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The number of mercenaries from the Middle East countries in the Karabakh conflict zone has approached 2000, Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated.

The regular Friday law enforcers' raids at the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala create an image of illegality for it and frighten off the believers. Forced to avoid visiting the mosque, such believers are trying to search for religious information on the Internet and risk to fall under the influence of radical views, the representative of the mosque have stated.

The number of killed civilians has increased to 46, while the number of wounded – to 142, the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh reports. In the morning, the cities of Martuni and Shushi have been shelled with missiles, the Nagorno-Karabakh Service for Emergencies reports.

In Azerbaijani villages, no bomb shelters were equipped at a distance from the frontline, and therefore, local residents have to arrange dugout shelters by themselves. Villagers, whose houses have been destroyed in shelling attacks, move to their neighbours' and relatives' places.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Salakh Mezhiev, the republic's Mufti, who were actively commenting on the murder of the teacher in France, did not react to the terror acts in Vienna. The authorities of the European countries cannot cope with the influx of Muslim refugees and do not take into account their religious specifics, political analysts note.

After the terror acts in Vienna, the Austrian authorities detained natives of Northern Caucasus and the Balkan countries, Russian Ambassador to Austria Dmitry Lyubinsky reported.

The area of forests burned down in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of shelling attacks by the Azerbaijani troops with incendiary weapons has reached 1815 hectares, the Nagorno-Karabakh Service for Emergencies reports. In turn, the Azerbaijani authorities have accused Nagorno-Karabakh of attacking with similar weapons the forests in the vicinity of the Shusha city.

Nurlan Ibragimov, the head of the press service of the Azerbaijani "Karabakh" Football Club (FC) has published a post in social networks calling for violence against Armenians. The UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) has appointed a disciplinary investigation into this case.

The destruction of ancient menhirs (tall stones put in vertical position by people in prehistoric times) ruins the memory of the past, Facebook users were outraged after the message of a local historian from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) about another toppled menhir.

The man accused of an attempted murder of Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the well-known Chechen blogger, has partially admitted his guilt, but insists that he had not planned to kill him. The woman accused of aiding the attacker completely denies her guilt, writes the "Dagens Nyheter".

Most of the Karachais, who survived the deportation, are maintained by their children, since their pensions are not enough to live on, said Marika Khubieva, the organizer of the "Contrary" Project. The Karachais, who has lost their parents due to the deportation, should receive benefits and other support, said Ibragim Shamanov, Director of the Scientific-Research Institute of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).

Some 300 Azerbaijani citizens remain in the camp near Kullar; they will be accommodated in Dagestani boarding houses; and the camp tents will be dismantled with the onset of cold weather. In total, 1200 Azerbaijani citizens willing to return to their homeland have been registered in Dagestan, the operative headquarters under the Azerbaijani Cabinet of Ministers has informed.

The Azerbaijani Army has occupied eight villages in the Djebrail, Zangilan and Gubadli Districts of Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliev has stated on the Twitter. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accused Armenia of shelling the city of Gubadli, which is controlled by Azerbaijani militaries.

Blogger Dibir Dibirov has announced struggle fight against the publics, which had posted photos of women from Dagestan accompanied by offensive comments. Bloggers have to do policemen's work, social network users have noted.

In the village of Shikharkh, where internally displaced persons (IDPs) live, most apartments have been damaged during shelling attacks. In the city of Terter, houses, shops, and schools have been destroyed, while in the village of Yukhary Giyameddinli, sheep have been killed, local residents report.

Authors of the threats received by Ksenia Sobchak after her dispute with Ramzan Kadyrov about the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have damaged the reputation of the leader of Chechnya, human rights defender Igor Kalyapin notes. Ramzan Kadyrov should publicly distance himself from those threats, human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina believes.

This morning, villages in the Agdam and Aghjabadi Districts are being shelled with artillery from the direction of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Today, participants of a protest action against the election outcome, who spent a night in tents set up in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, have left Rustaveli Avenue.

Third violated ceasefire agreement in the Karabakh conflict zone; coronavirus infection spread statistics in the Caucasus; parliamentary elections in Georgia; public outcry caused by Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about the French president; events in memory of victims of political repressions in Southern Russia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 26-November 1, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Baku has treated the Armenia's statement about the capture in Nagorno-Karabakh of a mercenary from Syria fighting for Azerbaijan as falsified. In his turn, Khikmet Gadjiev, an assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, has stated that militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party are fighting on Armenia's side.