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In Azerbaijan, Hilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", has returned to the penal colony No. 17 after the celebration of his daughter's wedding. He has expressed the hope that the possibility for a temporary stay on the loose will be available to other prisoners.

Adam Abubakarov, an advocate of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of Kislovodsk, accused of drug trafficking, has declared a hunger strike to protest against the actions of the Judge of the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory.

Amina Okueva, the wife of Adam Osmaev, a native of Grozny, accused of plotting a terror act against Russian President Vladimir Putin, has nominated herself to the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Amina Okueva calls Russia "a treacherous and cowardly enemy".

At Saturday night, in Khasavyurt, the explosion has occurred close to an office building. As a result, the office of advocate Aida Kasimova was destroyed.

In Dagestan, in the settlement of Vremenny of the Untsukul District, law enforcers make arrangements to deploy soldiers in the administrative buildings. The situation in the village is calm. However, people still cannot return to their houses, and the law enforcers carry out targeted checks in the village of Gimry.

Lera Alkhasova, a former employee of Ministry of Social Protection of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has been repeatedly suspected of committing a fraud with the compensations received by liquidators of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident who live in the republic, whose interests she had defended at litigations.

Unidentified law enforcers have broken into the apartment of residents of Makhachkala, located in the Separatorny village. The law enforcers have demanded from the Makhachkala residents to report the whereabouts of their son Kamil Guliev.

The settlement of Vremenny of the Untsukul District, where the counterterrorist operation (CTO) is underway, provides shelter up to five militants, including Magomed Suleimanov, the kadi of "Dagestan Vilayat" and the Amir "Mountain Sector of Dagestan Vilayat".

Relatives of Ramis Mirzakhanov, a deputy of the Tabasaran District Assembly, who was shot dead in the village of Akka, assert that he had nothing to do with militants; he never supported the ideas of Wahhabism and refused to contact the relatives who had gone underground.

The action held by students of the Dagestani State Pedagogical University (DSPU) against the intended merge of two departments, is not a true hunger strike, experts say.

Nurpashi Budaichiev and Kamil Batdalov, natives of Dagestan, are sentenced to 11 and 12.5 years of imprisonment on charges of plotting a terror act on a chemical weapons destruction plant "Maradykovsky" in the Kirov Region. Advocates of the convicts claim fabrication of the criminal case and announce their intention to challenge the court's decision at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The Novocherkassk Magistrate Court of the Rostov Region has postponed by three months the payment by the Don Women Union of the fine imposed for their work without getting registered as a foreign agent.

The Women-Human Rights Defenders’ International Coalition (WHRDIC) has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the rights defender Leyla Yunus from prison and put forward her candidacy for the 2015 Nobel Peace Award in 2015.

All the 26 detainees in the criminal case opened in connection of the fight in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), after which one person died, have seen their charges, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Chechnya has begun trying Said Mazhaev, a resident of Grozny, accused of involvement in warfare in Syria. After the first session, the court appointed the continuation for November 7. Mazhaev’s relatives expect that the court will take extenuating circumstances into account at sentencing.

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the sentence to the members of the so-called "Tsapok’s gang" from the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, sentenced to long terms in prison. The case against Sergey Tsapok himself was stopped because of his death.

Students of the Dagestani State Pedagogical University (DSPU), who suspended their hunger strike, demanded from the Acting Rector of the university to present them, on October 27, with a copy of the order, according to which the merging of the engineering-pedagogical and technological-economic departments was cancelled.

In the Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where on Friday power agents carried out their special activities and killed a man who opened fire on them, a policeman was wounded.

In Dagestan, in the course of a special operation conducted in the Tlyaratin District, two suspected militants were killed, and one law enforcer was wounded.

An action dated to the anniversary of the capture by terrorists of the viewers of the musical "Nord-Ost" was held in Moscow with attendance of several hundred people.