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Residents of the village of Shushiya, who have earlier dug up the road in protest against the delay in the allocation of land plots to them, have restored the road.

At the trial in the case of an attempt to create a caliphate in Kabardino-Balkaria, Inna Urchukova, a prosecution witness, said she was not aware of the defendants' relationship with the armed underground. The prosecution witness has retracted her testimony given during the preliminary investigation.

On October 27, the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia started the next court hearing in the case against female activists of the "Voice of Beslan" with viewing of a video record of the protest action of September 1, 2016, provided by the Department for the Pravoberezhny District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

lyal Djatdoev, a 53-year-old resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), detained on suspicion of killing Judge Ruslan Botashev, called the judge's decision to reduce his pension to be the motive for the murder, investigators report.

The Ministry has explained today that the demand of its boss to provide information about the accounts of the employees of its subordinate mass media was issued with the aim to find active Internet users among journalists and authorize them to run official pages in social networks.

Khaiser Djemilev has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg Court about Russia and Ukraine, his advocate Nikolai Polozov said today.

The Amnesty International (AI), a human rights organization, has urged Russian authorities to investigate the statements of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh (also written as Stanislaw Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk), citizens of Ukraine, convicted in Russia, about use of torture to them during the investigation.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO), cancelled today in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, was preceded by twelve other CTOs, announced in Southern Dagestan since the start of 2016. Five of them were conducted in the Magaramkent District.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the appeal filed by Azerbaijani oppositionist Aidyn Shukyurov about violation of his rights during the parliamentary elections held in 2010. The Strasbourg Court has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay Aidyn Shukyurov compensation in the total amount of 11,000 euro.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, Ruslan Botashev, the acting chairman of the Malokarachay District Court, was shot dead in his own car in the village of Pervomaiskoe, reports the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Buynaksk, two persons continue their hunger strike with the demand to cancel the results of the elections to the People's Assembly of Dagestan. The rest hunger-strikers had to stop their protest action because of deterioration of their health state. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Kamil Shakhbulatov, the chief of the Buynaksk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and a former participant of the hunger strike.

This morning, law enforcers have lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the Dagestani village of Tagirkent-Kazmalyar of the Magaramkent District on October 26.

On October 20, the Dagestani Ministry of Press and Information sent to its all subordinated public institutions a resolution issued by Burliyat Tokbolatova with request to directors of the republic's state-run media to provide information about accounts of employees on the Internet.

Mothers of young men disappeared in Dagestan have founded the public movement "The Mother's Heart". According to members of the new movement, in Dagestan, disappearances are not investigated properly, and many of the incidents may involve the law enforcement bodies.

The village of Tagirkent-Kazmalyar, Magaramkent District, has been put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, the Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) has reported today. According to a Dagestani law enforcement source, in the course of the CTO, power agents entered a shootout with some persons, who had opened fire on them from a blocked house.

The regional public organization for promoting the protection of victims of the "Nord-Ost" terror act has held a commemorative action in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre on the 14th anniversary of the terror acts; the event was attended by about 300 people.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of South Ossetia holds an inquiry into the theft of money allocated for repairs of the apartment building No. 118 inHeroes Street in Tskhinvali. The repair epic lasts for eight years, the tenants of the luckless house told the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the sentence to two citizens of Ukraine, Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, convicted for taking part in the first Chechen war on the side of the militants.

Today, the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has started to consider an appeal filed against the verdict pronounced in the criminal case against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, accused of involvement in the first Chechen war on the side of the militants. The court session was attended by Nadezhda Savchenko, a deputy of the Ukrainian Rada, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. She expressed her support for the sentenced Ukrainian citizens.

The Prosecutor's Office has not found any confirmation of the information about the practice of female circumcision in Dagestan. Diana Gurtskaya, a member of the Public Chamber, has announced her intention to appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to initiate the repeated prosecutors' inspection.