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At the trial, Pavel Karaulov has reported that the Russian FSB agents, who accompanied him with his daughter, said that investigators had been refused in opening of a criminal case against Varvara Karaulova. According to Pavel Karaulov, in Turkey, he was also assured that "no criminal case" was instituted against Varvara Karaulova.

At the trial, the farther of Varvara Karaulova has claimed that after her return from Turkey, his daughter was under the FSB control. According to the farther, Varvara Karaulova resumed the correspondence with recruiters at the initiative of investigators.

At the trial in the case of "Rostov Amazons", defenders of Inessa Tarverdieva filed a motion for an additional review of her testimony. The court has dismissed the motion.

Four hunger strikers decided to continue their protest action with the demand to cancel the results of the elections for the People's Assembly of Dagestan.

In Sukhumi, the court has sentenced Sergey Sigov, accused of inflicting harm to an Abkhazian mobile network provider, to four years of imprisonment in a penal settlement-colony. Sentencing of Vladimir Trifonov, who faces the same charge, is postponed.

Today, the Volgograd Regional Court has upheld the decision of the Dzerzhinsky District Court on the arrest of activist Igor Nagavkin, but reduced it until November 16. Igor Nagavkin declared a hunger strike.

Unidentified persons kept Anton Drozdov, the coordinator of the project "Gulagu.net" and a member of the Committee for Civil Rights, in their apartment for four days. The project is engaged, among other things, in problems of human rights violations in jails of Southern Russia.

After a check, officials from the Grozny Mayor's Office have called a deceiver Birlant Dakaeva, who appealed to Ramzan Kadyrov for help to solve her housing problem. A panel house, in which, according to the woman, she lived, was demolished. The story of Birlant Dakaeva once again shows that an appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov can result in public humiliation, note residents of the Chechen Republic interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Field investigators have found out that a 33-year-old resident of Nazran is involved in the combat actions on the side of the Syrian militants. At present, he faces up to 15 years of imprisonment at home, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia.

A group of 14 pilgrims, including Khozh-Akhmed Nettiev, the Qadi of the Shali District of Chechnya, and a Dagestani athlete Magomed Malikov, who is Ramzan Kadyrov's friend, have visited the sacred Muslim Kaaba; and on their return to Grozny, they delivered gifts to the head of Chechnya.

Opposition activist Darya Polyudova, sentenced on the charge of extremism and serving her sentence in a penal settlement-colony in Novorossiysk, has received a response from the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia to her appeal against the verdict.

At the consideration of their appeal complaint by the Supreme Court of Russia, the citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, convicted on charges of involvement in the first Chechen war on the militants' side, will be defended by three advocates.

The court ignores the testimonies, which refute the investigators' version with regard to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, believes Oleg Orlov, the head of the programme "Hotspots" of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

At the trial in Rostov-on-Don of the case of an attempt to create Caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) told about the circumstances, under which an improvised explosive device (IED) was found in the apartment of one of the defendants.

In Gukovo, picketers are not satisfied with the results of the meeting with the Minister of Energy of the Rostov Region. The protestors are willing to resume their hunger strike interrupted on September 27 if the payments of wage arrears to former miners of the "Kingcoal" company are not renewed.

In Azerbaijan, a court has dismissed the lawsuit filed by journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who demanded from the Baku City Prosecutor's Office to pay compensation for her unreasonable arrest. The defence plans to challenge the court's decision.

The suspected militants, killed in the vicinity of the village of Yanikoy, had recently gone underground and had no combat experience, said a law enforcement source.

Voters are to give their voices for opposition candidates to majoritarian MPs to ensure that the "Georgian Dream" Party does not gain the majority in the Georgian Parliament and does not change the Constitution at its discretion. This was stated by Georgian NGOs.

Russian citizens are accused by an Abkhaz mobile operator of a fraud by using some equipment to transfer phone calls into IP-based networks in order to reduce cost thereof. The verdicts in their cases are expected on October 19.

In 2016, the lists of residents "forbidden to leave Russia" included names of 10,000 residents of Chechnya with debts exceeding 10,000 roubles for utilities, fines, loans, and child support payments.