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For recent 10 years, from 2003 till 2013, more than 3500 members of the armed underground of Northern Caucasus were killed, and nearly 8000 others were detained. This was reported by Sergey Chenchik, Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Russian Federation for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Starting from October 30, Azha Batyrkhanova, a resident of the Buynaksk District, cannot learn about the whereabouts of her daughter Zariyat Batyrkhanova, born in 1988. According to the woman, during the recent mobile phone conversation, her daughter has told her that she was detained by law enforcers and being brought to Makhachkala.

On November 1, four supporters of theologian Talekh Bagirzade were sentenced to the administrative arrests. Activists Bakir Suleimanov, Shakhriyar Abbasov, and Tabriz Sabirli were arrested for 15 days, and Abbas Guseinov was arrested for 30 days. This was reported by Elchin Bekhbudov, the leader of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture.

During the raid held on October 23, staff members of the special forces of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) used violence against 10 prisoners kept in a punishment isolation ward of the penal colony No. 2 located in the village of Chernokozovo of the Naur District of Chechnya.

Today in Baku, Talekh Bagirzade (Bagirov), accused of illegal possession of drugs, was sentenced to two years in prison. His defence intends to appeal against the verdict. According to Anar Gasymov, Bagirzade's advocate, the trial was held with flagrant violations.

A secret women's madrasa was found in Stavropol, where the organizers promoted extremism among female students, the Territorial Department of the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB) has reported.

As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), four persons have been detained as suspects of committing grave crimes, including the kidnapping of entrepreneur Nauruz Cherkasov.

As reported by Beslan Matiev, the Minister of Public Health of Ingushetia, the patient Bogatyryov, 60, a resident of the village of Galashki, Sunzha District of Ingushetia, who was wounded in a shooting, is in serious but stable condition; there is no threat to his life.

The defence of Said Amirov, Mayor of Makhachkala, who was dismissed from office, asks Veronika Skvortsova, Minister of Public Health, to intervene with the situation with his medical treatment at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and claims new charges with plotting a terror act are groundless.

In Dagestan, in Kaspiisk, a 28-year-old resident of Makhachkala was detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting some members of the "Makhachkala" grouping. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), suicide bomber Naida Asiyalova, who committed the terror act in Volgograd, was a member of the "Makhachkala" grouping.

A powerful improvised explosive device (IED) in the form of a "shahid belt" was found in an abandoned private household on the outskirts of one of the villages of the Stavropol Territory. This was reported today by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

At the Parliament of Dagestan, the faction Fair Russia Party prepared an appeal to the Prosecutor's Office against Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR). MPs demand to institute a criminal case against him for inciting ethnic hatred. This was reported by Kamil Davdiev, the leader of the faction.

In the Sabunchu District of Baku, five supporters of defendant theologian Talekh Bagirzade, who came to the court building to support him, were detained. This was reported by eyewitnesses. Later, three of the detainees were released.

About 20 persons took part in a picket near the Division of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Cherkessk, demanding to let them entering an IVS (temporary detention facility). They have explained their actions by the fact that their detained relative Khasan Khubiev was subjected to beatings.

On October 31, in Astrakhan, near the monument "To Fighters for Soviet Power" in the Bratsky Park, a traditional action was held within the "Strategy 31". The action was attended by more than 20 persons, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On October 31, in Volgograd, 15 people gathered for a rally against political repressions and for disbanding the Centre for Combating Extremism. The list of protesters' demands included release of all political prisoners and termination of repressions against "dissident political and civil activists."

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found violations of the rights of the applicants in the case of disappearance of five residents of Chechnya in 2001-2006; the relatives of the missing people have been awarded compensation in the total amount of 317,818 euros, says the decision of the court released today.

Yusup Lakaev, a native of Chechnya and a suspect of killing the first secretary of the Russia's Embassy to Abkhazia Dmitry Vishernev and his wife Olga Visherneva, has been put on the international wanted list, reports the investigating department of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia.

In the morning of October 31, in the village of Komsomolskoe, Magomed Gadjiev, the former head of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, was shot dead by unidentified persons in his current workplace. His bodyguard was wounded, investigators report.