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On Thursday, Moscow hosts pickets in support of political prisoners in Azerbaijan, organized by the Committee "Civil Assistance".

Starting from September 30, in Volgograd, mothers of large families keep standing in front of the building of the government of the Volgograd Region and demand a meeting with the Governor. Officials from the regional government have stated that they do their best to solve problems of mothers of large families.

In the Dagestani city of Kizlyar, a mass fight was followed by a shootout at the central marketplace. As a result, one person was killed and seven others were injured.

On Thursday, 30 residents of the settlement of Vremenny of the Untsukul District of Dagestan gathered in front of the building of the Gimry village administration with a plan to enter their home village. However, it became clear that law enforcers and officials from the district and village administrations left for the settlement of Vremenny without the local residents.

Relatives of Islamic preacher Abu Khalid Nadir, who was detained in the capital of Dagestan on suspicion of arms trafficking, reported in a search conducted in his household. Besides, law enforcers also carried out a search in the office of the website "Salyaf.ru", which posted video records of the lectures given by the Islamic preacher.

On Thursday, October 9, 2014, the Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), unanimously voted for the candidacy of Yuri Kokov, who was nominated for the presidency of the KBR. On the same day, Kokov took the office.

The regional public organization "The Union of 'Don Women'" is to collect an additional amount of about 6000 roubles to pay the fine imposed by the decision of the Novocherkassk City Court for operation of the public association without being registered as a "foreign agent".

The American NGO IREX (Council for International Researches and Exchanges) has announced the termination of its activities in Azerbaijan, which was launched back in 1998, and the closure of its office in Baku.

In the Tambov Region, Evgeny Vitishko, a convicted ecologist from Krasnodar, will be transferred from his colony-settlement to a general-security colony for his admitted violations of the regime, said his advocate Valentina Shaisipova.

A well-known Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid (Nadir Medetov), the kidnapping of whom was announced by his relatives on Wednesday, was found at the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala. His relatives assert that firearms were planted on him.

On October 7, the birthday of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Grozny hosted a mass march, which, according to the authorities, was attended by about 100,000 people. Civil servants, teachers and students of educational institutions claim they were forced to take part in the event.

Ecologist Evgeny Vitishko sentenced in the case of damage to the fence around the so-called "Governor Tkachov's summer cottage" is being prepared for the transfer from a penal settlement-colony to a common-security penal colony. This was announced by Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), residents of the village of Psykhurei, Baksan District, have held a gathering and declared the inadmissibility of desecration of the local cemetery, where two suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) were killed.

Residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, where a large-scale special operation is underway, report that almost all civilians left the village. The villagers complain that law enforcers do not allow them to make video records of what is happening in the village and take their mobile phones away.

At a rally held in the village of Terekli-Mekteb of the Nogai District of Dagestan, Akhmed Bataliev, the Deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, has made public a name of the policeman, who shot and killed Eradil Asanov and promised to carry out the investigation into the incident.

Three suspected members of an illegal armed formation (IAF), who were shot dead by policemen at a checkpoint of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) near the village of Khebda of the Shamil District of Dagestan, were involved in the assassinations of prominent religious figures Sirazhutdin Khuriksky and Shamil Badaviev.

The incident in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), where a man died after a mass fight at the hospital and where his death was followed by mass protests, was the result of the complex problems in the Stavropol Territory. Meanwhile, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe the conflict should not be divided into interethnic and domestic sides.

In Moscow, a memorial ceremony took place near the building of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". It was organized by the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI); its participants demanded to find those who had ordered the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

In the villages of Kharakhi and Orota of the Khunzakh District of Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was introduced, a source from the enforcement bodies reports. Residents of the village of Orota state they have no problems associated with the regime.

In Azerbaijan, Movsum Samedov, the convicted leader of the Islamic Party, faces a threat of tightening of detention regime. The administration of the penal colony No. 12, where Movsum Samedov was transferred, has submitted to the court a request to place him in the Gobustan closed prison for the term of three years.