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Law enforcers copy the personal data of the parishioners of the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala in order to threaten them later with putting them on the so-called "prophylactic registry", the journalist, Idris Yusupov, has stated. Now, much fewer believers attend the Friday namaz (prayer), a mosque source has stated, linking this fact with to law enforcers' raids.

The police released the five LGBT activists, who were detained near the building of the Chechnya's permanent mission in Moscow and were still kept at the police station. Policemen saw propaganda of a "non-traditional sexual lifestyle" in the activists' action.

Residents of Chechnya claim that Apti Alaudinov, a deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, violated the etiquette, when he commented on the charges of conspiracy against Ramzan Kadyrov, lying on a sofa with legs.

On October 11, Tofig Mamedov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who held a solo picket in Baku, was placed behind bars for 10 days. It is his fourth detention since the start of the year.

Akhmed Pogorov, one of the leaders of the Ingush opposition, was detained in Karabulak after 5.5 months of search.

Amin Djabrailov is the first ethnic Chechen who, without hiding his name, told about the torture he was subjected in Chechnya for his sexual orientation, says the interview "I'm a good guy", posted on October 11 on the website of the Radio Liberty.

The Makhachkala Afghan War veterans, who are holding a picket, have ordered a large warmed-up tent and are ready to mobilize all their colleagues to make the protest massive. In Dagestan, they had solemnly opened the "Afghanets" rehabilitation centre for veterans, but it has never started working, said the picketers.

Today, participants of a picket in the Russian capital have demanded to investigate murders and torture of gays in Chechnya. Nine LGBT activists were taken to a police station.

Today, in Krasnodar, the court has pronounced a decision to fine advocate Mikhail Benyash 30,000 roubles, taking into account his one-month stay in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

The Volgograd authorities promised to repair a sports school building in the city after Yelena Isinbayeva, two-time Olympic pole vault champion, complained to President Putin about "the disgusting state" of the school's premises and gym.

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.