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The scandalous agreement on the borders between Chechnya and Ingushetia and the creation by Ramzan Kadyrov of a state commission to determine and confirm the administrative border of the republic have actualized the problem of disputed territories in Dagestan and the Stavropol Territory. Observers have expressed their concern about possible conflicts over the lands around Chechnya.

Lesbian girls in Chechnya have to completely obey the will of their parents; they are forced to endure beatings from relatives and to marry forcibly. Three Chechen girls of non-traditional sexual orientation who fled from Russia, despite the attempts of families to bring them home by force, told in their interview to Radio Liberty.

People in Moscow are coming today to the building of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, where 16 years ago Chechen militants captured 916 people as hostages. On October 26, 2002, at least 130 hostages died during the storming of the building.

Mikhail Benyash will be able to leave the SIZO (pre-trial prison), when a deposit of 600,000 roubles is received to the account of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation, the court in Krasnodar has ruled today.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today that the positions of its army deployed in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from large-calibre machine guns.

The natives of Northern Caucasus living in Turkey found the phrase about the Circassian woman in the "One Hope" TV series as offensive and demanded, at a rally, to stop further show of the serial.

The board of the inter-regional public organization named "Caucasian Cossack Line" has appealed to the leadership of the Stavropol Territory with a call to restore the historical justice and return the Naur and Shelkovskoy Districts of Chechnya to the Stavropol Territory.

The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has refused from the services of advocates Kheda Ibrieva and Andrei Sabinin. The judge has satisfied his motion and offered a state defender, if Khazbiev fails to find n advocate.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced the trip of a delegation from the French city of Saint-Étienne to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and the declaration signed during this visit to be illegal. The Mayor of Saint-Étienne will be put on the list of undesirable persons of the Azerbaijani MFA, who are banned from entering Azerbaijan.

The arrival of Ramzan Kadyrov in the village of Surkhakhi should not be treated as Evkurov's tripping; the head of Chechnya has rightly placed responsibility on Evkurov, Magomed Mutsolgov, an Ingush activist, has stated. In her turn, Svetlana Gannushkina, a rights defender, is sure that Kadyrov sought to harm his Ingush counterpart.

In Vladikavkaz, residents of North Ossetia gathered for a spontaneous action against the operation of the "Electrozinc" plant.

Religious activist Telman Shiraliev was arrested on the charge of possessing prohibited items in a penal colony while preparing for release from prison. Filing new charges against political prisoners at the end of their imprisonment sentences is a new trend in prosecution of activists in Azerbaijan, report rights defenders.

The demand of the Chechen leader to identify fraudsters wanting to get free housing has turned into large-scale inspections of dormitories with eviction of people. Residents of dormitories are evicted to their relatives without presenting documents, local residents report.

Fire at the "Electrozinc" plant in Vladikavkaz; resignation of Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan; temporary pause in the Magas protest, - see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 15-21, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Two out of four Georgian citizens, who were detained on October 20 at the border with South Ossetia, turned out to be priests and were released without fines for humanitarian reasons, reports today the KGB for South Ossetia.

Out of more than 20 people killed in a shooting and an explosion at the Kerch College, three were buried in the Krasnodar Territory. Local residents report they fell anxiety over the fate of their children in schools.

Two Ingush activists, who apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov for criticism, continued the practice of public repentance, reported residents of Chechnya.

In Chechnya, during the firing practice, a soldier was killed by an accidental shot, the military commandant's office reported.

The ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated 22 times over a day, and the positions of the Azerbaijani army in the village of Zamanly came under fire, reports today the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan.

On the eve of a visit to Azerbaijan of US national security adviser John Bolton, the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has urged him to raise before Baku officials the issues of human rights violations and persecution of journalists and activists.