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The association for the defence of electoral rights "Civilian Control" has sent an appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) demanding to investigate the fight that broke out on the voting day at a polling station in Dagestan.

Single voting day at elections in southern regions of Russia; election of leaders of North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia; celebrations of Eid al-Adha; detention of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Kabardino-Balkaria on suspicion of bribe-giving; appointment of a new prime minister in Armenia; jurors' verdict in Sergey Zirinov's case; death in Chechnya of Yuri Torshin, a former commander of the special group "Alpha", – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 12-18, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

As reported by the Ministry of Urban Development of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), by the end of the year, some 50 families will live in new cottages, built in a new residential neighbourhood named Ariavan and located in the Kashatag District of the NKR.

During the week of September 12-18, 2016, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A ballot box at the polling station in the village of Gotsatl was broken by a group of young people, who supported the pro-regime candidate and rushed into the station, a local resident told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Social media have posted photos from the station, where torn down ballots can be seen.

Polling Station No. 455 in Volgograd, where on September 18 a lot of people voted by means of the so-called "absentee voting certificates", is located in the hospital, where Nina Cherniaeva, a candidate for the State Duma from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, is the Chief Physician

Residents of Dagestan have reported on falsifications at polling stations, campaigning for the ruling party on the day of voting, and other violations to the Centre to monitor violations during the elections, created under the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft)".

This morning, the office, which the regional branch of the PARNAS Party is renting in Volgograd, was locked without the knowledge of party activists. Nobody explains the reasons, said Anatoly Polunin, a party member.

Today, the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan has held a rally at a Baku stadium against the amendments to the constitution, which broaden the powers of the president.

During his trip to Moscow, Idris Yusupov, a Dagestani journalist of the edition "Novoye Delo", was three times stopped by power agents at check posts, and learned from them that now he is on the so-called "prophylactic record" (preventive registration list). Users of social networks expressed their support to the journalist and criticized the practice of putting natives of the Caucasus into this record.

The family of the student Murad Ragimov, who was detained in Moscow on suspicion of involvement in the Syrian rebel groupings, but later accused of drug possession, gained the support of another advocate, who has already entered the case. An appeal has been lodged against placing Ragimov into custody, which will be considered by the court on September 22.

Because of the administrative pressure, it is impossible to campaign in Zheleznovodsk, said Alexei Grischenko, who has decided to remove his candidacy from elections to the Stavropol Territorial Duma.

The Chechen Central Election Commission (CEC) has staged a flashmob on the Instagram aimed to attract voters to the polls; on the voting day, a series of entertainment events is scheduled in the republic. The voter turnout is treated by the authorities as an indicator of the support of the ruling course, observers say.

The sentence to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent Zhalaudi Geriev indicates that in Chechnya it is in fact impossible to work for journalists of the mass media not subordinated to the authorities, said the journalists Nikita Sologub, Irina Gordienko and Ilya Azar.

The Nagatino District Court of Moscow has dismissed the petition asking to detain Magomed Guchigov, an assistant to a Chechen prosecutor, who is suspected of shooting from the car of the wedding cortege.

The constituent election commission (CEC) has lodged an application to the Prosecutor's Office about attraction of children to campaigning during a party rally.

A number of candidates for Russian MPs from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) assert that there were no obstacles to their campaigning; however, the candidate Inna Nasheva argues that she was under pressure.

Most of the Dagestani candidates for State Duma, who are outside the plans of those in power, subjected to pressure, the editors-in-chief of Dagestani media told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. This is their explanation of the decision of Sazhid Sazhidov, a coach of the Dagestani wrestling team, to withdraw his candidacy from the elections.

In Chechnya, the judicial system is under the executive branch of power; and money is spent not on recovery of villages, but on elite unnecessary projects, like "Argun City", said Svetlana Gannushkina, a candidate for the State Duma from the republic's branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

Azerbaijan is seeing a rise of repressions on the eve of the constitutional referendum, said the participants of hearings held at the Human Rights Committee of the US Congress. They called on Western countries to respond tougher to human rights violations in Azerbaijan.