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The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the territory of the Tsumada District of Dagestan on October 13, is cancelled.

In three villages in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, where law enforcers carried out a special operation, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime cancelled.

In Russia, the main methods of ideological struggle against the "Islamic State" (IS) should be the open support demonstrated by the authorities to supporters of traditional Islam, the development of Islamic education, and the anti-extremist propaganda in educational institutions. These proposals are voiced by the authors of the report "Islamic State" (IS): nature and confrontation" from the Caucasian Geopolitical Club.

A Russian FSB fighter was wounded in the course of the armed clash with four members of the "Khasavyurt" grouping of militants, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

Rasul and Alkhas Sardarov, wanted on suspicion of killing the Imam of the mosque in the village of Novy Kurush in Dagestan, are identified among four men, killed in the special operation in Dagestan.

In the course of the special operation ongoing in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, law enforcers killed four suspected members of the armed underground.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Akushinsky District has sent to the court the criminal case against M. Isaev, a local resident, accused of providing shelter and food to a leader of an illegal armed formation (IAF). Besides, Isaev is accused of illegal possession of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime is introduced in three villages of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan and on the terrain between the villages. Law enforcers are searching for militants.

In Buynaksk, the dispersal of the deputies' meeting with their voters ended with detentions. The participants of the meeting are charged with disobeying the lawful demands of the police.

In Dagestan, the deputies, representing the "Party of Veterans of Russia" in the Buynaksk City Council, have filed a complaint to the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office about the actions of the law enforcers, who did not allow them holding the meeting with voters in the centre of the city. Deputies demand to bring to justice the persons guilty of the incident.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, officials have made a decision to create teams of hunters to deal with wolves. The government is considering the possibility to start paying rewards in 2016 for shooting of predators.

The police did not allow holding the meeting with participation of public activists and deputies of the Buynaksk City Council from the "Party of Veterans of Russia".

Today, the defendant in the case of the murder of the Avetisyan family members has been charged with robbery and an attempt to cross the border between Armenia and Turkey. The defendant has pleaded guilty to the new charges. This was reported by the Investigating Committee of Armenia.

The Russian Justice Initiative (RJI) and the Chechnya Advocacy Network (CAN) have sent to the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) the alternative report on the Russia's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Northern Caucasus.

Advocates intend to appeal against the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow to recognize as legitimate the refusal to institute a criminal case on torture of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, a defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.

In Armenia, prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment have suspended their protest action while they are waiting for response from the presidential administration to the letters with the requests for reviews of their criminal cases.

Kaplan Tebuev, the head of the village, killed in Karachay-Cherkessia, used to work earlier as a top manager of a major distillery. Investigators suggest that the crime can be connected with that period of his activities.

In the Nazran District, in the course of operative and search activities, law enforcers discovered a hiding with weapons and about 20 kilograms of explosives. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Court of the Urus-Martan District has received a criminal case against Umar Akhtaev, a 25-year-old local resident. According to the suspect, he planned to destroy in an uninhabited area a homemade grenade, an explosion of which affected policemen.

The Levashi District Court of the Republic of Dagestan has found a resident of the village of Okhli of the Levashi District guilty of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF).