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The announcement by Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian president, to return to the country has sparked controversy among experts over whether or not he should be expected to arrive.

The voting outcomes for "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party at a polling station in the Urus-Martan District, where the party received less than 50 percent of the votes, may illustrate the real voters' opinion in Chechnya, human rights defenders believe, adding that releasing such data was a bold act.

Ali Bakaev, a native of Chechnya, whom law enforcers treat as the organizer of the attack on "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) servicemen committed in the village of Naurskaya, has started a YouTube channel and in his first posted video announced a series of video materials, in which he would present his version of events in order to prevent his extradition from Ukraine to Russia.

Rauf Arashukov, a former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, went on a hunger strike in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) with the demand to let him call his relatives and be visited by them, his advocate reported.

A court sentenced to imprisonment in a high-security penal colony a mother of a seven-year-old girl from Novoshakhtinsk, who was regularly tied up and beaten. A child’s stepfather was sent for compulsory medical treatment.

Khasan Khalitov, a critic of Ramzan Kadyrov, claims that the republic’s authorities stand behind a series of declarations of blood feud in Chechnya.

At the today’s meeting in the Parliamentary Commission of Armenia on Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs, Permanent Representative of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia Sergey Gazaryan has presented the updated figures concerning victims of the Karabakh war.

Levan Bidzinashvili, a Georgian oppositionist and candidate for Mayor of the city of Gori from the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has stressed a political component in the detention of his son for attacking a transgender woman in Tbilisi.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, Russian militaries have mastered their skills aimed at preventing provocations and repelling attacks on observation posts, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The remains of the servicemen who perished during the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh have been handed over to Karabakh rescuers. The total number of the remains of the Armenian militaries found has reached 1673, the Nagorno-Karabakh Emergency Service has informed.

By threatening their relatives, Chechen authorities want to avenge the failure of the attempts to kill the blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov and his brother Mukhammad, the brothers themselves believe.

The verdict handed down to a resident of the Makhachkala settlement of Tarki for the murder of Vali Abduragimov, a local activist and fighter against drug dealers, is too lenient, Vali's father has stated.

The return of Mikhail Saakashvili will benefit the country, the followers of the former Georgian president have commented on his Facebook message about his intention to fly to Tbilisi on October 2. Saakashvili will face criminal cases, their opponents have noted.

In the village of Koren-Benoy, Nozhai-Yurt District of Chechnya, the "New People" Party has won the elections to the Russian State Duma. Only 0.92 percent of the village voters cast their ballots for the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, the local election commission has reported.

The blood feud declared to relatives of Tumso Abdurakhmanov contradicts adats (local customary practices observed by a Muslim community, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”), but serves as a tool for intimidating critics of the authorities and forcing their relatives out of Chechnya, human rights defenders interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” noted.

Conscript soldier Garnik Abraamyan was wounded in the Gegarkunik Region as a result of a shelling attack from Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.

Today, in Yerevan, several dozen people have come out to a protest action against the introduction of mandatory coronavirus tests for employees starting from October 1. The police detained two protesters.

The Prosecutor’s Office began a check after reports on social media about an oil spill in the Black Sea near Gelendzhik. The local authorities ruled out the version of an oil leak from a dry cargo ship, and Instagram users demanded to find and punish the guilty persons.

High-rise buildings are being erected in the earthquake-prone zone in Shartava Street in Tbilisi, which threatens the collapse of both the buildings and the hill where they are being built, protesters assert. The construction violates no safety requirements, the Mayoralty has assured.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has adopted a resolution demanding from Azerbaijan to release all the Armenian prisoners of war (POWs), and urging both parties to conduct an inquiry into the committed war crimes.