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Authorities and law enforcers in Northern Caucasus are helping families in searching their relatives for the purpose of "honour killings", including LGBT* people. Transferring the inquiry into such cases to other countries could help solve the problem.

Hundreds of people gathered at the memorial complex to the victims of repression to honour the memory of the victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict which occurred in the autumn of 1992.

A protest action against the deportation of Selima Khadisova was held in Vienna. In Russia, the woman has been accused of having ties to illegal armed formations (IAFs). The Chechen diaspora claims that the woman fled from domestic violence.

The leader of Chechnya suggested that young fellow countrymen leading an idle lifestyle serve in the Russian Army and thereby prove their commitment to traditional values.

During her stream, Vera Egorenkova, a trash streamer from the city of Oryol, spat at the image of the "Motherland Calls!" monument in Volgograd and hit it with a rag.

After he burned down and trampled on the printed newspaper version while advertising a store, a Dagestani blogger has apologized to the editorial board of the "As-Salam" newspaper and all the Muslims. The editorial board has demanded that the actors of the video clip be held accountable and called on people to refrain from shopping in that store.

Investigators reduced the period for looking through the materials of the Nadezhda Kevorkova’s case from five to two days, advocate Kaloi Akhilgov reports.

Selima, 32, who fled domestic violence, has been detained in Bosnia. According to the Chechen Diaspora, she was put on the wanted list in Russia at the insistence of her husband's relatives.

The Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Orenburg Region will check a complaint filed by former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov about torture in the “Black Dolphin” penitentiary facility.

The leader of Chechnya promised retaliation for a drone attack on the building of the Russian Special Forces University in Gudermes. Ramzan Kadyrov ordered military commanders not to take prisoners of war (POWs) in the special military operation (SMO) zone.

In Moscow, investigators re-examine all the circumstances of the case on the Anna Tsomartova’s disappearance. Earlier, the case was conducted by investigators in Dagestan, and new materials have appeared in the case now.

During the week from October 21 to 27, 2024, one law enforcer was killed and another was wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, based on its own materials and the information from other open sources.

The killing of a fighter of the “Rosgvardiya” (National Guard of Russia) in Chechnya may indicate the activation of the armed underground, but it is unlikely to affect the reputation of Ramzan Kadyrov, who declared that militants had been eliminated.

A solo picket held by journalist Magomed Magomedov in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev has attracted increased attention from passers-by in Makhachkala.

Parliamentary elections in Georgia, attacks on law enforcers in Chechnya, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, repression against the Azerbaijani opposition, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 20-27, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Marat Abdyushev, a resident of Bashkortostan, who attacked a policeman in Krasnodar and stole his weapon, was detained in the territory of a gardening association in the city.

The Astrakhan Regional Branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a detainee publicly apologized for a conflict with a local woman near a store, during which he insulted her nationality.

The wife of Magomed Alkhanov, a Chechen native, has declared his innocence in the case of the attack on the Pskov paratroopers and intends to appeal against the verdict. Svetlana Gannushkina*, a human rights defender, treats the witness' testimony in Alkhanov's case as dubious.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Evgeny Konin, a Ukrainian citizen, to eight years of freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of espionage.

Authorities have failed to disclose information about what gas was used during the storming of the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre, where terrorists took hostages in October 2002. The results of the investigation have not yet been disclosed; and the officials responsible for the hostages' deaths have not been punished.