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The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners" has announced Zarema Musaeva to be a political prisoner; the woman is being tried in Chechnya under the articles of an assault on a law enforcer and a fraud.

A court in Tbilisi has released on bail three oppositionists detained during a rally in support of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. One of them said he was not going to pay the bail.

Ramzan Kadyrov has called on the President of Russia to let Chechen fighters to complete the special military operation in Ukraine. According to him version, the Chechen units are ready to "go to Europe."

The defence challenged the ban on leaving the country imposed on Anara Alieva, a spouse of an arrested activist. According to the woman, by banning her departure, investigators want to get evidence against her husband.

The security forces began to put pressure on forensic expert Gadji Magomedov, who did not agree to turn a blind eye to the signs of beatings on a body of a detainee and included them in his report.

Ramzan Kadyrov is suspected of preparing and participating in the special military operation in Ukraine, of justifying the actions of the Russian troops, and also of intending to change the borders of Ukraine. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine in its Telegram channel.

The Azerbaijani Army has entered the town of Lachin and took control over the villages of Zabukh and Sus, Azeri President, Ilham Aliev, has announced.

Guram Svanidze, a prisoner from the Gldani Prison (in Tbilisi), who was wounded during a shootout at a psychiatric clinic, has died from his wounds at hospital.

The execution of the death sentence of Djokhar Tsarnaev, a native of Chechnya, convicted of a terror act in Boston, has been postponed until his complaint is considered, his advocate has informed.

Armenia has failed to finish its section of the road alternative to the Lachin Corridor, but Azerbaijan undertook it at the request of the Armenian community of Karabakh. This was announced by the Azeri State Highway Agency (ASHA) that promised to open the new road for traffic within the next week.

In the city of Novorossiysk, a local resident was detained for posting a video in the social network with statements discrediting the Russian Army.

The 14-year-old schoolboy who was beaten up by Volgograd policemen was recognized as a victim. According to the family's advocate, there were many controversial and strange points in the case.

Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that families of low-income residents of Chechnya, whose young people refused to be enrolled in the new Chechen military units, should be deprived of social benefits. The leader of Chechnya called the refuseniks parasites.

The security forces of Azerbaijan have entered the town of Lachin and the villages of Sous and Zabukh, but this has not yet been officially announced due to the delay in the opening of the alternative road between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, Baku analysts say.

Officials reported about 200 natives of Dagestan perished in Ukraine, and the same death toll is recorded among natives of the Southern Federal District, follows from the statistics run by the “Caucasian Knot” on the basis of the information officially announced by the authorities of regions and municipalities.

An increase in the cost of bread forced residents of Azerbaijani villages to reconsider their expenses. The increase in the prices of flour and bread affected the socially unprotected groups of the population, economists confirmed.

Salman Tepsurkaev's death was predefined after he read verses that insulted the mother of an influential republic's person, Ruslan Kutaev believes.

Most of the residents of the dwelling settlements of the Lachin Corridor, who were ordered to leave their houses before August 25, decided to settle in the Syunik Region of Armenia; 20 families have already been settled there, local authorities have informed.

Igor Kalyapin, the founder of the "Committee against Torture"* (CaT) was taken to the hospital with a suspected concussion after being beaten up.

South-Ossetian law enforcers have handed Frank Yanez, a US citizen, who was detained for violating the border, over to Georgia.