge was forced to stop the session.

The Makhachkala Mayoralty is unable to provide the city with a sufficient amount of city garbage platforms and finance the clearing of spontaneous dumps, said the spokesman of the cleaning company "ECO-M". In their turn, officials claim that it is the "ECO-M", which is badly doing its duties of garbage removal.

Last night, in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, three unidentified men shelled law enforcers and were killed by return fire.

Idris Yusupov, a Dagestani journalist of the edition "Novoye Delo", has appealed against his putting on the "prophylactic registry" and demanded to punish the perpetrators. He sent the appropriate application to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the head of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC).

Since September 17, in the Voroshilov District of Volgograd, Evgenia Lebedeva, an assistant of the magistrate judge of the Sovietsky District, is being looked for.

The Stavropol Regional Court has postponed for September 27 the court hearing in the case against Kurman-Ali Baichorov, Imam of Kislovodsk, accused of drug trafficking. The Court has provided the public prosecutor with time to get acquainted with the defence motion to check the prosecution evidence.