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Activists dressed in T-shirts with inscriptions in support of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and film director Oleg Sentsov came today to the OSCE conference in Warsaw.

The court has ruled to release Hayk Sargsyan, a nephew of Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of Armenia, from custody, the defence has stated.

Zaur Dadaev, sentenced in the case on the Nemtsov's murder, was transferred from a penal colony in Irkutsk to a penitentiary institution in Angarsk, where he would serve his sentence in more severe conditions, the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) reports today.

The Armenian armed forces 95 times violated the ceasefire in the conflict zone during a day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

More than 50 percent of voters came to the by-elections to the parliament of Nagorno-Karabakh at the 10th and 11th precinct districts. According to local residents, these elections differ from the previous ones by the number of candidates participating in them. The growth of political activity is connected with the revolution in Armenia, believes Hayk Khanumyan, the leader of the opposition "National Revival" Party.

More than 350 people took part in an unsanctioned march of Alexei Navalny's supporters in Volgograd. At least 16 people were detained; two of them were hospitalized.

On September 9, by a majority of votes, local MPs of Ingushetia re-elected Yunus-Bek Evkurov to the post of the republic's head.

The coordinator of Alexei Navalny's office in Rostov-on-Don and two activists were detained at an unsanctioned protest action held in central city.

The anti-corruption campaign in Dagestan is the only way to restore people's trust in power, Vladimir Vasiliev said after entering the post of the head of Dagestan.

The death of Gennady Gaguliya, the Prime Minister of Abkhazia, is an accident not connected with an attempt, Naala Avidzba, the press secretary of the Republic's President, has stated.

The fall of Gunib and the capture of Imam Shamil, contrary to the popular belief, did not lead to the end of the Caucasian War, the historians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe and regret that for over 150 years the image of Shamil has been used by authorities for self-promotion.

The North-Caucasian Muslims' Coordinating Centre was created 20 years ago to help the state in confronting extremism, the journalists Maxim Shevchenko and Evgeny Kratov have stated. Ruslan Kurbanov, an Orientalist, believes that the future of the Centre depends on the position of Russian authorities.

Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is on hunger strike for the second day, protesting against the refusal to grant him the conditional early relief (CER), his relatives have stated.

On September 2-8, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces made more than 2000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the MoD of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated.

During the last 24 hours the ceasefire regime on the troops contact line was violated for 75 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The truck that was bringing soldiers from exercises tipped over; one soldier perished and two others were injured, the Georgian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

The information about the cancellation of Egor Kreed's concert in Makhachkala, after the singer received threats, has nothing to do with reality, the representative of the music label, with which the singer works, has stated.

The State Commission on definition and clarification of the administrative borders of Chechnya must prepare documents for resolving disputes over the precise location of republic's borders, says a decree signed by Ramzan Kadyrov.

Karim Kasumov, who was accused of attacking a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during an anti-corruption rally in Makhachkala, was repeatedly warned that the video record was made by a media representative, but he did not react and continued to hinder the work of journalists, reported at trial Patimat Makhmudova, an injured party in the case. 

Colonel-General Mikael Arutyunyan, a former Armenian Minister of Defence, announced in the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States) interstate search, has been removed from the wanted list in the territory of the Russian Federation, the Armenian Police have stated.