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Afghan Mukhtarly has asked his wife to voice out his appeal to Fikret Mamedov, the Azerbaijani Minister of Justice, inviting him to visit the colony, where the journalist is serving his sentence, and personally ask about the quality of prisoners' food.

Mass evacuations from schools and hospitals took place in Ingushetia and in Stavropol after receiving reports about mining; visitors to the marketplace and shopping centres were also evacuated.

Anonymous warnings about the bombs planted in schools, hospitals and local administrations in Krasnodar and other cities of the territory have proved to be false, authorities report. In the city of Ust-Labinsk only 5000 people were evacuated today.

The mobile police post was located in the outskirt of the village of Sernovodskaya, local residents report, noting that an attack of one person on law enforcers raises many questions.

To reduce the impact of radical ideas on residents of Northern Caucasus, the authorities of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria should use a more creative approach, participate in solving family conflicts and support youth projects, says the report of the Conflict Analysis and Prevention Centre released today.

Rauf Arashukov, Senator (Member of the Russia's Federation Council) from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained today during a plenary session of the Council. He is accused of involvement in two murders, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

The Dagestani MMA (mixed martial arts) fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov, disqualified for nine months, refused to appear at the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) until the expiration of the one-year disqualification of Abubakar Nurmagomedov and Zubaira Tukhugov, members of his team. He also intends to pay the fines awarded to them, the fighter's managers have stated.

About fifty people attended a lecture dedicated to the ancient state of Urartu and organized at the State Museum of Oriental Art in Moscow. It was the first one in a series of lectures "Culture and Arts of the Caucasus". The listeners have noted that a cycle of nine lectures had interested them, as they want to expand their knowledge of the culture and arts of Armenia and Georgia.

In Chechnya, in the course of a new wave of detentions and torture of homosexuals, Bekkhan Yusupov was detained, the Russian LGBT Network has reported. This resident of the republic had earlier received asylum in France, but came to visit his relatives at homeland, the "Novaya Gazeta" has explained.

The "Transparency International" (TI) has downgraded Azerbaijan in the 2018 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) – by six points against 2017.

The clarification of regions' borders is a routine task for the "Rosreestr" (Russian Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography), but the Ingush-Chechen territorial dispute has forced the Kremlin to intensify the work. The federal centre is seeking to prevent new territorial conflicts, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

More than 80% of residents of Georgia are supporting the idea of joining the European Union (EU), while the share of opponents of Georgia's membership in the NATO dropped over the last six months from 17% to 13%, showed the survey conducted by the NDI (National Democratic Institute) and the CRRC (Caucasus Research Resources Centre).

The video showing the oath of allegiance to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, taken by the attackers on law enforcers in Dagestan, was intended to indicate their adherence to the ideas of the terrorist organization, the orientalists, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

Eldar Iraziev, who was beaten up in Makhachkala and received a trauma, has left the republic to undergo treatment outside it, Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the coordination council of non-commercial organizations of Dagestan, has informed.

Twelve persons accused of being involved in the Aslan Gagiev's grouping have been taken to Moscow, where the trial was moved for the sake of the safety of the litigation parties.

23 residents of Chechnya confirmed the information about a new wave of detentions and torture of homosexuals, the "Russian LGBT Network" reports today. The NGO's head filed a complaint to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to investigate those cases, as well as information about the murder, related to sexual orientation of a victim.

Ramzan Kadyrov ordered to hold subbotniks (voluntary cleaning activities on Saturdays) to prepare within two weeks empty houses in the village of Kurchali for accommodation of people. Public employees say they are involved in cleaning the territory and premises under the threat of dismissals.

Investigators explain the decision to suspend the case on torture of Rustam Kuchmenov, a resident of Nalchik, by the fact that a suspected law enforcers cannot participate in a criminal case. Representatives of Rustam Kuchmenov found the above decision "strange" and challenged it in court, the Committee against Torture (CaT) reports today.

Today, the state prosecutor has asked to give him time to prepare a response to Oyub Titiev's advocates, who demanded to exclude the package with drugs from the list of proofs, which, according to investigators, was seized from rights defender's car.

During the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani militaries were shelled for 20 times by Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.