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Ramzan Kadyrov has "outgrown" his status of the leader of Chechnya, but the question of his future career is in the competence of the Russian President. This opinion has been expressed by experts after the Ramzan Kadyrov's new announcement of his willingness to resign.

A three-day hands-on training ended on November 28 at the high-mountain ranges "Kamkhud" and "Alagyaz". Over 300 militaries took part in them.

The indictment on the case of plotting a coup d'état in Montenegro mentions the name of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, the Russian "Izvestia" writes referring to Montenegrin oppositionists.

The attack on policemen committed in the city of Kotelnikovo, Volgograd Region, has shocked the townspeople, local residents report. According to the district administration, the attacker had studied in the Kotelnikovo District, and worked in Chechnya and in the Krasnodar Territory. The health condition of one of the wounded policemen is stably grave.

Local amateur fishermen have complained that they were attacked by guards of the moorage of expensive yachts in the Sochi Seaport. The fishermen claim that owners of the marine want to completely block the access of Sochi residents to berths in the yachting area.

Twelve seamen from the arrested ships of the Dagestani Shipping Company, who are on hunger strike in Astrakhan, have accused customs of arbitrary behaviour and asked the acting head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev to help them.

Since November 15, relatives of Zaur Shamsudinov, a detained resident of Dagestan, cannot obtain information from police about his whereabouts. He is kept at the police station, they suppose.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has refused to change the verdict to six supporters of the "Muslim Unity" movement, having found them guilty of resisting the police in Nardaran. The defence treats the consideration of the cassation as formal.

Law enforcers have detained Sabir Akmurzaev, Alaudin Yakupov and Arsen Kacharbaev, residents of the village of Novo-Dmitrovka in Dagestan, after planting drugs and ammunition into their house during searches, their relatives assert.

The caught dolphins were kept in awful conditions, the Branch of the Russian Frontier Service for the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the major river) has reported.

A body of an Azerbaijani soldier found dead on the border with Armenia has been transferred to Azerbaijan with the mediation of agents from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In Chechnya, restrictions on the sale of alcoholic drinks forced a number of entrepreneurs to close their businesses, but did not prevent the illegal trade in alcoholic beverages, reported local residents.

A resident of Rostov-on-Don has appealed to the Tver District Court of Moscow with a claim for 543,000 roubles against the McDonald's Company about compensation for moral and material harm for hot coffee spilled on him at a cafe. This was reported by advocate Pyotr Dombrovitsky.

The managers of the "Assorti" Supermarket in Grozny have explained that they would stop selling alcohol beverages in the contest with the onset of the Muslim month of Rabi-al-Awal and as a sign of supporting the anti-alcohol policy pursued in the region.

The authorities have started recognizing the problem of exporting children from Azerbaijan to the territory controlled by the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in the Russian Federation by the court); however, quite a lot of intensive work is needed to solve the problem. This was reported by the Meydan TV.

At the Christie's Auction, the Imam Shamil's dagger, made approximately in 1841, has been sold for 548,700 pounds sterling (731,000 US dollars).

The persecution of Akim Kuliev, which was reported by Khabib Nurmagomedov, an MMA fighter, was launched because of the desire to win authorities' favour of some high-ranking power agent in the Rutul District of Dagestan, Kuliev's relatives have stated.

A Russian citizen detained in Tbilisi on November 21 has confessed to storing weapon, but denies any contacts with the persons killed in a special operation. This has been reported by Georgian Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili.

During an antiterrorist operation held in Tbilisi, law enforcers detained Russian citizen Said Dudaev, reported the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office. The information about the killing of Akhmed Chataev in the special operation is under verification, announced the US Ambassador to Georgia.

The case of Arthur Ushaev and Ruslan Namatov, accused of attacking servicemen in Chechnya under the command of Shamil Basaev and Khattab in 2000, has been sent to the court.