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The resignation from the post of the curator of the territorial sector has not reduced the influence of Magomed Daudov; however, the first public criticism from Ramzan Kadyrov is a bad sign for him, Ruslan Kutaev, an activist, and Ruslan Gereev, a publicist, believe.

The Dagestani MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov doesn't fight for Russia, because he goes out without the Russian flag, said his rival Conor McGregor. According to Conor, his revenge fight with Khabib is inevitable.

The actions of law enforcers in Baku on October 19 and 20 violated the right of Azerbaijani citizens to peaceful assembly. After two protests, 34 people were arrested' and the country's authorities should immediately release them, the Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) has stated.

The Ministry of National Relations (MNR) of North Ossetia is seeking to criminally prosecute Artyom Plato, a video blogger, who called the right-hand bank of Vladikavkaz the Ingush one.

A court pronounced a decision to arrest Arsen Babayan, the former deputy chief of the administration of the Armenian parliament, in a case on changing the chair of the Constitutional Court.

Criticism of the Sufism will be a pretext for a new attack of the authorities on blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, believe some participants of discussions in social networks. Other Internet users noted that earlier, no people professing Sufism had been among the blogger's audience anyway.

By hiding information from the Georgian society, the Georgian secret services pose a threat of open armed conflict on the border, states the KGB of South Ossetia. Today, the Georgian secret services have called the South-Ossetian KGB's statement an attempt to justify provocations from the South-Ossetian side.

Sources from the administration of Ramzan Kadyrov mentioned an engagement in different tasks and challenges as the reason for the release of Magomed Daudov from his duties of a supervisor of two Chechen districts. Meanwhile, the sources also pointed to a nervous atmosphere among subordinates of the leader of Chechnya.

An Alexander Golovin's painting is removed from an exhibition and will be returned to the museum in Grozny, the Tretyakov Gallery reports.

Social network users criticized Malika Djikaeva, a blogger from North Ossetia, for posting a frivolous video in hijab. Some of the users treated the video as a way for the promotion of the young woman's account.

On October 23, the Human Rights Education and Monitoring Centre (EMC) held a meeting at the Open Society Georgia Centre, where the results of a survey of labour safety conditions at Georgian enterprises were presented to the public.

In his complaint to Yuri Chaika, the General Public Prosecutor of Russia, Musa Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, demanded to take the investigation of his application about torture under control. According to Aliev, law enforcers first beat him up, trying to get a confession to raping a girl, and then began threatening his family.

Azerbaijani pro-governmental media have published records of conversations of Gyultekin Gadjibeili, an oppositional politician, with US and EU diplomats regarding the dispersal, on October 19, in central Baku, by law enforcers of participants of the unsanctioned protest action.

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, has increased salaries of some top-ranking officials, but this measure was not discussed in the parliament or by the public. Rights defenders and lawyers have criticized the Premier for making the decision in secrecy.

After his detention, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a Dagestani journalist, arrested under the case of financing terrorism, was for the first time visited by his wife and four children.

The Mufti of Chechnya has damned the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, for his harsh criticism of the Sufi rites widespread in the republic. The blogger has violated the rules of a religious dispute, and pushed some of his supporters away, Islamic scholars believe.

The shadow economy, deficit of qualified workforce and corruption lead the republics of Northern Caucasus to last places in socioeconomic ratings, the economists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. In their opinion, the financing of outsiders from Moscow will continue.

Akhmed Bilalov, the former head of the "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" Company, has been detained in the United States for violating the immigration regime and is currently in custody pending removal proceedings, reports the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The movement of passenger and freight trains along the South Caucasus Railway was paralyzed because of a strike. Locomotive drivers demand to increase their salaries.

Today, the court has refused to release on bail Irakli Okruashvili, the leader of the "Victorious Georgia" Party, who was arrested in a case on organization of riots in front of the parliament building.