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Observers from the public initiative "Citizen Observer" have reports on crowds near polling stations, "carrousels", and bribes to voters. The observers have counted 162 violations.

Igor Nagavkin, the leader of the Volgograd branch of the movement "For Human Rights", has been arrested for two months.

During the negotiations on the Karabakh conflict settlement, politicians should take into account the opinion of ordinary people. This was stated by participants of the roundtable "Problems and ways of resolving the conflict between Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan and the role of society in the national security".

The residents of Makhachkala, brought by policemen from the area of the Salafi Mosque on September 30 to the police station, were put on the so-called "prophylactic record" and released. Even those already registered were photographed and fingerprinted, believers told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The monument to Bolshevik Makhach Dakhadaev, after whom the capital of Dagestan had been named, was painted with gold and planted with flowers. Users of social networks have called the initiative for the improvement of the monument inappropriate and raised the issue of renaming of Makhachkala.

Russian military commissars have received new methodologies for defining the mental state of conscripts with more stringent requirements for the recruits, the General Staff of the Russian Army has announced. The decision was made after a little more than a month after sentencing the soldier Valery Permyakov for the massacre committed by him in Gyumri, Armenia, which became possible, according to the injured party, due to the lack of proper control over recruiting soldiers in Russia.

Yashar Mustafaev from the pre-border Agstafa District of Azerbaijan lost both hands in an explosion of the shell, which he took up.

The "Regional Development Corporation" has paid out 20 million roubles of wage debts to miners of the "Kingcoal" Group. The remaining debt is 270 million, Vasily Golubev, the Governor of the Rostov Region, said today, adding that payments are made to the miners "for the time actually worked out, that is, until the moment when the idling started. We have supported people in this situation as much as we could."

Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the Sochi branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), has filed to the Krasnodar Regional Court a claim for cancellation of the results of the election of a deputy to the State Duma in a single-mandate district No. 50.

Power outages occur in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, as a rule, once every two months, residents of Tskhinvali told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Sargis Kharazyan, the chief cameraman of the photography agency "Civinet", has filed to the police a complaint about the damage inflicted to his car by unidentified persons. The journalist associates the incident with the publication of his video record depicting the dispersal of protesters in the Sari Tag District on July 29.

On September 30, workers of the "Nairit" Factory met Ashot Manukyan, Minister of Energy Infrastructures and Natural Resources of Armenia, to discuss the issues related to the potential of the plant and resumption of rubber production in Armenia.

On September 30, the expedition sent by the Russian Geographical Society measured a new mark of the depth of the Blue Lake in the Cherek District at 275 meters. Earlier, the mark of 258 meters was considered as the maximum depth of the lake, the Russian Geographical Society reports.

The police detained several dozens of believers at the Salafi Mosque "Tangjim" in Makhachkala after their Friday namaz (prayer), the believers report.

Fikret Faramazoglu, the editor-in-chief of the news website "Jam.az" gave his confessions under torture, said his advocate.

Not only Valery Permyakov should respond for the killing members of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri; therefore, the case should be re-investigated, said the legal representatives of the successors of the casualties in their complaint against the verdict.

In September, in Chechnya and Dagestan, at least five people were kidnapped, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has announced today. Rights defenders fear that among the kidnapped persons were those, who were later killed by power agents in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan and presented as militants, who rendered resistance.

The court has ruled to dismiss the defence's motion on conditional early relief (CER) of Khaiser Djemilev, a son of Mustafa Djemilev, one of the leaders of the movement of Crimean Tatars, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Members of the Buynaksk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who are on the hunger strike, claim that according to the copies of the protocols made after the voting in Buynaksk, the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party gained 10,000 votes less than the election commission reported in its final results.

The final document of the Islamic Conference held in Grozny reflects the actual situation of some regions of Northern Caucasus, and the approval of the fatwa needs all-Russian discussion. This was announced by the Russian Council of Muftis.