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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.

The bodies of three soldiers with gunshot wounds have been found in a combat position located in Southeast of Armenia, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

A year has passed since the kidnapping of Salman Tepsurkaev, a critic of Chechen authorities, but investigators are still unaware of his whereabouts, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated, calling on to release the details of the inquiry into his kidnapping.

The aluminium factory located near the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia is discharging its wastewater through a sewer without any purification, inspectors from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (known as "Minprirody") of Ingushetia have confirmed after checking.

Again, the advocate of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev was not allowed to visit them at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), as the stuff thereof said that the brothers were sick with coronavirus, the advocate said. The "Russian LGBT Network"* will ask again the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to take urgent measures to protect Magamadov's and Isaev's rights, said the press secretary, Tim Bestsvet.

Hanafi Maturidis, to which the Taliban refers, are "handsome guys," said Adam Shakhidov, an adviser on religious affairs to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. He has noted that this is a wise statement that not everyone can understand.

Yerevan is ready to resume negotiations with the participation of OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) officials, and treats these talks as a guarantee of restoring security in Nagorno-Karabakh, Nikol Pashinyan stated on August 18 and confirmed the Armenia's desire to start demarcating the border with Azerbaijan.

In their complaint filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), residents of Dagestan claim that Russian federal officials acted ineffectively and failed to resolve the issue on compensation for the lands flooded because of the Irganai hydroelectric power plant (HPP).

A court has agreed with the arguments of the lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* that the city administration has no right to file such claims and refused to evict 25 families of forced migrants from barracks in Nazran.

The leader of Chechnya acted cruelly and contrary to Muslim morality by not giving out the bodies of the Timurziev brothers killed in Grozny to their relatives. This opinion was expressed by Instagram users, who positioned themselves as residents of Ingushetia.

The arrival of the Taliban* to power in Afghanistan did not provoke an unambiguous reaction among Muslims of Northern Caucasus and does not threaten the region with an increase in extremism, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggest.

The Azerbaijani side set fire to a field with grass and then opened fire on a team of Karabakh fire fighters, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports today.

The Sotk gold mine, whose workers had been evacuated due to shelling from Azerbaijan, has resumed their work. The situation on this section of the Armenian border is calm today, the "GeoProMining Gold" Company has informed.

Six Georgian citizens, who had worked in Afghanistan and were unable to leave Kabul after the Taliban seized the city, have returned to Tbilisi. Georgian authorities are trying to organize the evacuation of the rest of Georgian citizens, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.