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On October 24, a patrol of the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) was detained for some time by agents of the KGB of South Ossetia on a disputable section of the border with Georgia. The European External Action Service (EEAS) called the situation a "serious incident" and stated it would achieve diplomatic response.

A video about the brutality of Islam Kadyrov, the former Mayor of Grozny, also describes the methods applied by other Chechen officials, some users of social networks believe. They expressed their astonishment by the fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is not going to punish accomplices of the former Mayor.

The train traffic along the South Caucasus Railway has been resumed after its managers made concessions to the locomotive drivers on strike.

On October 24, Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has become one of five officials in the regions of Southern Russia, appointed acting secretaries of regional branches of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party. Ramzan Kadyrov, who had earlier criticized Magomed Daudov, approved his appointment.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched a check after the publication of the images, in which Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, threatens local residents with execution and uses an electric shocker. The information released on October 24 had earlier become the reason for the dismissal of the official, the authorities of Chechnya have explained.

A court in Baku has sentenced Sevinj Abbasova, a former school principal, to restriction of liberty, finding her guilty under the case of an eighth-grader's death. Relatives of the casualty decided to seek imprisonment for the former school principal.

Fighters of the military police unit stationed in Chechnya have arrived on the Syrian-Turkish border to ensure security of the population in the warfare zone.

The conflict of two Chechen families of farmers in the Rostov Region, in which five persons perished, will lead to blood feud, the residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" suggest.

The resignation from the post of the curator of the territorial sector has not reduced the influence of Magomed Daudov; however, the first public criticism from Ramzan Kadyrov is a bad sign for him, Ruslan Kutaev, an activist, and Ruslan Gereev, a publicist, believe.

The Dagestani MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov doesn't fight for Russia, because he goes out without the Russian flag, said his rival Conor McGregor. According to Conor, his revenge fight with Khabib is inevitable.

The actions of law enforcers in Baku on October 19 and 20 violated the right of Azerbaijani citizens to peaceful assembly. After two protests, 34 people were arrested' and the country's authorities should immediately release them, the Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) has stated.

The Ministry of National Relations (MNR) of North Ossetia is seeking to criminally prosecute Artyom Plato, a video blogger, who called the right-hand bank of Vladikavkaz the Ingush one.

A court pronounced a decision to arrest Arsen Babayan, the former deputy chief of the administration of the Armenian parliament, in a case on changing the chair of the Constitutional Court.

Criticism of the Sufism will be a pretext for a new attack of the authorities on blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, believe some participants of discussions in social networks. Other Internet users noted that earlier, no people professing Sufism had been among the blogger's audience anyway.

By hiding information from the Georgian society, the Georgian secret services pose a threat of open armed conflict on the border, states the KGB of South Ossetia. Today, the Georgian secret services have called the South-Ossetian KGB's statement an attempt to justify provocations from the South-Ossetian side.

Sources from the administration of Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned an engagement in different tasks and challenges as the reason for the release of Magomed Daudov from his duties of a supervisor of two Chechen districts. Meanwhile, the sources also pointed to a nervous atmosphere among subordinates of the leader of Chechnya.

An Alexander Golovin's painting is removed from an exhibition and will be returned to the museum in Grozny, the Tretyakov Gallery reports.

Social network users criticized Malika Djikaeva, a blogger from North Ossetia, for posting a frivolous video in hijab. Some of the users treated the video as a way for the promotion of the young woman's account.

On October 23, the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC) held a meeting at the Open Society Georgia Centre, where the results of a survey of labour safety conditions at Georgian enterprises were presented to the public.

In his complaint to Yuri Chaika, the General Public Prosecutor of Russia, Musa Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, demanded to take the investigation of his application about torture under control. According to Aliev, law enforcers first beat him up, trying to get a confession to raping a girl, and then began threatening his family.