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At the trial in the "Nardaran case", the court has listened to the testimonies of residents of the village of Nardaran, sentenced in other criminal cases. They have claimed that during the preliminary investigation, they were beaten and forced to testify against Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the movement "Muslim Unity".

The working group, consisting of rights defenders, NGO activists, journalists and lawyers of Azerbaijan, has released an updated list of the country's political prisoners. It has 139 persons; 94 of them have been recognized as political prisoners; the cases of other 45 are being monitored.

Participants of the rally in Makhachkala have stated that there is no answer from power agents about the whereabouts of their missing relatives-residents of Dagestan; they called on state officials and law enforcers to obey the law, and on the republic's women to unite around the problem of kidnappings and extrajudicial executions.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar has satisfied the investigator's petition to arrest Nikolai Nesterenko, the Ataman of the Cossack unit of Anapa, suspected of a major fraud with a land plot. Nesterenko has challenged his arrest at the Territorial Court.

The explosion on the territory of the Abkhazian TV and Radio Company was an attempted terror act, said Aslan Kobakhiya, the head of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Abkhazia. According to the "Nuzhnaya Gazeta", policemen found photos of building located in central streets of Sukhumi on the person, killed by the explosion.

A participant of counterterrorist operations (CTOs) in Chechnya, field commander of the national militia unit of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (known as DNR), also known under the nickname "Motorola", was killed in Donetsk on October 16.

Zhalaudi Geriev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", has been prosecuted for his journalistic activities. This was stated by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The men killed in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in Dagestani Derbent were involved in terror acts. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

According to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", the armed clash taking place on October 16 in Derbent during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) has become at least the eighth armed incident in the area during the year of 2016. In total, eight armed clashes killed 16 and wounded other 41 people.

Preliminary results of the voting at the parliamentary elections in Georgia; sentencing in the case against Kuban MP Sergey Zirinov; road traffic accident involving a bus on route from Moscow to Yerevan in North Ossetia; special operations carried out by law enforcers in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria; revocation of the banking licence of the "Razvitie" Bank in Karachay-Cherkessia; granting of refugee status to Mikhail Savva in Ukraine and the USA, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 10-16, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Armenian nongovernmental organization (NGO) "In the Name of the Law" is going to hold a protest action in front of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) office in Yerevan and demand from Pedro Agramunt, the head of the PACE, to resign, because of disrespect for the Armenian delegation.

The chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Dagestan has reported on sending the materials on electoral violations to the Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by protestors on hunger strike in Buynaksk. The health state of the hunger-strikers deteriorates; however, they intend to continue their protest action.

During the week of October 10-16, 2016, at least 12 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 11 were killed, and one person was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The bosses of the Izberbash Radio Factory owe over 20 million roubles to their workers, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Dagestan and called on the bosses to immediately find money to pay the wage and tax debts.

Mothers with many children have demanded from Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, to solve the problem of delayed payments of child benefits. Besides, they began collecting signatures under the online petition posted on the website "Change.org".

In Karachay-Cherkessia, participants of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference "Nogai people: 21st century: from the origins to the future" have proposed to create the Centre for Study of Nogai Culture at the Karachay-Cherkessian State University (KChSU) and establish the Council of the heads of the residential settlements with compact residence of Nogai people.

The "Initiative of Development for Armenia" (IDeA) Foundation has allocated 250,000 US dollars to Armenians in Syria and began raising funds for help programmes both to those who stay in Syria, and to those, who want to leave the country or have already done so.

The power agents Askhat Laipanov and Kazbek Batchaev are innocent of the death of Murat Borlakov, a resident of the Karachay-CherkessianRepublic (KChR), their advocates assert. They treat the testimonies of the main witness as contradictory and unreliable; however, the aggrieved party does not agree.

The bomb-disposal experts, who came to inspect the interior of the bus en route from Makhachkala, did not find any explosives.

On October 14, Yunus Yasiev, who earlier served as a magistrate judge in Khasavyurt, opened fire at four men, who approached his house, wounding two of them, law enforcement sources have reported, one of them adding that the men came to Yasiev "on the issue of his debts."