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Ramzan Kadyrov spent hours talking with former officials who in the 1990s and early 2000s spoke for the Chechnya’s independence. Over the past two days, the five-hour recording of the conversation was broadcast twice on the “Grozny” state-run TV Channel.

In their appeal to Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, about 350 parents and relatives of soldiers who were killed in the 2020 autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh, called on to cancel the celebrations timed to the Independence Day of Armenia.

The dismissal of teachers in Argun evidences the desire of Chechen authorities to demonstrate the fight against extortions, and not to eradicate them, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Apart from the perished sergeant, during the incident at a combat position in the south-eastern direction, another serviceman was wounded, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the Prosecutor’s Office began checking information that in Uchkeken, a school teacher forced a teenager to apologize on his knees for a quarrel with his female classmate.

Today, in Yerevan, four defenders of a park in the “Fizgorodok” residential microdistrict have been detained during a protest action held in front of the City Mayoralty building. Another activist has been taken to a police station after trying to prevent vehicles from entering the construction area.

Andzor Kudaev, an entrepreneur from Kabardino-Balkaria, stated that he was subjected to torture and threats and was forced to confess to possessing weapons illegally and aiding and abetting a terrorist organization, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

The accusation of a member of the “Georgian Dream” Party in the murder of Australian teacher Shanae Brooke will not have an impact on the electorate of the ruling party and the results of the upcoming elections, Georgian political analysts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” note.

Sergeant Mkrtich Ovakimyan has perished in a combat position due to his violation of the rules for performing combat duty; an investigation is underway, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

In a Makhachkala college, a conflict of two students ended in stabbing. Instagram users have expressed surprise at the fact that a minor managed to bring a knife into an educational establishment.

An Azerbaijani post on the Goris-Kapan highway was set up in violation of international norms, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated. The opposition demanded to organize a parliamentary discussion of the situation with the participation of the director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia.

The colony stuff has explained the placement of Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), into the dungeon (punishment cell) by the quarantine needed before the court hearing of his complaint against the refusal to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to him, an advocate and a human rights defender informs.

Record of shadowing priests of the Georgian Patriarchate were posted on the Internet and made public in the media. In the opinion of the opposition, the leakage of the records has to do with the "Georgian Dream" Party. In its turn, the ruling party has claimed another attack on the authorities and the clergy.

Adamkadi Kurbankadiev, the head teacher of the school in Madjalis, who resigned after the scandal around the demand for schoolgirls to wear headscarves, performed his boss' order and was not guilty, pupils' parents believe.

The powers of Osman Salmanov, the head of the village administration, expired 11 months ago, but he would not admit the new head to work, residents of the Urma village and rural deputies have stated at a protest action held in Makhachkala.

Ismail Isaev and Salekh Magamadov were prosecuted for publicly criticizing the Chechen authorities and for their belonging to the LGBT community, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* concludes.

In Makhachkala, participants of four pickets demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to stop pressure on journalists and arrests without evidence.

Yunis Safarov and nine people, whom Azerbaijani human rights defenders recognized as political prisoners, have filed an appeal against the verdict in a case on the assassination attempt on the Ganja mayor.

Special operation in Dagestan; military exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh; law enforcers’ report about prevention of terror acts in Ingushetia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 6-12, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Soldiers stole a car that a resident of the Syunik Region of Armenia had to leave in the territory controlled by Azerbaijan, the head of the border village of Tekh reports today.