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Residents of Chechnya are forced to get vaccinated against coronavirus by threats to evacuate one’s car, refusal to provide medical care or issue some documents, sources told the “Caucasian Knot”. People who have already been vaccinated are involved in promoting vaccination.

An idea of director Zaur Dzgoev to make a film about a female sex worker in North Ossetia to draw attention to the problem of violence against women and the violation of their rights provoked angry responses on social media. The Ossetian society needs artistic statements on the topic, when authors correctly understand the problem, analysts say.

In Anapa, young women left a hotel after its owner raised a stink in response to their complaints about a dirty room. The woman explained her act by the behaviour of the guests, whom she suspected of non-traditional sexual orientation.

A girl who came to Dagestan from Sweden to visit her relatives was forcibly kept at home, and her family members were forcing her to agree to marry a man unknown to her, human rights defenders report. The girl left Russia after her relatives threatened her with murder.

Russian soldiers have started clearing agricultural fields in the Martuni District from unexploded ordnance, including at the request of local residents, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court (SC) has partially satisfied the complaint lodged by journalist Afghan Sadygov by reducing his prison term from six to four years. The journalist's wife called this decision a "death sentence" to her husband.

After clashes with law enforcers at the rally against the "LGBT Week" in Tbilisi, already 20 people have been detained; they are accused of insubordination to the police and hooliganism, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

During a special operation conducted in the village of the Astrakhan Region, a supporter of the "Islamic State" (IS)* was killed; and his accomplice was detained in Moscow, the Russian FSB has reported. Both of them had been preparing terror acts in public places, law enforcers have reported.

Law enforcers have detained participants of the action against the "LGBT Week" in Tbilisi for disobeying policemen’ demands and hooliganism. During the disorders, one policeman suffered.

A pregnant woman from Makhachkala, deported from Egypt with her husband and children, has been kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for seven months on charges of financing militants. It is difficult for a woman to be in custody on the eve of childbirth; and she has not seen her four children since the moment of arrest, her relatives assert.

One of Ramzan Kadyrov's close associate has posted a video in which a child from the family of a high-ranking Chechen military shoots from a grenade launcher, shouting "Akhmat is power!" Meanwhile, the Russian President has increased the minimum age for buying weapons up to 21 years.

In Ingushetia, inmates of a boarding school for mentally retarded children are being regularly beaten, former employees of the boarding school report after a video of child abuse has been made public. The boarding school administration called the posted video an attempt to discredit the collective.

Political analysts suggest that the Ramzan Kadyrov’s decision to write a post during the Vladimir Putin’s direct line about the Chechen authorities’ ability to serve as an example for the federal authorities in terms of accessibility to the population was an attempt to inflate his own dignity and get even more preferences from Vladimir Putin.

Cases against six persons detained in Azerbaijan for attempting to enter the territory of the Kelbadjar District in spite of warnings about mine danger have been sent to court.

Forced migrants complain that officials explain refusals to provide housing to people, who had moved to Ingushetia during the war in Chechnya, by the lack of forced migrant status and compensations paid many years ago, which were not enough to buy housing.

In Rostov-on-Don, the military court extended until October 28 the term of arrest for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), and two other defendants accused of financing terrorism.

The Senate deputies of the American state of New Jersey have recognized the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and condemned Azerbaijan's actions against civilians during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict. Some Facebook users, including those of Armenian origin, expressed their approval of this decision.

The Prosecutor's Office has found unjustified the investigators' refusal to initiate a case on the beating Evgeny Lastin, a detained resident of Krasnodar. Investigators had seven times rejected Lastin's claims to initiate a case; now, all these decisions have been cancelled, the head of the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.

The remains of two more Azerbaijani militaries, who had been listed as missing since the fall of 2020, have been found in the Karabakh conflict zone and buried. Eight military servicemen are still on the list of missing persons, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and Embassies of 16 countries have called on Georgian authorities to prevent violence at the "March of Dignity" announced by the LGBT community. The Georgian Patriarchy has called on foreign diplomats to refrain from supporting the march, stating that the gay action "has nothing to do with dignity."