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The "Balapanlar" project, within which children from the Nogai District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) studied their mother tongue, played national musical instruments and practiced the jiu-jitsu wrestling in a summer school, took the first place in the Google's contest "Afar from the Capital" in the nomination "Education and Development".

As of November 1, the highest unemployment level is fixed in Ingushetia, where every tenth citizen is jobless.

Today, a Stavropol court has fined Ivan Tanskiy, the coordinator of the local office of Alexei Navalny, for participating in an unsanctioned protest action on October 7.

In the course of the rally in Volgograd, policemen detained Alexei Volkov, the coordinator of the local Alexei Navalny's office.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has sent questions to the government of Russia on the complaint of a woman from Ingushetia about the extrajudicial execution of her son Muslim Kuriev, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported today.

Today, the police and independent observers counted about 1000 participants of the rally, organized by supporters of the opposition leader Alexei Navalny in Volgograd. According to volunteers, about 1800 were present at the rally.

Yerevan hosted a closed screening of the film "postDIY" referring to a story of a pub which sheltered people with non-traditional sexual orientation and was blown up in 2012.

On November 9, the Volgograd emergency services got to their mailboxes the letters reporting preparation of terror acts. Anonymous letters alleged that bombs had been planted in cinemas, schools, and shopping centres. Anonymous authors noted law enforcers have one day only to find explosive devices, the Volgograd edition "City News" reports.

The action held on November 9 near the building of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya was not spontaneous, but it was organized by the authorities of the region, reported participants of the action.

Investigators did not find out any involvement of policemen in an attempt to kidnap a son of Nigmatulla Radjabov, Imam of the Makhachkala Salafi mosque. This was reported by a response got by the Imam from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

A list with the names of 231 Russian citizens, most of whom are natives of Chechnya and Dagestan, has been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to resolve the problem of their return from Iraq to their homeland. This has been reported by Joanna Paraschuk, an analyst of the British analytical centre IHS.

The decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya on the lawsuit of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against the "Civil Assistance" Committee, "Novaya Gazeta" and Ramazan Djalaldinov will be appealed against, the rights defendants have stated.

The health state of Khachatur Gichyan accused of support for the unit "Sasna Tsrer" has deteriorated. He was transferred to a hospital for prisoners.

Law enforcers have detained several residents of the Dagestani village of Rutul, accusing them of setting fire to the district administration building, their fellow villagers have reported. Relatives of the detained men assert that narcotic drugs and ammunition were planted on them at detention.

Today, Karen Karapetyan, Prime Minister of Armenia, met a group of striking Yerevan students and asked them to wait till the adoption of the law that would cancel the postponement of the military service. The students, who demand the revocation of the bill, announced that they would continue their protest actions.

The 2017 Andrei Sakharov Prize is awarded for the efforts of journalists and rights defenders to combat torture and other human rights violations in Russia. This has been reported today by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

The "Civil Assistance" Committee, Ramazan Djalaldinov and "Novaya Gazeta" have disgraced the reputation of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the Supreme Court of Chechnya has decided and refused to satisfy the rights defendants' appeal.

The "FlyDubai" airline company should pay compensation to family members of the passengers killed a plane crash in Rostov-on-Don, since the crash happened because of pilots' error. This has been reported today by an advocate. The "FlyDubai" airline company has reported it is ready to provide fair compensation.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has found out that four Russia skiers took doping and annulled their results at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.

Relatives of the people disappeared in Chechnya, whose names appeared in the "execution list," were taken under state protection. This has been reported today by the Russia's Ombudsperson with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya.