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In Stepanakert, students held a march in memory of philanthropist Levon Airapetyan. Today, a mourning rally is planned to be held in the village of Vank, where Levon Airapetyan was born, and the Gandzasar Monastery will hold a memorial service in his memory, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Historians, sociologists, geographers, economists, and ethnographers have not yet determined where the borders of the Caucasus pass. The United States and the EU politically distinguish the Caucasus, including also as a territory for the transit of energy resources from Central Asia. This was noted by participants of a seminar held at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (known as MGIMO).

The NGO "Civic Assistance Committee" cannot be a defendant in the claim for protecting business reputation filed after the Svetlana Gannushkina's post in Facebook, state lawyers of the NGO. They filed an appeal against the decision pronounced by the Shatoi District Court of Chechnya.

The regional party's branch has submitted an application to the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) to register its initiative group for holding a referendum on direct election of the head of the republic.

Today, the burial service for Armenian philanthropist Levon Airapetyan, who died in a Mordovian penal colony, has been held in the Cathedral of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Moscow.

Radjab Guseinov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), detained on October 18, was placed under administrative arrest, his advocate has found out.

Georgian citizen Shota Karkuzashvili was released after he had paid a fine for breaking the border, reported the South-Ossetian KGB (Committee for State Security).

Two out of five persons wounded in an armed attack on the party's election office in the Marneuli District of Georgia are in grave condition.

On October 19-20, the ceasefire regime was violated on the Armenian border and in the Karabakh conflict zone with the use of heavy machine guns, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.

In Georgia, NGOs have released the data on monitoring carried out by the media, which covered the pre-election campaign. TV Channels showed only a small number of critical discussions, reported Nana Dzvelishvili, a member of the "Charter of Journalistic Ethics".

Four women and 11 children were taken away from Syrian "hot spots" into the government-controlled territory, the leader of Chechnya has reported.

Since the start of 2017, in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), direct elections have been held only of the heads of 75 villages; almost all – in North Ossetia. The remaining heads of North-Caucasian municipalities were elected by local deputies.

Tigran Khachatryan, a soldier of the Karabakh army, was killed by a shot from the Azerbaijani side, reported the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh.

The man killed during his attack on GIBDD (traffic police) inspectors, committed in the village of Yandare, has been identified as Magomed Miziev, a 20-year-old resident of the city of Karabulak, a law enforcement source reports.

A driver hit a policeman with a car and injured two other policemen with a knife at a road police (known as GIBDD) checkpoint in the Yandare village, and after that he was killed.

A criminal case against a resident of Dagestan who installed electricity supply to premises at a rural public spring shortly before the death of a six-year-old child was brought to court.

Since 2013, power agents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have established 53 cases of financing terrorists; 11 of them – in 2017, local law enforcers report.

Georgia has fixed facts of intimidation of oppositionists and dismissals of them for political reasons, reports the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy (ISFED). In their turn, authorities announce "an unprecedentedly calm" election campaign.

The appellate instance has denied four complaints against the verdict passed to a former policeman in Dagestan convicted under the case of customized and ritual murders.

The law enforcement agencies have failed to question those who may know about the disappearance of Zelimkhan Bakaev. Besides, the information about the singer's possible departure from the country has been also not checked. This has been reported by the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya.