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Out of the more than 80,000 Chechen residents of conscription age, 500 people will be selected within the autumn draft campaign which began on October 1. Local residents are attracted by military service with the opportunity to build a career.

Members of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, who planned to commit transport terror acts in September, have been detained near Moscow, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) reports. There are natives of Northern Caucasus among the detainees.

A policeman was wounded in a shootout with alleged militants that broke out in the Babayurt District of Dagestan, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The men killed at night in Dagestan have been identified – they are suspected of killing a policeman in the Kizlyar District, a source said. Today, it has also become known about the murder of another policeman in the Babayurt District.

On October 1, in the Naur District of Chechnya, the remains of Soviet soldiers, who perished in 1942, including at least 14 Armenian natives, were reburied. The Armenia’s Ambassador to Russia took part in the ceremony.

Ramazan Abdulatipov's announcement of his resignation from the position of the Dagestani leader; discovery in Ingushetia of the Doku Umarov's remains; actions held by Adygs from Kabardino-Balkaria and Abkhazia in defence of Ruslan Gvashev on hunger strike; bad weather in Poti, Novorossiysk, and the Kerch Strait crossing, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 25-October 1, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

This night, two militants involved in a murder of a district police inspector have been shot dead near the village of Kachalai in the Babayurt District of Dagestan.

During the week of September 25-October 1, 2017, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Athletes from North Ossetia have won the first place in the team event at the Culture and Sport Festival of Caucasian Nations. The second place went to Dagestan and the third to Ingushetia.

The Council of Kadis of the Caucasus Muslims Office (CMO) has urged believers to donate blood instead of self-torture on Ashura Day. In Baku, at least 2500 people responded to the call.

Entrepreneurs who suffered losses in the fire at the "Berkat" market in Grozny on September 27 complained of a refusal of compensation. Workers cleared the site for the construction of a new pavilion in place of the burnt.

About 150 homosexuals and transgenders were detained in Baku during police raids conducted in mid-September. Over a third of them were arrested for up to 30 days, the rest were fined.

The Kremlin is dosing its decisions on replacing governors, and has not yet decided on the successor to Ramazan Abdulatipov, the editors-in-chief of the Dagestani media, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", have suggested.

Staircases of apartment buildings, underground passages and a number of trade pavilions in Volgograd and the region are not fit for people with disabilities and baby carts, the public monitors assert. They are sure that the funds allocated for making the urban infrastructure better are spent inefficiently.

A service police car of a district police inspector, who had been found dead in the Kizlyar District, was discovered burned down in a neighbouring district.

This morning, a body of a policeman with signs of violent death has been found in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan.

Last week, in Baku, more than 50 homosexuals and transgender people were detained and subjected to violence, including torture with electric current. Some of them were arrested for 30 days. This was reported by advocate Samed Rakhimli and activist Javid Nabiev.

In a published video appeal, the elders of Baksan request to protect the rights of Black Sea Shapsugs and, in particular, Ruslan Gvashev in the Krasnodar Territory. The prosecution of Ruslan Gvashev for a moleben at the Tulip Tree is a discrimination against the minorities, the Baksan elders noted.

In Cherkessk, more than 30 people have gathered at the monument to Holocaust victims. The participants of the action have claimed the republic authorities silence down the history of extermination of Jews.

The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) has announced that Afghan Mukhtarly, an imprisoned Azerbaijani journalist, became a laureate of the Pavel Sheremet Journalism Award 2017.