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Residents of the Makhachkala dwelling settlement of Talgi have blocked the highway, demanding to release Asilder Magomedov, the head of the settlement. Law enforcers had detained him because of his fight against drug dealers, the protesters have claimed.

Bakhtiyar Gadjiev demanded through the court to declare a violation that his Facebook page was blocked by the official page of Ilham Aliev, which is why the activist is deprived of the right to leave his comments under the posts placed by the President of Azerbaijan.

The case of Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, arrested for alleged helping militants, is built on fabricated evidence. Investigators are putting pressure on Visaev to get his confession, his wife told the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

After negotiations with the participation of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russian peacemakers, motor traffic on the Goris-Kapan highway has resumed. Citizens of Armenia can safely drive along this highway, Gevorg Parsyan, the Mayor of Kapan, has informed.

Armenia is interested in the negotiations on Nagorno-Karabakh within the format of the OSCE Minsk Group; and the West will support it in this, Armenian political analysts believe.

Azerbaijan has blocked the Goris-Kapan highway for residents of Armenia in order to get concessions from Yerevan on the Zangezur Corridor issue, Beniamin Pogosyan, a political analyst, and Tatul Akopyan, the coordinator of the ANI Research Centre, have stated.

The court postponed the hearing in a case against former Azerbaijani ambassador Eldar Gasanov with reference to a formal reason. Journalists working for independent media were not allowed into the courtroom, an advocate reported.

Ingush participants of a forum held in honour of the anniversary of the Akhmat Kadyrov’s jubilee, who introduced themselves as the leaders of the Muftiate, have nothing in common with the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Ingushetia, Murad Daskiev, the chairman of the Council of Teips, and Imam Kharon Khamkhoev claim.

Relatives of the soldiers who disappeared in Nagorno-Karabakh have spent the whole night in front of the Armenian government building. Today, additional police forces have been drawn to the place of the protest action.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court found Arthur Chemkov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, guilty of aiding and abetting a member of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

The Armenian armed forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Tovuz District, and the shelling attack was suppressed by return fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

In the Syunik Region, villagers have limited access to food and medical services, as the road from Goris to Kapan has been blocked by Azerbaijani soldiers, the local authorities report.

Azerbaijan will open traffic on the road from Goris to Kapan if Armenia investigates an incident with the wounding of an Azerbaijani border guard, punishes the guilty persons and guarantees that no provocations will repeat, suggest Telman Abilov, the head of the NGO “Military Officers”, and Togrul Djuvarly, a member of the Azerbaijan National Public Committee for European Integration.

Members of a criminal grouping provided militants with food, transported them in personal cars, and one of the accused stored a pistol.

The Armenian leadership is speeding up negotiations, as it is morally ready for compromises with Azerbaijan on the issue of border delimitation, Azerbaijani political analysts believe, adding that Baku will meet Yerevan halfway on economic issues, but under no circumstances will agree to discuss the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The court has ruled to the arrest five residents of the Pankisi Gorge accused of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS)*, by rejecting their defence's motion to release them on bail. All the five declared their innocence.

Soldiers blocked a section of the road from Goris to Kapan, and as a result, residents of the villages of Vorotan, Shurnukh, and Bartsravan were left without a car connection. The blocked villages face problems with the supply of food.

All 120 Azerbaijani peacekeepers have been sent from Afghanistan to Turkey, from where they will return home in the near future, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, was placed in an elite clinic near Moscow, which operated without a licence, where patients were treated with unknown drugs without requiring documents, the “Meduza”* reports.

Many of the men, who left Dagestan for Syria and Iraq to join militants, were killed, and their wives and children remained in a foreign country without money or a roof over their heads, the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta” reports.