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On October 10, passport checks in the village of Butenko of the Staropromyslovsky District of Grozny were carried out as measures of the search for a dangerous criminal, who had committed a series of violent crimes in Chechnya.

In Ukraine, natives of the Caucasus are fighting on both sides of the conflict. This has been stated by Alan Mamiev, a resident of North Ossetia, who is involved in the hostilities in Ukraine.

Magomedrasul Aigumov, the deputy of the Gubden rural assembly of deputies, has complained about the unlawful actions of policemen, who include him in the "Wahhabi list". According to Magomedrasul Aigumov, he is repeatedly stopped at checkpoints and detained for several hours for verification.

Ali Charinsky, a Dagestani blogger, the author of the video depicting the incident at the Historic Mosque in Moscow, which has scored over 2 million viewings on the YouTube, receives threats from unknown persons. Charinsky himself told it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Russian Supreme Court has scheduled for November 13 the consideration of the claim filed by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to dissolve the Russian organization "Memorial". This has been announced by the Russian Supreme Court.

The Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismailova has stated, after the session on Friday on the lawsuit against her lodged by the former oppositionist Elman Tyurkoglu, that the country's Ministry of National Security (MNS) had slandered her.

Members of the Association of Young Lawyers, the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, and the Transparency International Georgia, have reported on the dismissals of officials of the Tbilisi Mayoralty for political grounds. The activists have called on the law enforcement bodies to check the facts and respond to them.

The Police Lieutenant Colonel, the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan, is suspected of abuse of power that led to the death of a 22-year-old young man at the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Nogai District.

At the gathering of residents of the village of Psykhurei of the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), people were discussing events related to the special operation conducted at the local cemetery, during which Zaurbek Orshokdugov and Nurabi Tlepshev were killed.

Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid, who has been detained in Dagestan and who is suspected of illegal possession of weapons, is placed under home arrest for two months.

On Friday, the organization "Amnesty International" (AI) and the Greenpeace have launched an online campaign in support of Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, who is serving his sentence in a penal colony and who was recognized by the human rights defenders as political prisoner.

Patimat Nasibova, a resident of the village of Kirovaul of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was detained as a result of a special operation, is suspected of aiding and abetting members of an illegal armed formation (IAF). This was reported by an advocate of Patimat Nasibova.

In Ingushetia, law enforcers have detained a militant, who was a member of the "Karabulak" criminal grouping and who took part in planting bombs and shelling of policemen in September. This was reported by the Ingush FSB.

In total, 12 persons were detained within the case about the fight in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody); 10 of them are under arrest. Investigators suspect a total of 18 people of involvement in the crime. According to Vladimir Vladimirov, the Governor of the Stavropol Territory, the crime became possible "because of a merge of the crime and power" in Minvody.

Nadir Abu Khalid detained in Dagestan is one of the most prominent Islamic preachers among the Russian-speaking young Muslims, and his detention may provoke an aggravation of tension in Dagestan, experts believe.

The "Rosobrnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Supervising Education) has suspended, until December 20, the license for educational activities of the Secular Institute of Caucasian Nations, the press service of the Agency reports.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced the decision in the case concerning 18 residents of Chechnya, who disappeared in 2000-2006. The ECtHR has found Russia guilty and obliged the country to pay to the complainants the compensation totalling to 1,080,000 euros.

The whereabouts of Patimat Nasibova, a resident of the village of Kirovaul, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, detained after the special operation, has been established, said her advocate Elena Denisenko. According to her story, Nasibova is at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) No. 1 of Makhachkala.

A protest action against Armenia's accession to the Eurasian Economic Community (EEC, or EurAsEC) was held in Yerevan on Thursday. The protesters demanded from the country's leadership to reject the idea, since Armenia, in their opinion, will lose its sovereignty after the accession.

Until present, no criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the murder of Eradil Asanov, a resident of Dagestan, who was shot dead on October 6 in the ROVD (District Interior Division) of the village of Terekli-Mekteb.