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The monument, into foundation of which the first boulder was placed today, will be erected in the village of Bavuko of the Khabez District. The construction was initiated by a local resident who himself fell victim to political repressions.

In the opinion of Bagrat Asatryan, an economist, one of the reasons for a significant decline in economic activity in the country is the Armenia's political uncertainty. Artak Manukyan, an advisor to the Acting Premier Nikol Pashinyan on economic issues, has acknowledged that the structure of the economy should be radically revised.

Zaza Saralidze spent four days in hospital, and, after being discharged, joined the protest action held outside the building of the Georgian Parliament. He expressed his mistrust in the Prosecutor's Office, which runs the case of his beating up a policeman.

The decision of the Ingush Constitutional Court (CC) does not cancel the border agreement with Chechnya, as it has entered into force, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has stated. In his opinion the CC of Russia should settle the issue.

After the detention of Abutalip Shakhruev, a resident of Makhachkala, law enforcers forced him by torture to defame himself. Shakhruev has filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

After the complaint lodged by lawyers of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), investigators began the 18th check of the application of the Chechen athlete, Murad Amriev, about torture by law enforcers in Grozny.

The law on fixing a new border with Chechnya fails to comply with the Constitution of Ingushetia, this border issue should be resolved by a referendum, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ingushetia has decided.

The "Association of Victims of Illegal Political Repressions" in Volgograd may stop its work due to a lack of money to rent its office, the head of the organization told the rally in memory of the victims of repressions.

The positions of the Azerbaijani army in the village of Bala Jafarli were shelled 25 times a day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports.

The closure of the "Electrozinc" plant will leave 2000 people without means of support, workers of the plant pointed out. Vyacheslav Bitarov, the leader of North Ossetia, proposed to restructure the plant to employ some of its employees.

Supporters of Rafik Andreasyan, the former head of the Urtsadzor community, said that the authorities ignored their demands. According to them, Gevorg Avetisyan, the acting head of the community, continued to come to job, despite the agreement that he would be temporarily suspended from office. Gevorg Avetisyan's supporters plan to continue the protests.

On October 30, the leader of the "Yabloko" Party branch called on Sochi residents to pay tribute to the memory of the people who fell victim to political repression. In response, a policeman handed over to her a warning about the inadmissibility of holding unsanctioned mass actions.

The Law "On the rehabilitation of repressed peoples" has generated a lot of tension, since the return of lands to repressed peoples has become an impossible task. This opinion was voiced by Yan Rachinski, the chair of the board for the international society "Memorial".

Two members of the Ingush parliament and two residents of the republic have decided not to seek a check of the law approving the new Chechen-Ingush border by the Constitutional Court (CC) and recalled their requests.

During the week of October 22-28, 2018, there were no casualties and victims in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

At the polling station in Tbilisi, where the presidential candidate Salome Zurabishvili voted, some people were on duty, who gave money to voters, observers have stated. However, the voters, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", insisted that no one tried to bribe them or put pressure on them.

Adam Ilyasov, Deputy Mufti of Chechnya and Kadi of Grozny, reproached Isa Khamkhoev, Mufti of Ingushetia, after his reply to Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament. Adam Ilyasov blamed Isa Khamkhoev for stirring up the conflict and mentioned how he sought support in Chechnya.

Tariq Topçu, a student of the Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU), a citizen of Turkey and Germany of Circassian origin, has complained that his permission to temporarily reside in Russia had been annulled.

Viewers of the film "Deep Rivers" directed by a film producer from Nalchik left emotional comments in social networks. The people who liked the film especially noted that its characters spoke the Kabardian language. Critics expressed their claims to the author and stated that the described defects are not typical for the Adyg people.

According to the results reported when 99.95% of the ballots had been calculated, a gap between Salome Zurabishvili and Grigol Vashadze, a candidate of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, was less than 1%. Since none of the candidates running for the presidency gains 50% required to win, the second round of the election will be held.