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Relatives of Khasan Khalitov, a critic of the Chechen authorities, living in Turkey, and family members of Ilman Mamakaev, who lives in Europe, have been kidnapped in Chechnya and Moscow, Khasan Khalitov and Ilman Mamakaev report. They associate the kidnappings with the beating of a Kadyrov supporter in Istanbul.

A house of a resident of the Tagavard village in the Martuni District has been damaged during a shelling attack by the Azerbaijani armed forces, and no people were injured, the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

In the Gadrut District, Karabakh rescuers have found a serviceman's remains. The total number of found bodies and remains of Armenian militaries has reached 1656.

Most of North-Caucasian nations had no statehood until the Soviet power. The Shamil's Imamat cannot be considered a full-fledged state, while the activities of Sheikh Mansur were too ideological, historians have noted in their comments to the Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about Chechnya's statehood and people's heroes.

More than two months have passed since the mass attacks on journalists in Tbilisi, but the organizers of the riots have not yet been punished, Nino Lomdjariya, the Georgian Ombudsperson, has stated. The accusations against Zurab Makharadze, an activist of the "Alt-Info", and the Archpriest, Spiridon Tskipurishvili, are insufficiently justified, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

In South Ossetia, in the Dzau District, agents of the State Security Committee (known as KGB) have detained and expelled to Georgia a US citizen who had violated the border.

Anna Manylova has left Russia, explaining this by the threats she received after Khalimat Taramova's escape from her relatives in Chechnya.

Local elders have condemned the woman from the village of Alkhazurovo, who complained about problems with water supply. The old-timers preferred to deny the existence of problems, rather than contribute to solution thereof, Instagram users have pointed out.

The material, in which the son of Azerbaijani ex-minister of transport saw slander, was posted from a fake profile that had nothing to do with Mekhman Guseinov, the court has concluded. Guseinov called the court's decision to be a precedent.

On September 6, Azerbaijani and Turkish militaries launched their joint exercises in the Lachin District, across which the corridor connecting Yerevan and Stepanakert passes.

The Djamlail Alikhanov (formerly Gikalo) village has opened a mosque for 2400 people, named after Abdul-Kadyr, a great-grandfather of the leader of Chechnya. Earlier, mosques, named after the father, mother, uncle, and grandfather of Ramzan Kadyrov, were opened in the republic.

At a request of residents of the Askeran District, Russian peacekeepers ensured their safety while the local residents were harvesting grapes near the demarcation line in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence reported.

In Ingushetia, four supporters of the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”), were detained, who were plotting attacks on law enforcers, the FSB Public Relations Centre reported.

During the week of August 30-September 5, 2021, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Seventeenth anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; ECtHR’s decision on the murder of Natalia Estemirova; verdict of guilty to an activist from Nalchik; refusal of the Georgian authorities from the EU’s assistance; MIA’s decision on life-long expulsion of comic Mirzalizade from Russia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 30-September 5, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Khalimat Taramova has recorded a video under pressure, Svetlana Anokhina has suggested. Information noise only aggravates the situation around the Taramov family, and the request to leave her alone is understandable, Saida Sirazhudinova has noted.

A native of the Chelyabinsk Region has escaped from a factory in Dagestan, where he was in labour slavery, the "Alternativa" movement has reported. Commentators have called on the police to pay attention to the problem of forced labour in Dagestan.

South-Ossetian villagers cannot visit their relatives in Georgia, as well as receive pensions and proper medical care. This was stated by the European Union (EU) in its call on the authorities of South Ossetia and Russia to reopen the checkpoints on the Georgian border.

The video appeal in which Khalimat Taramova asked to leave her family alone was recorded under pressure, her friend has suggested. Instagram users have called on to stop discussing the Taramova's topic.

Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, who had tried to escape from her family, has stated in her video appeal that everything was fine with her, and asked not to spread rumours about her harassment in the family.