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Last night, two militants attacked the police post located near the village of Roshni-Chu in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya and were killed. Policemen did not suffer, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. According to other sources, one policeman was wounded.

Local authorities intimidate the residents of the aul (village) of Volny, who claim land plots and threaten them, trying to compromise the leaders of the public organization "Volny Aul", 256 signatories to the appeal addressed to the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic have stated.

On the first day of the international freestyle wrestling tournament "Alany-2017" held in Vladikavkaz, wrestlers from Northern Caucasus won four gold, three silver and four bronze medals.

A film about the family of a Muslim family and an Orthodox wife caused different opinions among the audience. The President of the "Kunaki" Festival finds the topic very important.

A hideout with a grenade launcher, a grenade, and dozens of rounds, discovered in the Shamil District of Dagestan, had been arranged by the militants killed in 2017, reported the Ministry Internal Affairs (MIA).

A native of Chechnya, detained in Kiev, was put on the international wanted list as an accomplice in the murder of US citizen Pavel Khlebnikov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian Forbes magazine. This was reported by the Ukrainian Security Service in Facebook. Another native of Chechnya was detained in the Poltava Region.

Prices for food products, including imported ones, have already grown, although the cost of most goods remains at the same level, reported residents of Tbilisi. The increase in prices provoked by the devaluation of lari has already begun, and price for the goods in mass demand and imported products will rise, noted economists.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the motion filed by advocates of blogger Mekhman Guseinov. The defence has treated the dismissal of the motions as "disregard for justice and law."

Starting from this morning, law enforcers carry out targeted inspections and searches in the village of Karlanyurt in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, reported local residents. In the village of Novoselskoe, inspections are being conducted starting from November 17.

In Abkhazia, on the third day of the 11th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki", 11 films were shown, including four dedicated to the Caucasus: "Murzakanians", "The Return of the Name", "My City of Baku", and "Come Being Free".

On November 17, the Sochi Art Museum opened the exhibition which aroused great interest among city residents. A significant part of the paintings depict the city of Sochi and the nature of the Western Caucasus.

The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh provided housing to 26 families with many children at the expense of the budget, and other ten families were granted housing from the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. Comfortable houses, provided by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, are much better than public housing, reported the families with many children.

Today, five out of the six natives of Chechnya, accused of hooliganism, have injured themselves at the session of the Moscow City Court (MCC), Ulyana Solopova, the press secretary of the court reports. In this way they have protested against the two-year stay under investigation, an advocate of one of them has suggested.

A journalist of the "Rustavi-2" TV Channel, a former Mikhail Saakashvili's security and two other Georgian citizens have been kidnapped in Ukraine; deportation of them is being prepared now, Mr Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, has stated.

Extraction of gold near the Dagestani village of Kurush is complicated by the fact that the gold deposit is located high in the mountains, believes geologist Isa Gazaliev. In case if a mine is built, it will help to employ hundreds of local residents, reported the Union of Gold Producers of Russia.

Giorgi Barateli, sentenced in 2007 to 26 years of imprisonment for killing Guram Sharadze, a member of the Georgian Parliament, was released under amnesty. This was reported by advocate Mamuka Nozadze.

In the Khasavyurt District, law enforcers have photographed residents of the Novoselskoe village who have come today to the mosque to pray, and written down their personal data.

A video with participation of State Duma MP Anna Kuvychko and cadets was shot with the consent of the cadets' parents, reported the school principal. According to survey, residents of Volgograd do not see any problems in the song, despite a wave of criticism in social networks.

On November 16-17, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 117 times, reported the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Dead bodies of two children have been found under ruins of a burnt private house in the Akusha District.