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On September 7, as a result of searching works conducted near Varanda (the Azerbaijani name is Fizuli, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), the remains of two Armenian soldiers have been found, the Emergency Service (ES) of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

Despite the worsening weather in Dagestani mountains, Ivan Davydov, a untramarathon runner, continues his charity run aiming to draw attention to the problem of providing palliative care to children and to promote the development of walking tourism (hiking) in Northern Caucasus.

The harsh reaction to the message of a woman from Alkhazurovo about problems with water supply was caused by the tacit intention of Chechen authorities to speak only positively about the situation in the republic, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

At the trial of Ingush activists, Musa Keligov, a public figure, spoke as a witness and called the clashes that occurred at the rally in Magas a result of the provocative actions stage by the republic's authorities, Djabrail Kuriev, one of the advocates, has informed.

The bodies of Lolokhoev brothers and Aslangirey Gadaborshev, who were killed in a special operation in Ingushetia, have been handed over to their relatives for burial a year later, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has reported. One of the conditions for the release of the bodies was non-disclosure of information and the termination of communicating with human rights defenders, the HRC asserts.

With the support of peacemakers, two soldiers who had been captured near the Black Lake in the Syunik Region have been returned to Armenia from Azerbaijan. One prisoner of war (POW) detained in Nagorno-Karabakh was delivered from Yerevan to Baku.

Akhmed Arsnukaev has stated that in Istanbul, he, his wife and child were attacked by a group of armed people, among which was a relative of the Naurbaev family who is wanted on terrorist charges. He has announced a blood feud against Naurbaevs.

The picket, at which Naira Airumyan, a resident of Stepanakert, called on the authorities to solve the problem with the shortage of water in the city, did not attract the attention of either the authorities or city residents.

Three out of the four residents of Ingushetia arrested on suspicion of plotting terror acts are minors, and the fourth suspect recently turned 18, the defence reports. Mothers of the detainees claim that their children did not give rise to suspicions of sympathy for terrorists.

Relatives of Khasan Khalitov, a critic of the Chechen authorities, living in Turkey, and family members of Ilman Mamakaev, who lives in Europe, have been kidnapped in Chechnya and Moscow, Khasan Khalitov and Ilman Mamakaev report. They associate the kidnappings with the beating of a Kadyrov supporter in Istanbul.

A house of a resident of the Tagavard village in the Martuni District has been damaged during a shelling attack by the Azerbaijani armed forces, and no people were injured, the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

In the Gadrut District, Karabakh rescuers have found a serviceman's remains. The total number of found bodies and remains of Armenian militaries has reached 1656.

Most of North-Caucasian nations had no statehood until the Soviet power. The Shamil's Imamat cannot be considered a full-fledged state, while the activities of Sheikh Mansur were too ideological, historians have noted in their comments to the Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about Chechnya's statehood and people's heroes.

More than two months have passed since the mass attacks on journalists in Tbilisi, but the organizers of the riots have not yet been punished, Nino Lomdjariya, the Georgian Ombudsperson, has stated. The accusations against Zurab Makharadze, an activist of the "Alt-Info", and the Archpriest, Spiridon Tskipurishvili, are insufficiently justified, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

In South Ossetia, in the Dzau District, agents of the State Security Committee (known as KGB) have detained and expelled to Georgia a US citizen who had violated the border.

Anna Manylova has left Russia, explaining this by the threats she received after Khalimat Taramova's escape from her relatives in Chechnya.

Local elders have condemned the woman from the village of Alkhazurovo, who complained about problems with water supply. The old-timers preferred to deny the existence of problems, rather than contribute to solution thereof, Instagram users have pointed out.

The material, in which the son of Azerbaijani ex-minister of transport saw slander, was posted from a fake profile that had nothing to do with Mekhman Guseinov, the court has concluded. Guseinov called the court's decision to be a precedent.

On September 6, Azerbaijani and Turkish militaries launched their joint exercises in the Lachin District, across which the corridor connecting Yerevan and Stepanakert passes.

The Djamlail Alikhanov (formerly Gikalo) village has opened a mosque for 2400 people, named after Abdul-Kadyr, a great-grandfather of the leader of Chechnya. Earlier, mosques, named after the father, mother, uncle, and grandfather of Ramzan Kadyrov, were opened in the republic.