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For four weeks, there were no investigative actions on the statement Maxim Lapunov, a gay detained in Chechnya, Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), has stated.

Ruslan Gvashev’s defenders and relatives have treated the decision of the Krasnodar Territorial Court on his case as unjustified and absurd. Gvashev himself said that he was gaining strength for the further struggle for his rights, but he would not plan go on a hunger strike.

Maxim Lapunov said that in March this year he was detained in Chechnya and spent 12 days in the cellar, where he was beaten up.

Today, fifteen supporters of Ruslan Gvashev from Abkhazia, who were travelling to Krasnodar in order to attend the trial of his case, spent four hours at the police station of the village of Enem in the Republic of Adygea. Activists from Kabardino-Balkaria were allowed by the police to continue their travel after the trial was over.

At least nine mercenaries from the private military company known as "Wagner's PMC", including a native of the Volzhsky town in the Volgograd Region, were killed in Syria in August and September. This was reported by the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT). The "Wagner's PMC" attracts people by promises of good earnings, explained residents of the Rostov Region.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the complaint filed by Ruslan Gvashev, who was fined for praying at the Tulip Tree. Advocates will appeal against the Court's decision.

During the week of October 9-15, 2017, two persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Natives of Dagestan detained in Moscow and Makhachkala were plotting attacks on participants of the World Festival of Youth and Students, reported a source.

On October 15-16, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 118 times, reported the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Entry into force of the verdict in the Nemtsov murder case; ECtHR’s decision on the complaint of relatives of the murdered residents of the Chechen village of Novye Aldy; overcoming the Georgian President’s veto on country’s draft constitution; appointment of a new head of Abkhazian MIA; detention of officer Khudyakov, who had been hiding for almost a decade; major fire in the commodity marketplace in Rostov-on-Don, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 9-15, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which provides assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the Karabakh village of Talish, has decided to reduce the dependence of refugees' family members from financial assistance and invited them to take part in collective microeconomic projects.

Twelve years after the attack on Nalchik, the reconciliation between relatives of the killed law enforcers and militants is needed, emphasize relatives of the people sentenced for the attack. They complained of pressure on their families and violation of the rights of prisoners in penal colonies.

Natives of Dagestan suspected of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) banned in Russia have voiced the confessions. This is evidenced by a video record released by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Participants in a protest action in Tbilisi have demanded from the Georgian authorities to provide the information about the fate of Joseph Osiurauli, a Georgian military pilot, who was captured in the Republic of the Congo.

The documentary film "Listen to the Silence" by Georgian film director Mariam Chachiya has won the prize for the best script at the International Film Festival for People with Disabilities.

In Dagestan, residents of the Khazar village in the Derbent District held a meeting of owners of land plots allocated for personal households. According to the participants of the meeting, they have paid money to registration of their land plots, but now officials state that the villagers got the documents illegally.

The journalist Fikret Guseinli, who lives in political emigration in the Netherlands, has been detained today at the "Borispol" Kiev Airport, when he tried to fly to Dusseldorf.

Four natives of Dagestan were detained in Moscow and Makhachkala on October 13 and 14. They are members of the so-called “dormant unit” of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The abolition of the practice of direct elections at the republican and local levels is a restriction of the constitutional rights of residents of Northern Caucasus. This has been stated by the appeal of the Karachay Elders which became available to the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the Moscow State Museum of Oriental Art has opened the exhibition "Kabarda: From Antiquity to Our Days", which presents to visitors cold arms, gold embroidery items, and other artefacts from Kabardino-Balkaria.