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Anatoly Boltykhov, a coordinator of the "International Human Rights Alliance", argues that today, he and his wife have been invited to the police station, and during their absence, unidentified persons gained access to their apartment. Anatoly Boltykhov associates the incident with the preparation of the "Russian March", in which organization he is involved.

The lists of people, recognized by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" as political prisoners, include 13 residents of the south of Russia and four other persons sentenced in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and the Southern Federal District (SFD). In total, those lists include 102 people.

The National Assembly of Azerbaijan has introduced the amendments to the Criminal Code of the country, establishing new types of responsibility for religious extremism and violation of the Law "On freedom of religion".

Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya has reported that the MIA and the FSB will pay rewards of three-five million roubles for information about each of the nine militant leaders in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has introduced in the republic a position of the Vice Prime Minister for cooperation with the security agencies, law enforcement agencies and local authorities. Till present, no official has been appointed for the position.

Residents of the village of Shushiya, who have earlier dug up the road in protest against the delay in the allocation of land plots to them, have restored the road.

At the trial in the case of an attempt to create a caliphate in Kabardino-Balkaria, Inna Urchukova, a prosecution witness, said she was not aware of the defendants' relationship with the armed underground. The prosecution witness has retracted her testimony given during the preliminary investigation.

On October 27, the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia started the next court hearing in the case against female activists of the "Voice of Beslan" with viewing of a video record of the protest action of September 1, 2016, provided by the Department for the Pravoberezhny District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

lyal Djatdoev, a 53-year-old resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), detained on suspicion of killing Judge Ruslan Botashev, called the judge's decision to reduce his pension to be the motive for the murder, investigators report.

The Ministry has explained today that the demand of its boss to provide information about the accounts of the employees of its subordinate mass media was issued with the aim to find active Internet users among journalists and authorize them to run official pages in social networks.

Khaiser Djemilev has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg Court about Russia and Ukraine, his advocate Nikolai Polozov said today.

The Amnesty International (AI), a human rights organization, has urged Russian authorities to investigate the statements of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh (also written as Stanislaw Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk), citizens of Ukraine, convicted in Russia, about use of torture to them during the investigation.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO), cancelled today in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, was preceded by twelve other CTOs, announced in Southern Dagestan since the start of 2016. Five of them were conducted in the Magaramkent District.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the appeal filed by Azerbaijani oppositionist Aidyn Shukyurov about violation of his rights during the parliamentary elections held in 2010. The Strasbourg Court has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay Aidyn Shukyurov compensation in the total amount of 11,000 euro.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, Ruslan Botashev, the acting chairman of the Malokarachay District Court, was shot dead in his own car in the village of Pervomaiskoe, reports the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Buynaksk, two persons continue their hunger strike with the demand to cancel the results of the elections to the People's Assembly of Dagestan. The rest hunger-strikers had to stop their protest action because of deterioration of their health state. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Kamil Shakhbulatov, the chief of the Buynaksk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and a former participant of the hunger strike.

This morning, law enforcers have lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the Dagestani village of Tagirkent-Kazmalyar of the Magaramkent District on October 26.

On October 20, the Dagestani Ministry of Press and Information sent to its all subordinated public institutions a resolution issued by Burliyat Tokbolatova with request to directors of the republic's state-run media to provide information about accounts of employees on the Internet.

Mothers of young men disappeared in Dagestan have founded the public movement "The Mother's Heart". According to members of the new movement, in Dagestan, disappearances are not investigated properly, and many of the incidents may involve the law enforcement bodies.

The village of Tagirkent-Kazmalyar, Magaramkent District, has been put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, the Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) has reported today. According to a Dagestani law enforcement source, in the course of the CTO, power agents entered a shootout with some persons, who had opened fire on them from a blocked house.