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Officials from the Dagestani Ministry of Education and Science and the City Education Department explained the collection of information about girls wearing hijabs in Makhachkala schools by an initiative of teachers. City residents expressed their indignation by the fact that the information is being collected without the knowledge of the schoolgirls' parents.

In the evening on October 10, Musa Musaev, the former Mayor of Makhachkala, was released after almost two years of imprisonment in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) and a penal colony, his advocate reported. The Musa Musaev's early release will not affect the cases of other officials, Dagestani journalists believe.

On October 10, in Tbilisi, the court upheld all restrictions imposed on opposition MP Nika Meliya, including a ban on uncontrolled leaving of an apartment. Nika Meliya said that he would no longer sit at home and continue carrying out his political activities.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

On October 10, a group of forced migrants held a protest action in Baku demanding to provide them with comfortable housing. Officials have promised to give apartments to 3700 migrants by the end of the year.

The case of the Circassian activist, accused of drug storage, has been returned for additional investigation.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Adygea found as justified the lawsuit lodged by activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), who demand to ban the construction of a road in the territory of the natural monument "Heads of Pshekha and Pshekhashkha Rivers".

The first complaint of an Ingush oppositionist, arrested after the March rallies in Magas, has been filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Akhmed Barakhoev, one of the leaders of the protests, demands to recognize a violation of his rights under four articles.

On October 11, the monasteries of Udabno and Chichkhituri of the David Gareja Complex, closed because of the conflict with Azerbaijan, will open for Georgian clergymen. The Patriarchate has stated that it has the right of ownership on these monasteries.

The investigator persuaded the wife of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik", to testify, but she refused to evidence against her husband. The woman is his public defender and cannot be a witness.

In Chechnya, the unique "Twin Towers" tourist complex worked for the first week in the mountainous Itum-Kale District. So far, tourists do not book rooms in advance, and tour operators do not organize trips to the new tourist complex.

In the Tskhinvali penal colony, some of the prisoners who declared a hunger strike are forced to accept food, while several inmates continue the protest action, reports the South-Ossetian Minister of Justice. According to relatives, warders beat six prisoners.

The Armenian authorities decided to remove the Armenian population from Syria, which came under fire of the Turkish army, and called on the international community to protect the rights of national and religious minorities in the area of hostilities.

On October 9, two residents of Chechnya, who reported about kidnapping of a child in Kurchaloi, voiced public apologies on the air of the ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company). The apologies of the people declared to be authors of the rumours were voiced in the presence of law enforcers.

Today, Yulia Yuzik, the author of books on the conflict in Northern Caucasus, who had been detained in Iran, arrived in Moscow, the Russian Embassy has informed.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled in the villages of the Gazakh and Gadabay Districts, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The film "Father and Sons from Krotovo" by film directors Valery and Evgeny Solomin has been recognized as the best documentary at the "Kunaki" Film Festival held in Nalchik.

A court in Stavropol has sentenced two members of the international neo-Nazi organization "Misanthropic Division" (MD), banned in Russia, to long prison terms.

The father of a seven-year-old girl has confessed to beating the girl because she had not opened the door to him.

The resident of Ingushetia, whom the speaker of the Chechen parliament made an appointment on the border of the two republics, has himself come to Magomed Daudov with his father. According to Daudov, the young man apologized to him.