Head of the European Committee for NATO Development Günther Fehlinger called on Armenia to join the North Atlantic Alliance. “Nikol Pashinyan, I urge Armenia to join NATO. Joe Biden will protect Armenia,” the appeal says. This is reported by the publication "Minval.az".

On the night of September 3, in the Shelkovskiy district, employees of the Russian security forces abducted Lechi Khakimsultanovich Khozhaev, born in 1975, and a local resident named Khamtsuev (the employees of the HRC "Memorial" could not obtain any other information about him).

A series of visits by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili to Europe, which were not coordinated with the government, and the scandal that followed them, testify to internal disagreements in the country, which, in turn, influence external political processes.

On July 15, the Memorial Human Rights Center published information on the practice of using preventive accounting in Dagestan in 2023. According to human rights activists, if previously the police registered mainly adherents of the Salafi branch of Islam who attend “unreliable” mosques as potential extremists, now relatives of convicted persons and women wearing a niqab are included in the classified lists of criminal records.

On July 4, the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny announced the verdict for Zarema Musaeva. The court found her guilty of fraud and violence against a police officer and sentenced her to 5.5 years in a general regime colony. That's exactly what the prosecutor asked for her. Musaeva and her lawyers intend to appeal the verdict.

On August 29, Rosfinmonitoring added lawyer, human rights activist, former employee of the "Committee Against Torture" Abubakar Yangulbaev, son of Zarema Musayeva, to the list of terrorists and extremists. He is a defendant in two criminal cases - on organizing extremist activity and on calls for terrorism.

On August 28, the RIA Rating agency published a rating of regions by labor market. The bottom positions in the list were occupied by Ingushetia, Chechnya, Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia. The rating was calculated based on Rosstat data on salaries, working conditions, employment and labor market capacity in 2022.

I have sent two files to this message – 016-1 and 016-2, because I could not find one photo with three flags – Russian, South Ossetian and Abkhazian. If you can combine these three in one photo, that would be great.

On July 3, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, signed a decree banning the use of civilian drones in the republic’s airspace. Chechnya has become the 59th Russian region to introduce a ban on civilian drones.

On August 25, the Russian Ministry of Justice added Martin Kochesoko (Kochesokov), a Circassian activist and founder of the public organization "Khabze", to the register of foreign agents. The Memorial Human Rights Center recognized him as a person persecuted for political reasons. Kochesoko currently lives in Turkey.