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An application for recognizing the "Parnas" Party an injured party in the murder case of the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was submitted today to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Ingush authorities know about at least 30 resident of the republic who went to war in Syria, said the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov. According to his story, 17 of them were killed, and six others returned home and declared themselves to law enforcement bodies.

Today, at the session of the Makhachkala City Council, deputies have elected Musa Musaev the City Mayor, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Tbilisi, a group of priests and their parishioners have organized a protest action in front of the Georgian Ministry of Education. Several dozen protesters demanded the resignation of Tamara Sanikidze, Minister of Education.

The court has pronounced the decision to fine the NGO "Youth Centre for Consulting and Training" 300,000 roubles and to fine its founder Temur Kobaliya 100,000 roubles for violation of the operating procedures for an NGO, recognized as a "foreign agent". Temur Kobaliya insists on the exclusion of his organization from the register of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ).

In the city of Sumgait, members of the opposition nominated as candidates to the Azerbaijani Parliament claim the lack of equal opportunities for pre-election campaigning for all candidates. They believe that voters are being pressured by candidates from the ruling party.

The family members of contract soldier Vadim Kostenko, who has perished in Syria, can receive from the state the minimum compensation only. This opinion was expressed by human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to them, the circumstances of the Vadim Kostenko's death are to be thoroughly investigated.

The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has not yet responded to the Russian President's instructions to check the information on torture of the defendants in the criminal case against Said Amirov. This was reported by Amirov’s advocates.

Today, the judge of the Supreme Court of Chechnya, who is considering the criminal case against the citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, found the behaviour of Vera Savchenko, who is acting as the public defender in the case, disrespectful to the court.

Varvara Karaulova, a student of the Moscow State University, who was detained in Turkey while trying to penetrate into Syria, has changed her name and surname.

Today, all the four parties making the parliament of the Spanish city of Aldaia in the province of Valencia have unanimously condemned the Armenian Genocide committed in the Ottoman Turkey.

Former Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili continues influencing the political processes in the country, Georgian political scientist believe. At the same time, the popularity of his party has fallen sharply.

The refusal to participate in the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan was announced at a press conference by the leader of the party Arif Gadjily. Opposition party motivates this decision by the absence in the country of conditions for free elections.

In Azerbaijan, "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) Movement has refused to accept the outcomes of the parliamentary elections scheduled for November 1. Activists believe that in the absence of conditions for fair elections, the voting will not be free. At the same time, the ReAl has not withdrawn its candidates.

According to initial results of the check conducted by the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia, the reason of the death in Syria of Vadim Kostenko, a soldier from the Krasnodar Territory, was a suicide, said the press service of the Prosecutor's Office. Kostenko's parents do not believe in the official version of his death.

The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has updated the information on the number of persons killed in the Buynaksk District of Dagestan last night. According to the NAC, four militants were killed, and none of law enforcers were injured.

Prior to OSCE monitoring at the contact line, the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh has presented to co-Chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group parts of unexploded shells of heavy artillery and TR-107, a rocket launcher made in Turkey, from which, according to the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled the Karabakh territory.

The regional public human rights organization "Union of Don Women", operating in the Rostov Region, has been included into the register of non-profit organizations (NPOs) functioning as a "foreign agents".

In Azerbaijan, suppression of critical voices has a very negative impact on the upcoming elections. This has been announced in the statement made by Isabel Santos, Chair of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

In Geneva, human rights defenders and officials from the Russian government have held the presentation of the report on implementation in Russia of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The report focuses on the situation with women's rights in Northern Caucasus.