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Residents of the Syrian village of Deir Foale, founded by immigrants from Dagestan, have found themselves in an air strike area. This was reported by the villagers. According to unconfirmed information, two Circassian villages were also affected by air strikes.

Members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) have visited at the IVS (temporary detention facility) Djamal Razhitkhanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting members of an illegal armed formation (IAF). The man has waived services of an advocate under pressure of investigators. This was reported by the defence of Djamal Razhitkhanov.

Last night, in the Tsumada District of Dagestan, unidentified persons fired several shots at a car with policemen and wounded one of them. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

The organization "Amnesty International" (AI) treats the ban on entry of its employees in Azerbaijan as a "serious attack" on freedom of speech in connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections.

After studying the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Armenia, a group of 52 advocates came to the conclusion that the constitutional reform represents "a threat to the system of governance." This was reported by advocate Yervand Varosyan at the press conference held in Yerevan on October 7.

Today, in Grozny, the stadium "Akhmat-Arena" has hosted the ceremonies to celebrate the birthday of Vladimir Putin. City residents complained that they were obliged to attend the rally.

In the centre of the capital of Dagestan, Shamil Magomedov, who opened fire on policemen, was killed in the course of the shootout. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has dismissed the appeal to invalidate the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the extension of the Zaur Dadaev's arrest until November 28.

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.