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In Adjara, a young man and two of his acquaintances are suspected of abducting a minor girl, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia reports today.

A person close to leaders of the Batal-Khadi's wird (concept) organized the assassination of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), for 60 million roubles, said Shamil Bulguchev, a native of Ingushetia, in his appeal to the leader of the republic.

Eric Arutyunyan, a conscript of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has died on the way to hospital, investigators have reported today.

After the experimental performance staged in Yerevan with the financial support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, the youth wing of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Party has demanded to dismiss the Minister, Araik Arutyunyan.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has called on his ill-wishers and critics to weigh up their words before writing anything. A video with his statement and a comment thereon were posted on his Instagram page by Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Press Minister.

In his interview, Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov and his comrades, but not to the people who suffered from his actions, the residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated. Internet users have expressed indignation that Ramzan Kadyrov's official has not been punished.

Nika Gvaramiya, a former director general of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, is accused of having bought a Porsche car for 76,700 euros by reducing the cost of advertising on the TV channel. Gvaramiya himself, as well as experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have linked the new charge with the pressure on free media in Georgia.

A resident of Azerbaijan was killed while trying to illegally return to the country from Iran with drugs and weapons; two more people were detained, the Azerbaijani State Border Service (SBS) has informed.

Isa Ibragimov, Chechen Minister for Youth Affairs, in his comments on the apologies of Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has in fact justified the use by the latter of an electric shocker (stun gun) against detainees, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has stated.

The author of "The Deceived" has raised an important problem; she should also tell about the fate of other residents of Dagestan who had joined militants in Syria, the YouTube and Facebook users who have watched the film believe.

After a complaint to President Putin about the bureaucratic arbitrariness in the village of Kenkhi, Islam Kadyrov came to the Sharoi District of Chechnya and threatened local public sector employees. This has been reported today by Ramazan Djalaldinov, an author of the complaint.

Amid the events organized by the authorities on the National Unity Day, many residents of the southern regions of Russia said they did not understand the meaning of the holiday. Some of them recalled with nostalgia the celebration of November 7, and residents of Ingushetia considered it more appropriate to pay tribute to the memory of victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict.

A resonance video reporting about a murder by an uncle of a teenage girl caught while behaving inappropriately is a lie, says a mother of the child. The woman confessed that she herself had disseminated the information. The incident will negatively affect the fate of the disgraced teenage girl, residents of Chechnya believe.

After Timur Khamkhoev, the former chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE), was sentenced and replaced by Ibragim Eldjarkiev, who was killed in Moscow on November 2, reports of physical pressure on suspects at the CCE did not stop. In particular, Abdulmalik Albagachiev and Albert Khamkhoev complained about violence.

Recognition by the US of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire; events in memory of victims of political repressions in Southern Russia; assassination of a top-ranking Ingush police officer in Moscow, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 28-November 3, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Elmira Kozhaeva, the editor-in-chief of the Nogai-language newspaper "The Voice of the Steppe – Shiol Tavysy", has shot the film "Deceived" about residents of the village of Kumli who left for Syria to take part in the combat actions against the government forces of Syria.

The authorities of South Ossetia forbade family members of local resident Tamar Gigauri, who was injured when falling into a well, to transport her to Tbilisi for medical treatment because of the closed administrative border.

Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, has admitted that his treatment of detained Grozny residents was "inadequate and inappropriate." However, he explained his actions by consequences of his grave traumas.

Within the photo exhibition "Contrary To", dedicated to the 76th anniversary of deportation of Karachay nationals, 260 portraits of residents of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) were presented.

The intensification of political repressions is noted throughout the country as a whole, and in Southern Russia, in particular, human rights defenders stated at a roundtable held in Moscow, citing the cases of Ingush activists and Anastasia Shevchenko from Rostov-on-Don as an example.