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Chingiz Akhmadov, an employee of the Chechen television, has shown a man in the video, who, according to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had been killed. The man was named as a relative of Islam Kadyrov, whose name was mentioned in connection with the attempt on the head of Chechnya.

The organizer of the event, Saida Tuchalova, has pointed out just single aggression acts towards the participants of the "AniDag" anime festival, which was disrupted because of threats in 2018. Spectators of the festival have noted its importance for self-realization of Dagestani youth.

At his solo picket in Makhachkala, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the assassinated shepherd brothers, has demanded to dismiss the policeman, Ibragim Aliev, who had reported about the killing of two militants.

An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was detained in front of the courthouse before the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrest of rally participant Abdullah Makhmudov. The PFPA associates the detention of its activist with the preparation of a new rally.

In Dagestan, two wives of a militant killed in Syria got pensions for the loss of primary income earner for more than three years. They are suspected of forging documents, a source reports.

A scandal around video records with the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov did not get a resonance in the public institutions, noted residents of Chechnya and users of social networks. They fear that the verification of the video records made public will not lead to the criminal proceedings against the former mayor of Grozny.

In Tbilisi, the court refused to grant the victim status to the activists who suffered during the dispersal of a rally in front of the parliament building. The authorities do not want the protesters to gain access to the case file, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) states.

The film "Daimokhk" about Chechen choreographer Ramzan Akhmadov will not be shown during the screenings of the Artdocfest festival in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, since "that will be safer for its heroes," film director Masha Novikova says.

Video records showing the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny confirm the statement of Tumso Abdurakhmanov about his conflict with Islam Kadyrov, YouTube users note.

Seimour Khazi, the deputy chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), claims the charges of disorderly conduct and of failure to obey to the police brought against him are false. He associates his arrest with his participation in the preparation of an opposition rally.

The footage about the visit of the ABC's filming crew and the confession of the journalist, James Longman, to homosexuality has led to the appearance of a large number of homophobic comments in the popular Chechen publics. However, some users have called for tolerance. The story of persecutions of LGBT people in Chechnya has not been forgotten, said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network.

The Committee against Repressions and Torture has announced the start of a 10-day-long public campaign in Azerbaijan under the slogan "End to torture!"

A series of solo pickets in support of Aslan Iritov, the head of the organization "Volny Aul" (Free Village), will be held on October 31. The action is timed to the second anniversary of the clashes with law enforcers in the yard of Iritovs' house.

Salikh Ibn Baz, a descendant of the former Mufti of Saudi Arabia, has accused the head of Chechnya of lying about Wahhabis and oppressions of Muslims. The religious advisor to Ramzan Kadyrov has invited him to Chechnya, but Ibn Baz expressed his contempt for Kadyrov.

Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, publicly exposed for his cruelty, demonstrates the absence of problems in his life, as it follows from the videos posted in social networks.

In the capital of Dagestan, activists have held a series of pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

The Chechen authorities have shown their dominance in a dispute with Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who criticizes the Ramzan Kadyrov's regime, by providing him with full versions of videos about the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov, the former mayor of Grozny. The blogger regarded the scandalous TV report about Islam Kadyrov as an attempt to get ahead of his posts.

A former official from the Kizlyar District was beaten at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Khasavyurt, reports his brother Ismail Magomedsharipov, a member of the parliament of Dagestan. Facebook users note that officials also began to suffer from the "legal arbitrariness" in the republic and reproached the Magomedsharipov brothers for the indifference to cases of human rights violations.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were subjected to shelling attacks, including from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Shootout between Chechen farmers in the Rostov Region; Magomed Daudov's removal from the supervision of the territorial sector in Chechnya and information on checking a video about the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny; railway workers' strike in Armenia; unusual personnel decisions made by President of Azerbaijan; mass protest rally in Elista, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 21-27, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".