In the city of Moscow, law enforcement officers accepted the statement of a native of the North Caucasus, who was attacked by local residents because of wearing a hijab. The resonant incident occurred at the end of August, when the victim was walking with her eight-year-old son.

The participants of the international conference "Defeating Putinism" taking place in Tbilisi were read the address of the American President of 2001-2009, George W. Bush. This is reported by "Echo of the Caucasus".

Armenian units opened fire on Azerbaijani positions in the Kelbajar region. This was announced today by the Defense Ministry of Azerbaijan. Yerevan, however, denies the charges.

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.