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The film "Father and Sons from Krotovo" by film directors Valery and Evgeny Solomin has been recognized as the best documentary at the "Kunaki" Film Festival held in Nalchik.

A court in Stavropol has sentenced two members of the international neo-Nazi organization "Misanthropic Division" (MD), banned in Russia, to long prison terms.

The father of a seven-year-old girl has confessed to beating the girl because she had not opened the door to him.

The resident of Ingushetia, whom the speaker of the Chechen parliament made an appointment on the border of the two republics, has himself come to Magomed Daudov with his father. According to Daudov, the young man apologized to him.

During the last month, no investigative actions were conducted with Zarifa Sautieva. The judge of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Stavropol Territory came into the deliberation room for several minutes and announced the decision in the absence of the activist.

Relatives are still unaware of whereabouts of Asker Khamukov, the detained founder of the "One Body" Charity Fund. His sister, also suspected of financing terrorism, is being held at hospital under guard.

Elkhan Aliev and Alizamin Salaev, activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), detained on the eve of the action in Baku, have been sentenced to 15 days of arrest on charges of disobedience to the police. The party treats their arrest as politically motivated.

Apti Alaudinov, the boss of the Chechen Police, and Valid Abdureshidov, the head of the administration of the Urus-Martan District, have publicly stated that they had not betrayed Ramzan Kadyrov. Alaudinov voiced threats against journalists who wrote about a conspiracy against the head of Chechnya.

The Georgian National Tourism Administration calculated losses for July and August caused by termination of direct flights to and from Russia and also noted a decrease in the number of tourists in September. The "Georgian Airways" announced filing a lawsuit to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for the recovery of 25 million US dollars from the Russian Ministry of Transport.

A brother and a sister detained in Kabardino-Balkaria transferred six million roubles raised in different regions of Russia to militants in Syria, investigators have reported today.

On October 8, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliges Russia to pay over 3000 euros of compensation to Novocherkassk journalist Elena Nadtoka, who was fined in 2007 under the City Mayor's lawsuit on protection of honour.

The deadline for preservation of the Georgian citizenship for those who received it in another country has been extended until December 31, 2020. This year, a total of 9348 people applied for the return of Georgian citizenship, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has reported.

The activists, who threw eggs at the editorial office of the "Hayeli" (Mirror) portal, were released on recognizance not to leave, the Armenia's Investigating Committee (IC) has reported. The country's journalist organizations have condemned the attack and demanded from the authorities and the opposition to persuade their supporters to be restrained and tolerant.

The proposal of an official from Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue to legalize polygamy in the Muslim republics of Russia is legally impossible, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Tbilisi City Court has released, on bail in 2000 laris, Levan Djikuri, detained within the case of June protests.

Relatives of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, were summoned for questioning within his case. Gadji Gadjiev, Abdulmumin's brother, wrote a written refusal to testify and demanded explanations from the investigator why they prohibit relatives from visiting the journalist.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made its decision on the case "Khakimova et al versus Russia", obliging Russian authorities to pay compensations to relatives of seven missing residents of Chechnya.

Several residents of Chechnya, who went to North Ossetia to visit a fortune-teller, repented on the air of the Chechen state-run TV Company after a local theologian criticized their behaviour from the point of view of Islam and threatened them with hell. In the TV story, the women vowed that they would no longer address people providing occult services.

In Baku, law enforcers let only 50 people to attend a rally in defence of freedom of assembly. About 20 activists who tried to break through the police cordon were detained, oppositionists report.

Today, Uzbek athlete Bekzod Nurmatov who died after a fight in Grozny will be buried in his homeland. Users of social networks expressed their hope for the completion of the sports career of his rival Beslan Isaev, a fighter of mixed martial arts (MMA), and also demanded to ban the sport.