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Ramzan Kadyrov has declared the information of the "Novaya Gazeta" about detentions and torture of Chechen officials to be false. Amid reports about an attempt to poison him, the head of Chechnya has specified that he is on a sick leave.

A criminal case has been opened against Fuad Gakhramanly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about him beating up his wife and two daughters. Political opponents have used a family conflict for their own purposes, Gakhramanly himself has stated; his wife said that she has no claims to the husband.

Ramzan Kadyrov has assured that he doesn't want to work outside of Chechnya and has no claims for any federal-level post.

On the website of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan, Rasul Kadiev, a Dagestani lawyer, has found a decision on a lawsuit on the lands of the Borozdinovskaya Forestry. The court ruled that the disputed lands belong to Dagestan, but Chechnya still claims to them.

Bagaudin Opiev, a resident of Ingushetia, convicted for helping militants, has sent a video to the "Caucasian Knot", in which he told about torture after his detention and during the investigation within the case of the "Ordzhonikidze Jamaat".

The Tskhinvali City Court has fully acquitted Tamara Mearakishvili. The activist intends to seek her rehabilitation and punishment of law enforcers for prosecuting her unlawfully.

The Azerbaijani Penitentiary Service refused advocate Elchin Sadygov to visit his client journalist Ikram Ragimov. The Penitentiary Service explained its refusal by the fact that in his appeal, the defender did not indicate the title of the Penitentiary Service's head.

The US authorities should force Turkey to stop its military operation in Syria, declare members of the Kurdish community at a rally in Yerevan. Citizens of Armenia joined the protest action.

The Chechen authorities have grudgingly reacted to the information about detentions and torture of Chechen officials. Minister Djambulat Umarov called the information "fake", and then users of social networks found the version about clean-ups credible.

Investigative actions in the case against journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev have not been carried out for at least a month, but an investigator refers to them as grounds for an extension of the journalist's arrest.

At the beginning of the activities on determining the Georgian-Azerbaijani border, Georgia proposed to use the map of 1938, and Azerbaijan the official maps of the republics compiled in the 1960s. According to the first map, the monasteries of Udabno and Chichkhituri are on the Georgian territory, while according to the second option, they are on the Azerbaijani side.

The advocate has stated health problems of Afghan Mukhtarly and called on the authorities to have mercy on him and other political prisoners. The founders of the Baku Press Club have joined this call.

Local officials may be really unhappy with Kadyrov, but any opposition to him is possible only with the support from Moscow, the interviewed political analysts are sure.

A resident of the Cherek District is accused of having entered into sexual intercourse with a minor. According to investigators, the Imam of the mosque contributed to the crime, since the couple managed to make a religious marriage.

The Panel for Militaries' Cases of the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the verdict to Timur Tumgoev, a native of Vladikavkaz, sentenced to 18 years in colony within the case of participation in Syrian fighters' groupings.

During a search conducted in the house of Khasan Katsiev's father in the city of Karabulak, law enforcers examined a laptop and all the phones, the activist's sister has stated. According to the advocate, on October 17, a court in Stavropol will consider a complaint against the extension of Katsiev's arrest.

In Makhachkala, a court left journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev in custody until November 13.

Apti Alaudinov, the chief of the Chechen police, denied the information that he fell into disgrace because of a comic slap to a portrait of Ramzan Kadyrov. The police chief called on people not to believe "every gossip."

Chechen Mufti Salakh Mezhiev got in Jordan not the title of academician, but symbolic membership in the Institute for Islamic Thought, which does not provide any advantage in the Muslim world, note Arabists and Caucasian scholars.

A resident of Georgia and his alleged accomplice are suspected of kidnapping a 19-year-old girl in the south of the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia reports.