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After the coming out of James Longman, a reporter of the "ABC Chanel", who visited the Chechen republic, Chechen police chief Apti Alaudinov has assured him that in Chechnya, gays are not afraid of persecution by the authorities, but of their relatives' reaction to their sexual orientation.

In Armenia, officials and ordinary residents paid tribute to victims of the shooting of the Armenian parliament on October 27, 1999. The possibility of resumption of the investigation into the terror act was discussed.

Law enforcers are on duty at the exit from the only hypermarket in the Chechen capital where alcoholic beverages are sold. The law enforcers inspect the people who entered the wine and vodka department and detain them if alcoholic beverages are found, local residents report.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint against the administrative arrest of Ilham Gusein, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Majlis of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence treats the arrest as unjustified.

A resident of the Kizlyar District, kept in custody at the Khasavyurt SIZO (pre-trial prison), was hospitalized with a craniocerebral trauma; investigators opened a case about the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.

On October 26, at a picket in Gukovo, former employees of the "Kingcoal" Company adopted an appeal to the prosecutor asking to oblige Roman Kopets, the bankruptcy manager of the "Zamchalovsky Anthracite", to report weekly on the progress of tendering the underground workings.

About 200 people gathered in Moscow for the mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the terror act at the Theatrical Centre. Only 60 victims out of a thousand received compensations from the authorities; it's too late for others to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Igor Trunov, a lawyer, has stated.

On October 20-26, Azerbaijani soldiers fired 1500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has reported today.

Parents protested against the arrest of their children. According to the protesters, those accused of unrests didn't commit any unlawful actions; and they were tortured after arrest.

The screening by the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) of a video showing the cruelty of Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, is explained by the cleansing of Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue conducted upon his permit, Alexei Malashenko and Sergey Zhavoronkov, political analysts, believe.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were subjected to shelling from machine guns and sniper rifles, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

On October 25, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft), held a series of solo pickets in central Makhachkala near the complex of buildings of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the FSB.

The women-natives of Northern Caucasus, who had turned to Russian authorities asking to evacuate them from the conflict zone in Syria, has stopped communicating with their relatives.

The video clips by Malika Djikaeva, a blogger from North Ossetia, can be painfully perceived by Muslims; however, they contain no direct desecration of Islam, the Islamic experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Two activists are hunger-striking near Makhachkala for the fifth day, demanding to return historical lands to residents of the Kumyk villages of Alburikent, Kyakhulai and Tarki. One more protester felt bad; and he is in hospital.

A Moscow hotel was taken under guard after several hundred people, outraged by the words of the Irish MMA fighter Conor McGregor about Dagestanis, tried to reach him.

A check of documents after the Friday namaz (prayer) at the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala passed without detentions. Three mobile posts with dozens of law enforcers were deployed in the mosque area.

On October 25, the "Grozny" TV Channel posted a video on the Instagram social network about a native of Chechnya who hit a journalist of the "Krym 24" TV Channel in Simferopol for a remark made by him. A resident of Chechnya, Abu Gadjiev, "is already at home, admits his wrongdoing and regrets of what he had done," the author of the report said off screen.

On October 24, a patrol of the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) was detained for some time by agents of the KGB of South Ossetia on a disputable section of the border with Georgia. The European External Action Service (EEAS) called the situation a "serious incident" and stated it would achieve diplomatic response.

A video about the brutality of Islam Kadyrov, the former Mayor of Grozny, also describes the methods applied by other Chechen officials, some users of social networks believe. They expressed their astonishment by the fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is not going to punish accomplices of the former Mayor.