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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.

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.

The Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's request to help Armenia has forced Kremlin to balance between its allied obligations and the unwillingness to become a party to the Karabakh conflict with the risk of aggravating relations with Turkey, political analysts believe.

Authorities fail to enforce the decree on helping the Karachais as a rehabilitated nation; for example, they have failed the gasification of some villages, Kady-Khodji Khalkechev, the head of the Congress of the Karachai People, has stated.

During the week from October 26 to November 1, 2020, no information was received about any casualties or wounded people 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 information from open sources.

During the missile attack on the city of Shushi, the Persian Mosque "Goar Aga" of the 19th century was damaged, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh have reported.

Since the onset of the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, 91 civilians have perished, and 400 others wounded under shelling in Azerbaijani cities and villages, the country's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated.

By using phosphorus ammunition, Azerbaijan poses a threat of an environmental disaster, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated. The Azerbaijani MoD denies the use of phosphorus ammunition and blames the Armenian side for doing this.

The tradition of repression is returning into Russian politics, activists of the oppositional movements of Rostov-on-Don have stated at a picket in memory of victims of political repressions.

Yevgenia Babayan, an 85-year-old resident of Gadrut, has stated that she had been forcibly taken from her home by Azerbaijani militaries to Baku, where she was subjected to inhuman treatment.

Azerbaijani troops are shelling Stepanakert; the central marketplace and a residential area came under fire, rescuers have noted, adding that the data on victims is being specified.

In the course of the election campaign, brawls and scandals of supporters of the ruling party with the opposition were often registered in Georgia; administrative resources were used; attempts to bribe voters and put pressure on civil servants were recorded, the local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has stated.

Today, the positions of Azerbaijani troops deployed in three districts are shelled by artillery; at night the fire in the Karabakh conflict zone was delivered, among other weapons, from missile launchers, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), has condemned Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about the French President, Emmanuel Macron, for his refusal to condemn caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. The head of Chechnya has demanded from LDPR leader to apologize for his words and not interfere in religious matters.