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The court in Volgograd has ruled to fine three participants of the unsanctioned march against the pension reform by 10,000 roubles each.

The Polish Refugee Council has refused to grant asylum to Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a native of Grozny, although agreed to provide refuge to the blogger's family, Tumso himself has stated.

The soldier Agasi Mkrtchyan, whose body was found on the defensive point of one of military units, died as a result of shelling from the Azerbaijani side, the office of the President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has stated.

After the signing of the Chechen-Ingush agreement on exchange of territories between, two posts on the Chechen side of the border were dismantled.

The body of Agasi Mkrtchyan with a gunshot wound is found in the territory of a military unit, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports today.

An 18-year-old native of Chechnya is arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror act, the French media report. The Embassy of Russia is currenty verifying the information.

Today, the court has pronounced a decision to let journalists attend the hearing in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny.

In the territory of the Buynaksk District in Dagestan, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced for the second time in September. In the Kumtorkala District, the special operation became the first one in 2018.

In Tbilisi, Zaza Saralidze and Malkhaz Machalikashvili have called on members of political parties to join their protest action. The appeal was voiced after the police did not let the protestors to set up a tent in front of the parliament building.

Law enforcers began searching for militants in the Buynaksk and Kumtorkala Districts, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Dagestan reported.

Teimur Akhundov, a resident of Gazakh, died after being summoned to the local district police department on September 25. His sister reported the signs of torture on his body. The police claim that the man died at the district diagnostic centre, where he was brought because he felt bad.

Forensic experts came to the conclusion about diagnosing with serious diseases Manvel Grigoryan, a former member of the National Assembly of Armenia and the head of the "Yerkrapah" Volunteer Union. The defence of the arrested former delegate intends to request the court to release him from custody.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has prolonged by three months the detention of Abdusamad Gamidov, a former Dagestani Prime Minister, and three other former high-ranking officials. The defendants are using their administrative resources to exert pressure on witnesses, an investigator has stated in court.

The events in Kendelen have shown the Kremlin that Yuri Kokov is unable to maintain stability in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Andrei Serenko believes. Dmitry Oreshkin, an independent political analyst, is sure that Moscow officials, while combating the opposition, which manifested itself during the incident in Kendelen, are safeguarding themselves.

The protesters against the transfer of a part of the territory of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia to Chechnya left the venue, when dozens of law enforcers' cars arrived there. Some activists were detained.

Murtazali and Patimat Gasanguseinov have decided to stop picketing for several days, because the head of Dagestan, a meeting with whom they are seeking, is away.

Rajab Abdulatipov, a Dagestani MP, was detained on suspicion of taking part in a criminal community; he will soon be charged, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported on its website.

Against the backdrop of protests in Sunzha and Magas, the heads of Chechnya and Ingushetia have signed an agreement on the mutual border.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has partially granted a cassation appeal filed by journalist Fikret Faramazoglu and reduced his sentence from seven to six years of imprisonment. The defence does not agree with this verdict and will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

Over the past day, units of the Armenian armed forces 91 times violated the ceasefire in various directions of the front.