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Suspects killed in a special operation in the Buinaksk District of Dagestan were identified as Urudj Ramazanov and Airuz Abdulaev, sources reported.

Two militants were killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) by law enforcers in a forest near the village of Talgi. In the village, school classes were cancelled; there is an accumulation of military equipment; and the entrance to and the exit from the village were blocked, local residents have informed.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime introduce in the Buynaksk District, in which law enforcers killed two militants near the village of Talgi, was the second one in Dagestan since the start of the year.

During a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Buynaksk District, law enforcers killed two militants. Weapons, ammunition and an improvised bomb were found at the shootout venue, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has informed.

It's high time for the Dagestani fighter, Khabib Nurmagomedov, to reconsider his outdated views, a Russian female athlete, Angelina Semyonova, said after his words about the uselessness of ring girls at MMA (mixed martial arts) tournaments.

In a camp for recruits of the "Islamic State" (IS)* in Syria, a woman from Ingushetia, earlier suspected of links with militants, received training in mine explosives, investigators assert.

At the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, law enforcers acted as witnesses; however, they did not see any actions imputed to Gadjiev and failed to present any proofs of money transfer to terrorists, the Gadjiev's defence asserts.

The defence of Aslan Iritov has appealed against the decision of the Nalchik City Court, which has found Iritov, an activist with amputated wrists guilty of using violence against a policeman.

Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is serving his sentence for insulting a policeman, refused to sign a motion for pardon and was placed in a punishment cell, a prisoner’s son reports.

Today, a representative of the Armenian government has not announced any ways of solving the housing problems of forced migrants from Nagorno-Karabakh, claim participants of a protest action held in front of the building of the Cabinet of Ministers.

Blogger Khasan Khalitov, who lives in Turkey, and Ilman Mamakaev, a resident of Belgium, report about the release of their relatives, detained in Chechnya after an incident in Istanbul when a law enforcer had been beaten there.

The “Circassian Renaissance” charitable organization has announced a fundraising campaign for the purchase of wheelchairs for disabled children in Kabardino-Balkaria.

France has allocated more than half a million euros to Azerbaijan in search of nearly 4000 citizens who disappeared during the first Karabakh war, the French Embassy in Baku reports.

The Turkish-Azerbaijani military exercises conducted in Karabakh are mastering various scenarios for the situation development in the region, including the closure of the Lachin Corridor, Mger Akopyan, a military expert, and Andrias Gukasyan, a political analyst, believe.

Valeria Dulskaya and Anastasia Scheglova, Krasnodar journalists, have held solo pickets as part of the all-Russian action in support of their colleagues stigmatized as foreign agents.

At a press conference held in Yerevan on September 8, human rights defenders presented a report in which they accused Azerbaijan of inhuman treatment of Armenian prisoners of war during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict. They have noted that the report is entirely based on evidence, the reliability of which had been confirmed.

Residents of the village of Priblizhnaya have sent a letter to Kazbek Kokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in which they complained that they could not grow fodder for their livestock after the land was granted into lease to the Petrovs collective farm.

Investigators have charged two of the four locals arrested in Ingushetia with plotting terror acts; the other two were accused of assisting supporters of the "Islamic State" (IS)*.

The State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has detained Mansur Djumaev and Nasir Djakhangirov on suspicion of participation in hostilities abroad; both have pleaded guilty, the SSS has informed.

During two months after an appeal to the President of Russia through the direct line, a resident of Ingushetia has not received from the authorities of the republic a land plot for selective sheep breeding.