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In the morning on Tuesday, a fire happened in one of the rooms of the Grozny Airport in Chechnya. The fire has been localized, no one suffered, and the airport works without any interruptions.

The Public Chamber of Chechnya has decided to establish a special commission for monitoring the social networks on the Internet. Its main mission will be to counter extremist statements, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Hunger strike of several activists in Makhachkala demanding resignation of head of Dagestan; major power outage in Stavropol; meeting of presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Paris; protests of mothers of many children from Volgograd Region in Moscow; two convoys with Russian humanitarian aid to residents of Donetsk and Lugansk; decision of Chechen SC on Ruslan Kutaev's case, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 27-November 2, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Bekkhan Gelgoev, the head of youth human rights organization "Youth for the Future" and a member of the International Youth Human Rights Movement, and his colleague Zhalavdi Geriev, who were deported on November 2 from Georgia, arrived in Russia by the flight Kutaisi-Moscow.

In western regions of Georgia and in Adzharia (Adjara) heavy rains and snowfalls led to house flooding and blockage of highway sections.

During the week from October 27 to November 2, 2014, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus at least three persons were killed, and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Ismail Haji Berdiev, the Chairman of the Coordinating Centre of North-Caucasian Muslims and the Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) performed the rite of "dua" in memory of the deceased.

The mothers of large families who had arrived from Volgograd have completed a series of solo pickets in Moscow, where they demanded the fulfilment by the authorities of their due social obligations. On November 1, after sending their appeals to the MPs of the State Duma and senators of the Federation Council, mothers went back to Volgograd.

The information about the persons, who suffered from illegal actions of power agents at night on October 28 in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, will be checked by the leadership of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

A car driver opened fire at policemen in response to their demand to stop, and was killed by return fire, Dagestani law enforcers assert.

Imangazali Magomedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan, Kizlyar District, accused of aiding militants and illegal possession of firearms and drugs, told his advocate that he recognized a policeman in one of prosecution witnesses, who had beaten him up after detention.

Murad Gazimagomedov, who was detained by policemen along with other parishioners of the mosque in Makhachkala, was transferred to the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) and is suspected of resisting the police during the riots.

The results are known of the medical examination of the rights defender Intigam Aliev, arrested in Azerbaijan, whose health deteriorated on October 24 during a court session, where the extension of his arrest was considered.

Islam Beshkurov, who was killed on October 30 in the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, was buried in the village of Dugulubgey, his relatives told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On October 31, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) hosted a scientific-practical conference to discuss the problem of corruption in the bodies of state power, organized by the Public Chamber of the KBR.

At a checkpoint on the border of Dagestan and Stavropol Territory, power agents detained, for more than an hour, the bus, in which the lawyer Elena Denisenko was travelling. She was told, at inspection of her documents, that the FSB wanted to talk to her. Elena associates the incident with her defence of the rights of Patimat Nasibova, a resident of the village of Kirovaul.

The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has excluded two articles dealing with terrorism from the indictment of Adam Osmaev, a native of Grozny, accused of an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Policemen shot dead a man in the capital of Dagestan. The killed man was a militant, and he tried to render armed resistance to the policemen, the law enforcement bodies report. According to a source in the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the policemen shot dead Abdulkadi Guseinov, a member of the "Sogratl" militant grouping.

The Georgian Parliament has finally adopted the law banning the secret services to wiretap. MPs have refused to override the veto of the President, who opposed postponing the introduction of the new rules. Thereafter, Georgy Margvelashvili has signed the law.

Stamping of collector silver coins-medals bearing the image of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has been launched in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region. Political analysts interviewed by the ‘Caucasian Knot’ say that this initiative is a typical manifestation of the personality cult.