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The eight people, killed in Chechnya on October 9, were on the way to the Republic of Dagestan; their route was along country roads, to bypass stationary police posts, a source from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) told the "Caucasian Knot" today.

Parliamentary elections in Georgia; children MMA fights in Grozny that caused resonance; ten years after Anna Politkovskaya's murder, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 3-9, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the attack on the polling station in the village of Djikhashkari, Zugdidi District of Georgia, the attackers took away observers' telephones, and hit one female observer on the head, said Mina Skouen, a Norwegian rights defender and a member of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.

In the evening on October 9, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced in the Suleiman-Stalsky District. At night on October 10, republic's law enforcement sources reported the killing of suspected militants in the CTO area.

During the week from October 3 to October 9, 2016, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus at least 22 people suffered, of whom 18 persons were killed and four others were 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 eight militants killed today in Chechnya were members of one grouping and had planned sabotage and terror acts, said a source from the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The election outcomes in Georgia, presented by the Central Election Commission (CEC), and the calculations of the NGO "Fair Elections", based on a parallel methodology, are not contradictory, said NGO activists, but demanded to cancel the outcomes from the stations, where violations were recorded.

Eight militants have been liquidated in the Gudermes District of Chechnya, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported, adding that four policemen were wounded in the shootout.

Four attackers shelled a unit of the road-and-post service (known as the DPS) in the Prokhladnensky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and killed two policemen.

The "United National Movement" (UNM) has failed to receive answers to their questions at the meeting with Tamar Zhvaniya, the Chair of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia, said UNM leaders at the protest action.

In Dagestan, in the village of Andi, during operative-search activities, a member of the local grouping of militants was killed, said a regional law enforcement source.

Despite violations, the voting at the elections to the Parliament of Georgia takes place in an organized environment, observers say.

Water supply was absent in Makhachkala since October 6; and now the authorities have warned about a 13-day-long water outage in the Kirov District of the city. The prosecutor's office stated the illegality of water outages for more than eight hours per month. Users of social networks demanded to stop water outages.

Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament and Ramzan Kadyrov's confidant, did not beat up Takhir Murdalov, the Acting Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. This was reported by the judge himself and confirmed by his colleagues on air of the Chechen television.

The Armenian government would not take steps to produce caoutchouc (unvulcanized rubber) in the country, representatives of the European Holding "EU-Asia Business Finance Centre" said at a press conference in Yerevan.

For his refusal to resign, Takhir Murdalov, the Acting Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic, was beaten up by Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the local Parliament, the "Kavkaz.Realii" (Realities of the Caucasus) reports; the information was confirmed by sources of the "Novaya Gazeta".

A solo picket was held by Atsamaz Khadikov, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

On October 7, Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP and Ramzan Kadyrov's cousin, has deleted a record in social networks with unflattering remarks against Fyodor Emelianenko, who had earlier condemned children fights organized in Grozny.

Valentina Cherevatenko, the head of the human rights organization "Women of the Don", who received Anna Politkovskaya Award on the 10th anniversary of the journalist's murder, told the "Caucasian Knot" that the work of her organization is largely associated with Anna's activities.

Today, in Moscow, the performance "A journalist. Whole life in a second", based on interviews and publications of Yuri Schekochikhin and Anna Politkovskaya, correspondents of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", has completed in discussion held in the format of "open mike".