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More 30 soldiers were killed in the Karabakh conflict zone, and the total number of killed service personnel of the Defence Army reached 339, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

A video appeal voiced by a father of a kidnapped moderator of the 1Adat Telegram Channel was recorded under pressure, and the whereabouts of Salman Tepsurkaev is still unknown, note some Instagram users. Their opponents argue that it is necessary to listen to Shirvani Tepsurkaev and stop discussing the torture his son had been subjected to.

This night, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh came under Azerbaijan's missile fire, Armenian authorities have stated.

In the Karabakh conflict zone, villages of the Barda, Agdjabedi, Goranboy, Terter and Agdam Districts are being shelled; there are dead and wounded, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Anna Politkovskaya was a bright example of an honest journalist who did not break down under authorities' pressure, those who took part in the memorial action in Moscow have stated. In a year, the statute of limitations for her murder case will expire; and the still unfound customer will remain unpunished, Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, has stated.

Most of October 7, residents of Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, spent in basements of their houses, equipped as shelters. All shops are closed, but townspeople have assured that they have everything they need.

Gezyal Bairamly, a famous politician and a former political prisoner, has died in Azerbaijan after a grave illness. Her colleagues and supporters are sure that her imprisonment had aggravated the disease.

Grozny has opened a new entrance arch from the side of the city of Argun. Residents of Chechnya reacted sceptically to the inscription "Akhmat is power" that crowns the arch.

On the anniversary of the murder of the journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, an audio version of her report was made public, saturated with psychologically hard scenes from her trip to Ramzan Kadyrov's residence in 2004, and from her interview, at the end of which she expected gunfire in her back.

The losses of the Defence Army are much higher than those announced; soldiers lack ammunition, volunteers in Nagorno-Karabakh assert. Local residents associate the shelling strengthening with Azerbaijan's desire to push forward the frontline before an imminent ceasefire.

In his new video message, Shirvani Tepsurkaev has called to "close the topic" with his son, stating that he was satisfied with the responses of Chechen authorities and had no complaints against them. However, the authors of the 1Adat Telegram Channel are sure that Salman's father was forced to record the new appeal because information appeared that two kidnappers of his son had been recognized.

Two experts were detained for using incorrect maps of the wrong scale when determining the border with Azerbaijan. Investigators suggest that because of their actions, Georgia has lost more than 3500 hectares of territory.

In Gudermes, officials attended a ceremony to commission a residential building without wearing protective masks, local residents reported. According to them, the top-ranking officials of Chechnya follow the example of Ramzan Kadyrov and openly violate the mask regime.

The footage of the video about the sending of Chechen natives to Nagorno-Karabakh does not contain any explicit signs to identify the location of the shooting, although military vehicles in the video are typical for the Middle East, experts says. The parties do not emphasize the religious background of the conflict, but it is the key motive for the natives of Chechnya, suggests Caucasian expert Akhmet Yarlykapov.

In Berlin, a court held the first hearing in a case on the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge. The defendant, who identified himself as construction worker Vadim Sokolov, exercised his right to remain silent. Political refugee Rubati Mitsaeva expressed hope that he would not be extradited to Russia.

Muslims in Georgia are discriminated more often than adherents of other faiths, the NGO "Human Rights Training and Monitoring Centre" has stated.

The video clip about the Chechens sent to the war in Nagorno-Karabakh was actually filmed in the Crimea, as evidenced by the bridge caught in the clip.

Because of frequent missile attacks, Stepanakert townspeople are afraid to leave their shelters for a long time; there are interruptions in communications and power supply in the city. As a result of the shelling, 23 civilians were killed, more than 90 others were wounded, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson has stated.

Azerbaijan does not publish the names of its military servicemen perished during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, as it suffers great losses, but the society is ready for them, Pavel Felgengauer, a military expert, believes. The data on losses among Azerbaijani militaries is not published in order not to corrupt the nation's morale, Alexander Perendjiev, another expert, has noted.

Women, children and the elderly have left a number of Azerbaijani villages located in the frontline area, but other villagers would not leave their homes and households for a long time, Avaz Gasanov, an activist, has informed. There are children and women among shelling victims.