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The "Fedeora Award" of the European film critics at the 55th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival was awarded to the film "The Otar's Death" by the Georgian film director Soso Bliadze.

On August 29, in Heroes' Alley in central Volgograd, four activists held solo pickets criticizing the law on foreign agents. The inclusion of independent and opposition media into the list of foreign agents dooms readers to receive information only from pro-government media, the picketers assert, calling for the cancellation of the law on foreign media agents.

Shukyur Tagiev, a resident of the Dashkesan District of Azerbaijan, was wounded by a mine explosion while grazing sheep and was hospitalized in grave condition.

Niyameddin Aslanzade, a brother of the convicted Azerbaijani journalist, Polad Aslanov, has been arrested for reasons unknown to his relatives. Polad believes that his brother's arrest has become a way of putting pressure on him.

During the first seven months of 2021, the count of crimes in Chechnya went up by 28.8%, which was the worst indicator in Russia. The top ten regions with the most unfavourable dynamics also include Ingushetia, Krasnodar Territory and Dagestan.

In 2015-2016, a female resident of the Zelenchuk District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) rendered medical aid to Syrian terrorists and shared the religious-extremist ideology, investigators assert.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh complain of frequent Internet cuts and a weak cellular signal. The problem arose due to absence of agreement with Azerbaijan, the Karabakh Infrastructure Ministry has explained. Azerbaijan is deliberately affecting Nagorno-Karabakh's telecom, Gegam Stepanyan, an Ombudsperson, has stated.

The perpetrators of Inal Djabiev's death have not yet been punished, the "Civil Platform" public movement has stated. The current authorities are unable to hold an efficient inquiry, residents of South Ossetia write on the Instagram.

The hotel owners, who staged a protest at the building of the Kobuleti Mayoralty, have achieved meeting with officials and asked them to help with deferring payments on bank loans. The officials advised the borrowers to solve their problems with banks by themselves.

Residents of the Makhachkala dwelling settlement of Talgi have blocked the highway, demanding to release Asilder Magomedov, the head of the settlement. Law enforcers had detained him because of his fight against drug dealers, the protesters have claimed.

Bakhtiyar Gadjiev demanded through the court to declare a violation that his Facebook page was blocked by the official page of Ilham Aliev, which is why the activist is deprived of the right to leave his comments under the posts placed by the President of Azerbaijan.

The case of Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, arrested for alleged helping militants, is built on fabricated evidence. Investigators are putting pressure on Visaev to get his confession, his wife told the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

After negotiations with the participation of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russian peacemakers, motor traffic on the Goris-Kapan highway has resumed. Citizens of Armenia can safely drive along this highway, Gevorg Parsyan, the Mayor of Kapan, has informed.

Armenia is interested in the negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh within the format of the OSCE Minsk Group; and the West will support it in this, Armenian political analysts believe.

Azerbaijan has blocked the Goris-Kapan highway for residents of Armenia in order to get concessions from Yerevan on the Zangezur Corridor issue, Beniamin Pogosyan, a political analyst, and Tatul Akopyan, the coordinator of the ANI Research Centre, have stated.

The court postponed the hearing in a case against former Azerbaijani ambassador Eldar Gasanov with reference to a formal reason. Journalists working for independent media were not allowed into the courtroom, an advocate reported.

Ingush participants of a forum held in honour of the anniversary of the Akhmat Kadyrov’s jubilee, who introduced themselves as the leaders of the Muftiate, have nothing in common with the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Ingushetia, Murad Daskiev, the chairman of the Council of Teips, and Imam Kharon Khamkhoev claim.

Relatives of the soldiers who disappeared in Nagorno-Karabakh have spent the whole night in front of the Armenian government building. Today, additional police forces have been drawn to the place of the protest action.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court found Arthur Chemkov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of aiding and abetting a member of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

The Armenian armed forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Tovuz District, and the shelling attack was suppressed by return fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.