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The council of religious leaders has chosen the Imam from the village of Verkhnee Gakvari as the new Imam for the Agvali mosque and introduced him to the local jamaat, residents have informed.

In Chechnya, a total of 30.3% of the population has received both doses of coronavirus vaccine, while Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia remain in the last places in terms of the proportion of those vaccinated, the RBC (RosBiznesConsulting) has informed.

Muslims of the Tsumada District have opposed themselves to Muftiate supporters throughout Dagestan and lost the opportunity to pray in the mosque; while Instagram users have criticized the supporters of the new Agvali Imam.

Today, in Yerevan, a clash has occurred between the police and residents of the city, who are protesting against the construction of a 12-storey building with underground parking.

An administrative case was instituted against the director of the water park in Volzhsky, which employees refused to let a family with a disabled child in, the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare) reports.

Employees of a foreign company flew out of Kabul and will return to Georgia today, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reports. According to the diplomats, the above employees are the last Georgian citizens remaining in Afghanistan.

Today, on the outskirts of the Dagestani village of Agvali, where residents have chosen a new imam, many people have gathered to announce the appointment of an imam from another village, local residents report. The police took control over the entrance to the village.

The Baku Court of Appeal did not grant a complaint filed against the arrest of Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. The oppositionist himself retracted his testimony in court, his advocate reported.

Two more Georgian citizens have left Afghanistan and flew to Germany to return to their homeland. According to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), overall 14 Georgian citizens are still in Kabul, which was captured by the Taliban.

The positions of Azerbaijani militaries were shelled by Armenia in the Lachin, Kelbadjar and Tovuz Districts, as well as near Shusha, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The court has passed a too harsh verdict to Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, by sentencing him to five years in prison for attacking law enforcers at a protest action, social media users believe.

Baku does not exclude the resumption of negotiations with the participation of the officials of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe), if ways of achieving peace based on mutual recognition of the two countries' territorial integrity are offered, Azerbaijani political analysts assert. The trilateral ceasefire agreement, which contradicts the principles of conflict settlement of the OSCE Minsk Group, prevents Armenia from activating the negotiation process, Armenian political analysts believe in their turn.

Nina Tseretilova, a resident of Dagestan, has stated that her ex-husband and his parents had beaten her up, when she came to them in Buynaksk to see the children. The woman turned to the police. In his turn, Magomed Tseretilov, her ex-husband, claimed that Nina had attacked his parents.

At the Southern District Military Court, prosecutors have read out 118 pages of analysis of the general financial ties of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, accused of financing terrorism. However, their names are mentioned once or twice in the huge document, Mr Rizvanov has pointed out.

The public support for Salman Tepsurkaev, a resident of Chechnya, is capable of forcing investigators to take real steps to clarify his fate, human rights defenders said after the appeal of the Amnesty International (AI) to people to send appeals to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

A court found Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, guilty of attacking law enforcers and sentenced him to five years of imprisonment.

An advocate of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev managed to get a permission to visit them in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Chechnya. The young men claimed that they were repeatedly beaten and forced to keep silence about that fact. The defence filed a complaint to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Today, Ashura, a day of mourning for Shia Muslims, has been marked in Azerbaijan amid restrictions imposed because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a back room in a house of a 67-year-old resident of the village of Novy Chirkei in the Kizilyurt District, employees of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan discovered a workshop for converting civilian firearms into combat ones.

Entrances to state institutions in Makhachkala are not equipped with ramps; this violates the rights of persons with disabilities; and human rights defenders have to seek the installation of ramps in courts, but judges reject about a third part of complaints, activists of the human rights NGO "ZhKKh (Housing and Communal Services) Monitor " assert.