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Today, the Council of Europe (CE) has made the decision to quit the Joint Working Group on Human Rights in Azerbaijan. This step is explained by the lack of progress in addressing the human rights problems and the deterioration of the situation in this sphere in the country.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Shalushka River is suffering an ecological disaster because of the discharges of sewage effluent. This was reported by local residents. According to the studies carried out by specialists of the "Kabbalkvodresursy", the concentration of nitrates and ammonium phosphate in water of the Shalushka River exceeds permissible level of pollution.

In Boris Nemtsov murder case, Ruslan Geremeev is in the status of a witness, and he has not been put on the federal wanted list. Vadim Prokhorov, an advocate of the family members of the murdered politician, disagrees with the above facts, and he is seeking for the charge against Ruslan Geremeev in absentia.

In London, Kholoud Waleed, a Syrian female journalist and an editor of an underground newspaper "Enab Baladi", has received the Anna Politkovskaya Award. The international NGO "RAW in War", a founder of the Anna Politkovskaya Award, has noted the incredible courage and inspirational works of Kholoud Waleed.

Today, on the ninth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", her son Ilya Politkovsky has stated that he treats the crime as unsolved.

In the Stavropol Territory, after journalists faced impeding when they were preparing a report on one of the quarries, Alexei Pisarev, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Stavropol Territory, who supervised the operation of those facilities, was dismissed.

Recruitment of young people into the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS , earlier ISIL) and other terrorist organizations in social networks should be prevented by specially trained professionals. A working team of such specialists will soon appear in Ingushetia. This was announced by the Ingush leader.

On October 6, after the Court in the Rostov Region held a session in the case against Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko, her advocate Ilya Novikov informed journalists that the defence treated the persons questioned on October 6 as false witnesses.

Djamal Razhitkhanov, suspected of aiding and abetting militants, has written a complaint, in which he reported on torture and pressure to waive services of advocates.

The villages of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan do not face the effect of the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, and all the social facilities are operating as usual. This was reported by local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Investigators accuse Kamaldin Kazimagomedov, Arsen Talibov, and Idayat Mursalov of the murder of hunters Nadir Dadashev and Yamudin Tagirov in the Suleiman-Stalsky District.

On September 29, in a penal colony in the Tambov Region, Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko declared a hunger strike in protest against the courts' decisions to refuse conditional early relief (CER) and commutation of the sentence. This has been reported today by advocate Sergey Loktev.

In the Istra District of the Moscow Region, FSB agents have detained a Russian citizen, suspected of involvement in the grouping led by Shamil Basaev and, according to the secret services, involved in the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995.

In Dagestan, the military training ground "Dalny" (Far) hosts the military live-fire exercises involving more than 2000 military men and about 300 units of weapons and military vehicles. This was reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.

A group of people arrived in Georgia from one of the foreign countries to commit a terror act aimed to kill Bidzina Ivanishvili, the former Prime Minister. This was stated by Irakli Batiashvili, the former Minister of National Security of Georgia.

In Tbilisi, more than 200 people held a rally in front of the house of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the former Prime Minister of Georgia. They were protesting against the court's decision to arrest two activists of the NGO "Free Zone" and a member of the "United National Movement" Party.

This morning, a regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been introduced in the territory of the Karabudakhkent District. This was reported by the spokesman of the operational headquarters of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) in Dagestan.

In Astrakhan, the investigation has been launched into the criminal case on falsification of the election results at the electoral precinct No. 344 of the Soviet District of Astrakhan.

Today, the press service of the US Treasury has announced the inclusion of three Russian citizens in the anti-terror sanctions list. According to the US Treasury, they are Islam Atabiev, well-known under the nickname "al-Shishani", "Abu Jihad" Akhmed Chataev ("One-Armed Akhmed"), and Zaurbek Guchaev ("Abdul Aziz"), the "TASS" reports.

After the mass detention of believers of the Salafi mosque in the village of Novy Kurush of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, eight persons were taken into custody. This was reported by local residents.