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More than 500 people stay in the camp near the Dagestani village of Kullar after their departure to Azerbaijan was suspended due to the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict. The patrons decided to transport some of these people by air via Turkey.

Since the start of the conflict escalation, the Ombudsperson's office of Nagorno-Karabakh has recorded over 110 civilian victims. There are casualties in the cities of Stepanakert, Martuni, Martakert, Gadrut, in the dwelling settlements of Alashan and Aigestan, and in the village of Mets Shen.

The Chechen Adats (traditions) suggest a possibility of public reprimands, but leave the right to use them to perpetrators' relatives; however, the authorities have assumed this function, experts believe.

Residents of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NK), who moved to Armenia after the start of the fighting, have received, along with authorities' help, received support of local residents, who collected foodstuffs, clothes and medicines for them. They had to urgently escape from the shelling, by taking only documents with them, said the settlers from the conflict zone.

Salman Tepsurkaev's father can hope for security as long as he cooperates with the authorities, but the threat to him and other family members remains, human rights defenders believe. Shirvani Tepsurkaev (the father) wants to stop talks about Salman; therefore, he would not have recorded a new video of his own free will, Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, is sure.

On Thursday (September 8), after a short lull, the artillery shelling of Azerbaijani frontline settlements intensified, local residents have reported. A strong missile attack hit the city of Barda; there are also casualties and destructions there.

In the area of the Armenian city of Vardenis, militaries have shot down seven unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) belonging to the Azerbaijani Army, the Armenian Ministry of Defence has informed.

The authorities of Chechnya will not help Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh without the approval of the Kremlin, expert Vasily Dandykin believes. Political analyst Ali Magomaev suggests that at most, natives of Chechnya may be included in the peacekeeping contingent of the Russian Federation.

Today, while collecting the information about the damages inflicted to a cathedral in Shushi, reporters have come under a repeated shelling attack, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsman reported. Araik Arutyunyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, called the shelling attack on the cathedral a terror act and promised to restore it.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan reported about a detention of a Stepanakert resident, who called on soldiers of the Defence Army to leave their positions. Investigators suggest that the suspect was a member of a grouping which sought to demoralize the service personnel.

More 30 soldiers were killed in the Karabakh conflict zone, and the total number of killed service personnel of the Defence Army reached 339, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

A video appeal voiced by a father of a kidnapped moderator of the 1Adat Telegram Channel was recorded under pressure, and the whereabouts of Salman Tepsurkaev is still unknown, note some Instagram users. Their opponents argue that it is necessary to listen to Shirvani Tepsurkaev and stop discussing the torture his son had been subjected to.

This night, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh came under Azerbaijan's missile fire, Armenian authorities have stated.

In the Karabakh conflict zone, villages of the Barda, Agdjabedi, Goranboy, Terter and Agdam Districts are being shelled; there are dead and wounded, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Anna Politkovskaya was a bright example of an honest journalist who did not break down under authorities' pressure, those who took part in the memorial action in Moscow have stated. In a year, the statute of limitations for her murder case will expire; and the still unfound customer will remain unpunished, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, has stated.

Most of October 7, residents of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, spent in basements of their houses, equipped as shelters. All shops are closed, but townspeople have assured that they have everything they need.

Gezyal Bairamly, a famous politician and a former political prisoner, has died in Azerbaijan after a grave illness. Her colleagues and supporters are sure that her imprisonment had aggravated the disease.

Grozny has opened a new entrance arch from the side of the city of Argun. Residents of Chechnya reacted sceptically to the inscription "Akhmat is power" that crowns the arch.

On the anniversary of the murder of the journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, an audio version of her report was made public, saturated with psychologically hard scenes from her trip to Ramzan Kadyrov's residence in 2004, and from her interview, at the end of which she expected gunfire in her back.

The losses of the Defence Army are much higher than those announced; soldiers lack ammunition, volunteers in Nagorno-Karabakh assert. Local residents associate the shelling strengthening with Azerbaijan's desire to push forward the frontline before an imminent ceasefire.