The United States does not see any complications in its mediation between Azerbaijan and Armenia due to the joint military exercises being conducted in Armenia. 175 Armenian and 85 American soldiers take part in them.

Azamat Eyupov, sentenced to 17 years in prison, was transported from Crimea to the prison in the city of Verkhneuralsk, Chelyabinsk region. Last year, a Crimean Tatar suffered four ischemic strokes in a pre-trial detention center; his leg does not function, but he was never sent to the hospital.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview with Armenian television that his wife’s visit to Ukraine with charitable support, Yerevan’s ratification of the Rome Statute with the issuance of an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin and the American-Armenian military exercises are not related to the Russian Federation, “although they are a reason for anxiety."

On the night of September 11, in the village of Chiri-Yurt, near house 16, a 19-year-old resident of the village of Zone was killed (his last name could not be established). In connection with the hostilities, he was forced to leave his native places and, in fact, was a refugee.

Cases of administrative violence and torture against citizens have again become more frequent in Azerbaijan. This is stated in a statement by the National Council of Democratic Forces of Azerbaijan.

In the Southern District Military Court in Rostov today, the verdict was to be announced on the editor of the Dagestan publication Chernovik, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, and two other defendants in the case, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov.

“Crimean Solidarity” activists from Bakhchisaray Seydamet Mustafayev, Eldar Yakubov, Abdulmedzhit Seitumerov, Ruslan Asanov, Ametkhan Umerov and Remzi Nimetulaev were left in pre-trial detention until October 23.

Georgia has abolished the visa regime for Chinese citizens. Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced this at a government meeting in Tbilisi.

The Memorial Human Rights Center published a report, “Enforced Disappearances in Chechnya.” It states that Russia leads Europe in the number of enforced disappearances in the 21st century.

Russian telegram channels report that the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, blamed the former Minister of Health and Deputy Prime Minister of the republic Elkhan Suleymanov for the deterioration of his health and brutally executed him. Kadyrov decided that Suleymanov was deliberately trying to poison him and buried him in the ground.