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Dagestan and Chechnya have occupied top places in the rating of the population's commitment to a healthy lifestyle. The top five places are also occupied by Kabardino-Balkaria and Adygea.

Summing up the outcome of the elections in Southern Russia; aggravation of the conflict on the border between Azerbaijan and Armenia; mass protests in Yerevan and Stepanakert; new sanctions against Kadyrov and his statements in connection with the special military operation in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 12-18, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has refused to satisfy the claim lodged by Mekhidi Timirbulatov, a local resident, who demanded 1.5 million roubles in compensation for torture by law enforcers in 2001.

Some Instagram* users have treated the decision of the Armavir city administration to hold concerts of pop singers on the City Day as inappropriate during the military operation in Ukraine.

A court in Krasnodar will consider the case of Vitaly Votanovsky, who had filmed the graves of the soldiers, who perished in Ukraine, and now is accused of taking part in an undesirable organization.

A video footage of a kindergarten educator rudely treating a child has sparked outrage among social media users in Dagestan. The child is autistic; his parents filed a complaint with the police, the press secretary of the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

On September 17, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, expressed his agreement with a number of regional heads on the need for additional measures to support the military operation in Ukraine. Some social network users were sceptical about Melikov's statement, while others have approved it.

Rustam Aguev, the head of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), has called on his subordinates to send those who use firearms during wedding ceremonies to Ukraine. It follows from a video posted on the YouTube.

Chechnya's special role in sending volunteers to Ukraine is due to the fact that in the republic they get everything they need "without unnecessary bureaucracy and troubles," the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

Sochi investigators have initiated a criminal case against three policemen, who, according to the investigators' version, had illegally detained with the use of force a local resident suspected of using narcotic drugs.

Within the case of 13 deaths in October 2020 of COVID-19 patients due to absence of oxygen, Anna Kolenova, a deputy chief physician of the Rostov Hospital No. 20, is accused. She has been charged with negligence.

The heads of the Timashevsk and Labinsk Districts decided to cancel entertainment events and fireworks on the City Day because of the special military operation in Ukraine.

In the village of Kaluzhskaya in the Seversky District, 162 land plots have been provided into ownership to families with many children. However, the plots have no road and no connected communications. The district prosecutor's office has appealed to the court demanding from local authorities to eliminate the violations.

An investigator in the city of Kropotkin (Krasnodar Territory) has refused to initiate a criminal case into the death of Giorgi Kavelidze, a resident of the territory, whose relatives claim that he died after being beaten by law enforcers, the "Team against Torture"* has informed.

Amid Ramzan Kadyrov's reports about the next sending of special force fighters to Ukraine, a video has appeared in social networks of the oath recited by combatants from Chechnya, pledging to "wage gazavat (sacred war) in the name of Allah."

By means of his statements about the need for self-mobilization, Kadyrov is trying to try on the functions of the Minister of Defence and once again show his loyalty to Putin, but "he runs ahead of the locomotive," the experts, Dmitry Oreshkin and Alexei Malashenko, have suggested.

Governors should not react to the call of the head of Chechnya to send a thousand volunteers each to Ukraine, while Ramzan Kadyrov himself could set an example by sending his children and sons of Chechen high-ranking officials to the war zone. This was stated by social network users from Dagestan.

On demand of the prosecutor's office, a court in Moscow has arrested the office of the liquidated "International Memorial"*, which was legally donated to another organization, human rights defenders have reported, treating this as an attempt to raider capture of property.

Ramzan Kadyrov's laudatory words about Russian militaries' actions in Ukraine, which followed his criticism of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), are caused by his misunderstanding of the role of the head of Chechnya in the special operation, Alexei Malashenko believes.

Russia has ceased to be a party to the Convention on Human Rights in connection with its withdrawal from the Council of Europe, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has announced.