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Law enforcers have detained Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili reports.

Mocking the Mikhail Saakashvili’s statements about returning to Georgia is inappropriate, President Salome Zurabishvili emphasizes. She notes that it is public agencies which should comment on the situation, not the “Georgian Dream” Party.

Mikhail Saakashvili is indeed in Batumi, but he will not appear in public officially until tomorrow, after the end of the voting in the municipal elections, the “United National Movement” (UNM) Party reports.

Vladislav Platonenko, who managed to escape from labour slavery in Buynaksk, returned to the Pskov Region. He intends to file a complaint to the police about torture at a brick factory.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has released a video message filmed amid streets of Batumi, again calling on his supporters to vote at the municipal elections, and the next day to march in columns towards Tbilisi. The politician has stressed that on October 2, he intends to personally take part in the voting at a polling station.

The Russia's FSB (Federal Security Bureau) agents have prevented a terror act in Cherkessk. A resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), born in 2001, has been detained on suspicion of preparing thereof.

Today, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, has written in his Facebook page that he had already returned to Georgia.

In Moscow, policemen have detained Ruslan Bobiev, a blogger from Sochi, whose photo session against the background of the Saint Basil's Cathedral caused discontent among believers. After the detention, the blogger apologized for his actions.

Parviz Akhmedov, another prosecution witness, has stated at trial that the testimonies in the case materials against Alikhan Adjamatov, a native of Dagestan, accused of aiding terrorists, had been falsified.

David Tonoyan, a former head of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) was arrested for two months under an embezzlement case. Tonoyan refuses to plead guilty; his defence intends to appeal against the arrest at the Court of Appeal.

Zarifa Sautieva, an Ingush activist, arrested under the case of creating an extremist community, has demanded to speed up the appointment of her treatment after being examined by doctors at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Junior Sergeant Elgyun Nazarkhanly was injured as a result of a mine explosion at a border checkpoint in the Zangelan District, the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan reported.

104,000 people have registered on a website, created to help Mikhail Saakashvili return to Georgia peacefully. This has been reported today by Tako Charkviani, an initiator of the project. The former president of Georgia will be detained at the airport upon arrival, like everyone who tries to prevent that, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili warns.

Today, several dozen activists of the “Dashnaktsutyun” Party have come to a protest action in Yerevan. They demand from the authorities to make free testing for coronavirus.

During the first session of the People’s Assembly of Dagestan, activist Salim Khalitov went to a picket in Makhachkala to express his doubts about the legitimacy of the republic’s parliament of the new convocation.

The State Audit Office of Georgia got involved in checking the placement of banners against the opposition and demanded from an owner of the billboards to disclose the information about the customer.

In the Nazran District, a villager opened fire from a rifle during a conflict with other local residents, after which four people were hospitalized, the press service of the regional Ministry Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

Rescuers have found remains of four soldiers, thus bringing the total number of bodies and remains of Armenian military servicemen found in the conflict zone up to 1677, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

The lists for crossing the Russian-Azerbaijani border in Dagestan include about 1000 Azerbaijani citizens; most of them live temporally in rented housing, Afig Allakhverdiev, a public figure and the head of the BIZ (WE) Fund for Support and Development of Socially Significant Programmes and Projects, has informed.

The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is biased, since the authors of the document have missed a number of important points, the participants in the Yerevan discussion have stated.