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Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Minister for National Policy and External Relations, has called the table game "Vampire: The Masquerade", in which the republic is ruled by a clan of vampires, a part of the information war.

The statement of law enforcers that those killed in the shootout in Chechnya had links with militants is not convincing enough, but people need to wait for the investigators' conclusions, experts believe. The casualties were buried in a nameless grave, said a relative of one of them.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed a complaint about the arrest for 10 days of Zaur Rovshanli, a board member of the D18 Civil Movement. His defence intends to challenge the legality of the arrest at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

During the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 27 times, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

A proposal of Ingush activists to hold a volunteer clean-up day (subbotnik) in disputed territories after signing the Ingush-Chechen border agreement may increase disagreements of the two peoples, social network users assert.

The Armenian Cassation Court has partially granted the petition of the Prosecutor General, who demanded to arrest Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, within the case dispersing demonstrators in 2008. The Court of Appeal (CoA) will again consider the issue of Kocharyan's arrest.

The refusal to investigate the case of torture of Murad and Firuddin Ragimov, natives of Dagestan, has violated the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the Committee against Torture (CaT) has stated.

The documentary film "Porok" (Vice) about corruption in Dagestan was presented at the Bishkek Film Festival. It tells about the organization "Patient's Monitor", which is engaged in the protection of citizens' rights in the field of public health. Since the start of 2018, the organization, according to its leaders, has helped Dagestani privileged patients to receive medicines worth over 10 million roubles.

The authorities of the Shamil District of Dagestan, where the Gasanguseinov brothers were killed, have established a volleyball tournament in their memory and began building a pitch for it.

The kidnappers of Rustam Lyanov did not post a recorded video, as the public outcry around the kidnapping made this act senseless. The incident was an attempt to introduce in Ingushetia the practice of public apologies widespread in Chechnya, activists believe.

The Presidium of the World Congress of the Ingush People has announced a subbotnik in the disputed lands along the Fortanga River to be held on November 17.

Ramzan Kadyrov's account on Instagram is again not available, despite the statement about the "triumph of justice" voiced by the leader of Chechnya. An Instagram spokesperson clarified that the page was unblocked by mistake.

Zaza Saralidze, a father of a schoolboy killed in Tbilisi, has submitted to the police screenshots of messages he received through social networks with threats of physical violence and insults.

The "Roskomnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media) explained the disconnection of the Internet by the decision of the law enforcement bodies.

The authorities of Chechnya should announce the reason for publishing the map of the republic, which included some territories of Dagestan, note activists.

The leader of Chechnya has commented on a shootout in the Urus-Martan District and blamed heads of families for the fact that their children "went to fight."

In Russia, the sphere of military tourism, which the authorities of Chechnya decided to promote, is poorly developed, experts of the tourism industry have noted. To promote the project, a lot of hard and delicate work is needed, says Dmitry Danilenko, the editor-in-chief of a tourist portal, believes.

The village of Dattykh, which Ingush intend to restore, was abandoned by residents after shelling in 2015. People come here to look after cattle and cemeteries. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has visited the ravaged village, which has attracted attention amid the confrontation because of the change of border with Chechnya.

Nemat Panakhly, the Chairman of the National Statehood Party of Azerbaijan, has been released from arrest.

About 7000 Russian women asked Russian authorities to help them return home from the warfare zone in the Middle East, but since the start of the year, none of the wives of former militants has returned to Russia, the participants in a press conference in Moscow have stated.