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The agio around the replacement of Dagestani leader has forced the Kremlin to find a temporary compromise figure, remote from all the clans. However, after September 2018, Vasiliev will hardly retain the post, editors-in-chief of Dagestani mass media believe.

The Sochi authorities want to build restaurants and hotels at the Tulip Tree, sacred for Adygs, said Ruslan Gvashev, a Circassian activist, who is on a hunger strike since September 11 in protest against the fine imposed on him for praying at the Tree on the Adygs' Memory Day.

The Prosecutor's Office has demanded life imprisonment for Arthur Bekbolatov, sentenced to 24 years in prison on charges of killing Dagestani policemen.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has found out that Chechen power agents had brought to the meeting with Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, not Makhma Muskiev and Shamkhan Yusupov from the "execution list", but their brothers.

Today, Ruslan Gvashev, a Circassian activist, holding his hunger strike since September 11, could get out of his bed and talk to delegates of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Krasnodar Territory, although he could not speak for the last four days.

Mikhail Saakashvili has submitted the documents that prevent his extradition to Georgia, reported the Ukrainian General Prosecutor. According to an advocate of Mikhail Saakashvili, the Migration Service has not responded to the application for asylum on time.

The terrorist organization "Islamic State"(IS) banned in Russia claimed responsibility for the killings of policemen in the Kizlyar and Babayurt Districts of Dagestan. This is reported on the website of the NCO SITE Intelligence Group with reference to the militant-affiliated agency "Amaq".

Graduates of the Kunta-Khadji Kishiev University, who got their diplomas on October 2, will be able to work for the Muftiate of Chechnya and teach in madrassas.

The death of Muslim Kushtanashvili, an 18-year-old Georgian citizen, who left to fight in the Middle East in 2015, was reported on October 2.

Three persons have been detained on suspicion of plotting an assassination attempt on Imam Khamzat Chumakov in Ingushetia. One more suspect managed to escape.

A cardiologist has diagnosed Ruslan Gvashev with a stroke. However, the Circassian activist continues to refuse medical care. Relatives of Ruslan Gvashev demanded from the Sochi authorities to apologize to the activist.

Power agents have blown up the houses of alleged militants in the village of Bolshaya Zadoyevka in the Kizlyar District, claiming that explosive devices were stored there. However, villagers doubt the fact.

All the 83 LGBTs detained in Baku are back at large, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) have reported; however, advocates could not confirm this information.

On October 1, about 120 members of the Nogai communities of Moscow and Novy Urengoy took part in the Remembrance and Sorrow Day. After the battle on October 1, 1783, and tsarist raids, Nogai people were scattered; many of them were killed, said Ramil Ishmukhambetov, a historian.

More than a hundred people gathered in Istanbul, demanding from Russian authorities to cancel the decision of the Sochi court and stop persecuting the Circassian activist Ruslan Gvashev.

Journalist Khadija Ismayilova filed a complaint about the delay in the trial concerning the ban on her leaving Azerbaijan. Today, an advocate of the journalist has reported that the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) began communication on his client's complaint.

The FSB reported the detention of two militants who planned to use a powerful bomb to blow up a religious figure in Ingushetia.

Out of the more than 80,000 Chechen residents of conscription age, 500 people will be selected within the autumn draft campaign which began on October 1. Local residents are attracted by military service with the opportunity to build a career.

Members of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, who planned to commit transport terror acts in September, have been detained near Moscow, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) reports. There are natives of Northern Caucasus among the detainees.

A policeman was wounded in a shootout with alleged militants that broke out in the Babayurt District of Dagestan, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.