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The Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory has announced the completion of the judicial investigation into the case of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of the city of Kislovodsk accused of drug trafficking. The oral statements of the parties will be heard on November 12.

The authors of the joint statement issued today by 11 NGOs believe that the Georgian public needs a full explanation of the reasons for the resignations of high-ranking officials. They ask the Prime Minister of Georgia to meet them and explain the situation.

On November 2, a number of international human rights organizations sent a letter to Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), asking to transfer the investigation of the murder of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, to the Chief Investigating Department of the ICRF. As of today, the letter has been received, the ICRF said.

According to the operative headquarters of Dagestan, today in the evening, the territory of the Shamil District was put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime.

Employees of the Prosecutor's Office have visited the hunger-strikers who demand resignation of the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov. During the interrogation of the protesters, much attention was paid to the persons of the organizers of the action.

According to the Dagestani Region Prosecutor's Office, an audit conducted at the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs revealed a theft of more than 13 million roubles.

Today, after namaz (the Friday prayer) in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, policemen detained five parishioners of the mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street, where earlier a conflict burst out of believers with law enforcers, the edition named "Chernovik" writes, citing eyewitnesses. The reasons for the detention of believers are not reported.

The organization named "Soldiers' Mothers of Saint Petersburg" has filed a lawsuit demanding to invalidate the refusal of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide information about hospitalization of soldiers wounded in the warfare in the territory of Ukraine.

In the course of a special operation in the settlement of Chegem-2 (Chegem Vtoroi) in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) special division fighters have been injured by shrapnel in the blast of an improvised explosive device (IED), a law enforcement source of the republic has reported today. The health condition of one of them is grave; while the killed suspected militant has been identified.

In the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), Yashar Bagirsoy, the head of the regional branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), reports about disappearance of Khidjran Gasymov, a local activist of the opposition organization. Bagirsoy believes that Gasymov was detained by law enforcement bodies; however, according to his story, the police did not confirm this information.

The case against two operative agents of the Derbent ROVD (District Interior Division) of the MIA of Dagestan, accused of a fraud through abuse of office, has been sent to the court.

A Dagestani lawyer and his friend are suspected of sexual assault, robbery, extortion of 2 million roubles, and arms trafficking. At investigators' request the court put them into custody.

The Yasamal District Court of Baku has finished considering the lawsuit filed in the order of private accusation by Nuriya Guseinova, a former cellmate of the rights defender Leyla Yunus, against the latter's advocate Alaif Gasanov.

Most of the users of social networks questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have treated negatively the "Caucasian March", held in Moscow on the National Unity Day, calling it "unnatural" and treating the participation in it of Caucasian natives as humiliating.

The resignation of Irakli Alasaniya from the post of Minister of Defence and his announcement about the withdrawal of his party "Free Democrats" from the ruling coalition have resulted of the attempts to correct the country's pro-Western course, Georgian political analysts believe.

The Makhachkala babysitting "Happy Child" Centre, which was suspended by law enforcers, was reopened on Thursday. Earlier, power agents made another check of the centre, saying they did not receive information about the permit to reopen the preschool facility.

On Thursday, in Baku, the apartment of Djavakhir Akhundova, the mother of rights activist Gulnara Akhundova, who is now living abroad, was searched.

Ingush policemen are conduction their operative activities aimed to find and detain the man who had opened fire in the city of Nazran.

The hunger strike of public activists who demand resignation of Ramazan Abdulatipov continues in Makhachkala. The protesters intend to go on until their demands are satisfied.

The human rights activist Albina Magomedova states that power agents broke into her household in Makhachkala; and that she fears for her life and lives of her relatives.