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Investigators have found proofs of involvement of three residents of Ingushetia in preparing an assassination attempt on Imam Khamzat Chumakov in 2017. The alleged leader of the attackers is trying to evade responsibility, law enforcers have stated.

The Ingush authorities had long ignored the infrastructure problems of the mountainous Sunzha District; therefore, the initiative of their Chechen counterparts, who began building a road, caused no opposition among residents of the nearest Ingush villages. This was reported by residents of border areas of the two republics.

Razmik Simonyan was detained again right after the end of his arrest, Alexander Saveliev, an activist, has stated.

The Moscow District Military Court has announced the verdict to Victoria Budaikhanova, a native of Dagestan, accused, after her return from Syria, of links with militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court.

Aziz Gakhramanov, a member of the "Musavat" Party, was arrested for 10 days after picketing against the ineffective conclusive negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh which lasted 25 years. Members of the "Musavat" Party believe the persecution of Aziz Gakhramanov is of political nature.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan has rejected the information about three killed Azerbaijani soldiers voiced by Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of Armenia.

Veterans of the Karabakh war demanded from Sasun Khachatryan, the chief of the Special Investigating Service of Armenia, to apologize to CSTO (Collective Security Treaty Organization) Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov in connection with insulting statements addressed to him.

On September 16, a rally against the verdict to residents of the Kurchaloi District, to which social network users called, did not take place, the authorities confirm. Security measures were enhanced in the places where rallies could be held, local residents reported.

The Azerbaijani armed forces shelled a border village in the Tavush District of Armenia. A local resident is wounded.

On September 15, residents of Grozny took part in the All-Russian action "General cleaning of the country". Employees of public institutions, state-financed organizations and students reported that they came to clean the city at the request of their chiefs.

During the week of September 10-16, 2018, four persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

24 wine companies from Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and 29 private winemakers took part in the fifth wine festival held in the village of Tog in the Hadrut District. Last year, the wine festival was attended only by ten private winemakers.

Religious figures of the Georgian Orthodox Church held a protest against the legalization of marijuana use, as well as the initiative to allow the cultivation of cannabis for the production of cosmetics and medicines.

A call to hold a rally against the sentence to 14 residents of the Kurchaloi District did not lead to protests in Grozny. When young people in Chechnya loose the possibility to legally protest and protect themselves by legal means, they get radicalized, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" noted.

Zaza Saralidze, an initiator of the action "Do not Kill", has been on the sixth day of his hunger strike with the demand for resignation of the Georgian government. Today, he has fallen ill. The hunger-striker is taken to the hospital.

Student Aisa Khulaeva, who shot a video about ballot stuffing at the elections to the People's Khural, is in Moscow. She has already met Sergey Mironov, the leader of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, the Party's Kalmyk branch reports.

At the parade dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Baku liberation, the Azerbaijani leader has announced that the strong army is the main condition for the resolution of the Karabakh conflict and the army's power is growing. The President of Turkey, who also attended the parade, stated that his country would not restore relations with Armenia until the conflict was resolved.

In the period from September 9 to 15, the Azerbaijani armed forces made more than 2500 shots on the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

During a shootout which occurred in the Talgi village not far from the Karabudakhkent District, law enforcers eliminated a group of militants, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

During almost a week after the arrest of lawyer Mikhail Benyash in Krasnodar, the legality for the law enforcers' actions had not been verified, reported advocate Alexei Avanesyan. The dispute, in which some lawyers accuse Mikhail Benyash of violating the lawyer's ethics by participation in the opposition movement, diverts attention from the fact that Mikhail Benyash has been beaten, notes advocate Alexander Popkov.