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The draft amendments to the Armenia's Constitution have been fully approved by the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe (CE), which described them as "consistent with the international standards of democracy."

A schoolteacher from the Cherek District of Kabardino-Balkaria has confessed that he was harbouring in his house Mir-Zurab Asadulagi and Zeitun Boziev, involved in the murder of Boris Zherukov, Rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian Agricultural Academy, and several other resonant murders. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

In Azerbaijan, worship service at the mosques of Shiite Muslims and other events dedicated to the Day of Ashura are held in conditions of enhanced security. Participants of worship service in the village of Nardaran have condemned the dispersal of the procession on the eve of the Day of Ashura and called on to release Muslims from prisons and lift the ban on hijabs in schools.

Abdul Nustafaev, an active member of the "Gimry" criminal grouping, an organizer of the undermining of the Irganai Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), was killed in the course of the special operation held in the Dagestani village of Gimry. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The Stavropol Regional Court has extended the sanctions against the café "Opera" in the city of Mineralnye Vody, near which a fight ended with murder occurred in January. The operation of the café "Opera" has been suspended until the actual elimination of violations of fire safety rules.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced in the village of Gimry of Untsukul District of Dagestan.

The Stavropol Regional Court has drawn the attention of the Kislovodsk City Court to the need for consideration of the complaint about the inaction of officials engaged in the checking of the report on the death threat against Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov.

The State Duma has adopted in the first reading a draft law prohibiting to recognize as extremist materials the contents of the Bible, the Koran, the Torah and the Kanjur, and quotations from them.

Members of the community "Vilayat Dagestan of Islamic State", prohibited in Russia, know each other from their childhood, and the leader of the community is the so-called "long-term forest survivor". This was stated by journalist Orkhan Djemal.

In Makhachkala, drivers of shuttle buses on urban route No. 19 have reduced fare from 17 down to 15 roubles. The drivers' decision is connected with their refusal to pay a fee of 3100 roubles to the municipal unitary enterprise (MUE) "Goravtotrans" for a waybill.

Residents of the villages of Untsukul and Shamilkala have learned about the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime from media. The villagers have reported that the introduction of the CTO legal regime in no way affects their daily lives.

The Turkish authorities are searching for Ulker Mamedova, a citizen of Azerbaijan, who may be involved in the terror act in Ankara, which killed 102 people. The information has been confirmed by the Azerbaijani General Consul in Istanbul.

In the village of Novy Kurush of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, four persons were detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting militants. According to a local resident, law enforcers found a weapon during a search of one of the detainees.

Zaur Dadaev, accused in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder, has addressed the Russian President with a request to allow him to take part in the combat operations in the territory of Syria.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg took the side of the complainant from Derbent, who complained about ineffective investigation into the repeated rape committed by an official from the local Mayor's Office.

Today, six villages in Dagestan have been deprived of gas supply after a leak in the high pressure gas pipeline in the Babayurt District. Residents of the Lenin District of Makhachkala are deprived of water supply because of damage to water pipes.

The number of Russian citizens, who express their concerns about possible terrorist threat, has grown since the end of 2014 by 7% and reached 65%. The citizens of Russia see the main source of terrorist threat in the "Islamic State" (IS). These are the results of a survey prepared by the Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (known as VTsIOM).

Today, in the territory of the Children's General Hospital in the capital of Dagestan, law enforcers are holding joint training and tactical exercises to rescue hostages.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced within the residential settlements of Untsukul and Shamilkala.

In Armenia, managers of the chemical complex "Vanadzor-Khimprom", which owes to its workers the wages for nine months, have paid the wage arrears for two months. The rest of the debt is planned to be repaid until December 15.