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Despite the objection of public prosecutor, the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has agreed with the arguments of defenders of Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh against special court ruling pronounced by the Supreme Court (SC) of the ChechenRepublic on violations of the law by advocates Dubrovina and Itslaev.

The court has sentenced Rakhman Bagbekov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, to 15 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony for the fact that he, according to the FSB Department, was trained for mine hardware at a training camp of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation by the court.

On October 25, in Makhachkala, the "Nadezhda" (Hope) Foundation engaged in providing assistance to the poor, which activities were disrupted after a search in its office, resumed its operation. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by Timur Gadjizharaev, the leader of the "Nadezhda" Foundation.

The sentence pronounced against activist Giyas Ibragimov is based on the falsified charge, and it demonstrates the authorities' fear of any kind of dissent. This was stated by the human rights organization "Freedom House".

No threats from employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were addressed to the participants of the "tractor march", said the Kuban farmers, refuting the information that Chechen power agents had forced them to abandon their protest actions.

Today, the North-Ossetian Supreme Court has held another session on the complaint of activists of the "Voice of Beslan". The court has ruled to mitigate the punishment of Zhanna Tsirikhova, a participant of the action in Beslan, by reducing the fine imposed on her, since she was just a participant, not an organizer of the action.

The police of Thuringia have failed to receive arrest warrants for 14 natives of Chechnya, detained today on suspicion of financing terrorist organizations; they were all released from the police station.

A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced the activist Giyas Ibragimov to 10 years in prison on charges of illegal drug dealing.

Today, Varvara Karaulova said at the court session that her marriage by means of the Skype to a militant, who was then in the territory of Syria, was concluded in retaliation to the alleged recruiter Airat Samatov.

Today is the end of the prison term of the Rostov journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik, who was sentenced to three years in colony.

The German law enforcement authorities have conducted several antiterrorist special operations in five federal states of Germany. 14 citizens of Russia, natives of Chechnya, are detained, the "Interfax" reports with reference to the local media without disclosing them.

The chief of the police unit and eight staff members of the criminal investigation department of the Vladikavkaz Police are charged with abuse of power and use of violence resulting in the death of a detainee. One of the defendants has concluded a pre-trial agreement on cooperation, reported investigators.

Igor Nagavkin, the leader of the regional branch of the movement "For Human Rights", has begun eating at SIZO (pre-trial prison) after he had started to receive medical treatment. This was reported by his advocate, who visited the human rights defender.

Photos of three Sakhalin residents of Caucasian appearance were disseminated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) through social networks as part of wanted bulletins for alleged militants from Dagestan. The Sakhalin residents, who were named in the wanted bulletins for the suspects killed during a special operation in Izberbash and Makhachkala, filed complaints to the Prosecutor's Office.

The opposition Georgian Labour Party has demanded to bring the former Georgian Prime Minister to criminal liability for involvement in illegal arms sales to Angola.

The Dagestani Imam Magomednabi Magomedov, convicted today by the North-Caucasian District Military Court, had received threats from militants, who demanded not to interfere with the departure of young people "to the forest," said Dagir Khasavov, the Imam's advocate.

A video record, showing a group of unidentified persons beating up a man, accused of drug dealing, has been broadly disseminated over the Chechen segment of the WhatsApp messenger. The residents of the republic, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", fear that power agents, inspired by Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about the need to severely punish drug dealers, may be involved in the beatings.

A package of proposals aimed to improve the legal environment for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) has been lodged to the Government of Azerbaijan by a group of 29 civil society activists. They offer to cancel the earlier adopted amendments, which toughen the control over NGOs, to simplify registration of them and the procedure of issuance and receiving of grants.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has stopped an investigation against the wrestler Besik Kudukhov, a native of South Ossetia, suspected of using doping, who perished in a road accident.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has found the Dagestani Imam Magomednabi Magomedov guilty of inciting terrorism.