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The editor-in-chief of Meydan TV, Aynur Elgunesh, needs urgent surgery due to serious kidney problems. The defense and international human rights activists have warned of a threat to her life and called for the release of the 51-year-old journalist on medical and humanitarian grounds.

Specialists eliminated the consequences of the accident, after which residents of four villages in the Karabudakhkent district were left without water.

The court in Baku sentenced eight citizens of Azerbaijan to prison terms ranging from 8.5 to 13 years, recognizing them as participants in a terrorist organization.

The leader of the opposition Georgian party, convicted for damaging the mayor of Tbilisi's election poster, was transferred from the Rustavi prison to a capital clinic for examination.

The authorities of the Dakhadayevsky district awarded the relatives of four servicemen killed in combat operations in Ukraine. Since the beginning of the military operation, at least 2185 fighters from Dagestan have been officially recognized as killed in it.

Emergency crews eliminated the consequences of short circuits, after which residents of four districts of Dagestan were left without electricity.

Arthur Varzhapetyan, co-founder of one of the largest Russian companies in the alcohol import sector, was taken to a police station in Yerevan but was later released. This occurred against the backdrop of criticism directed at the company "Luding," voiced at a press conference by Nikol Pashinyan.

Representatives of civil society in Azerbaijan criticized the court's decision to impose a suspended sentence on former presidential administration head Ramiz Mehdiyev for treason. They pointed to the lack of transparency in the judicial process and the disproportionate nature of the punishment relative to the severity of the charges.

The Armenian Parliament ratified the framework agreement on strategic cooperation between Armenia and the USA regarding the "Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity" at its meeting on October 28.

The police's refusals to initiate cases based on the statements of Ekaterina Abramova, who has been recognized as a victim in the case of embezzlement of funds from shareholders, were deemed illegal by the prosecutor's office of the Central District of Sochi. Abramova herself believes that the document was backdated.

The court in Sochi sentenced three police officers to real prison terms for not documenting a migration violation at the request of an official.

The court in North Ossetia sentenced a citizen of Ukraine to a long term, finding him guilty of spying on the military.

The climber from Karachay-Cherkessia, Mikhail Semenov, remains in the punishment isolation cell of the Moscow region colony and is not receiving medication, while official authorities respond to complaints with standard replies, his wife stated.

Junior Sergeant Pavel Mineev from the Yenotaevsky District was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, at least 765 fighters from the Astrakhan region have been officially recognized as killed.

The temporary crossing built for filling the beaches of Anapa with imported sand, which were affected by an oil spill, has been dismantled, and at the same time, the mouth of the Anapka River was cleaned.

The law enforcement agencies denied Armenian citizen Angelika Tsivinskaya the initiation of a case regarding the illegal abduction of children by their father; the decision will be appealed.

Protesters gathered in the center of Tbilisi marked the 700th day of continuous actions with a musical performance, striking drums 700 times. The European Court of Human Rights has begun reviewing the case regarding the pre-trial detention and forced psychiatric examination of activist Nino Datashvili.

South African authorities seized five baobabs from a shipping company intended for shipment to Georgia; a criminal case is being investigated. Several years earlier, eight trees imported from Kenya to Georgia died. The administration of the dendrological park created by Bidzina Ivanishvili accused the opposition of creating delays that led to the death of the baobabs.

Kona Mulaev from the Sarpinsky district was killed in combat. Since the beginning of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities and security forces have acknowledged at least 271 fighters from Kalmykia as killed.

As a result of a major breakthrough of the main water pipeline, residents of four settlements in the Karabudakhkent district: Manaskent, Zelenomorsk, Ullubiyau and Achchisu will be without water supply from October 29 to 31.