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Leyla Mustafaeva, the spouse of Afghan Mukhtarly, and his advocate Archil Chopikashvili have appealed to the Georgian Parliament with a request to create a special commission to investigate the actions of the officials involved in the kidnapping of journalist Afghan Mukhtarly.

The "first person of the country" did not like the fact that Boris Nemtsov was murdered near the Kremlin. This was declared by Zaur Dadaev and Shagid Gubashev in their final speeches. The convicts believe that the law enforcement agencies had to report urgently on the solution of the crime, so they decided to bring the innocent persons to justice.

The Russian Minister of Justice has announced the terms of payment of compensations awarded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to relatives of the people killed and injured during the seizure of the Beslan School by terrorists in 2004.

Three brothers of Chechen origin were found in the city of Tall Afar, and a two-year-old boy from Dagestan was found in the city of Mosul, the RT (Russia Today) has reported.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has slightly mitigated the verdict in the case of the politician Boris Nemtsov's murder. The SC has cancelled the fines, but upheld the terms of imprisonment.

The protesters came to the Tbilisi City Council (Sakrebulo) building with a demand to remove from the agenda an issue on transfer of two land plots to the Bidzina Ivanishvili's company. Some of the protestors were detained.

Two persons killed today during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Shamil District have been identified. This has been reported by an informed source.

Today, the National Antiterrorist Committee has reported that since earlier 2017, the law enforcement agencies have stopped the activities of 120 members of the so-called "dormant militant units" in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced the decision that the Russian authorities violated the right to life of 21 residents of the Chechen village of Novye Aldy, killed by law enforcers in 2000.

In Dagestan, two militants were killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) area. According to the NAC, the people killed in the outskirts of the Teletl village in the Shamil District were identified as members of the Shamil grouping, which committed several killings in 2015-2016.

On October 9, Idris Cherkhigov, a 28-year-old nephew of the Chechen leader, was appointed the chief for the Chechen department of the road police (known as GIBDD). This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya.

In the Tsentralny District of Volgograd, several crypts of the 17-18th centuries were opened during the excavations in the protected cultural heritage area. Workers discovered the burials during the works on laying water pipes held on October 4.

In Gukovo, participants of the miners' protest have decided to prolong their protest until March 20, 2018, due to the lack of noticeable improvements with the payment of wage arrears.

Murad Magomedov and Ramazan Magomedov, who were detained in Makhachkala after they had reported discovery of a bomb, were released from the police station.

Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been introduced in the Shamil District of Dagestan. According to the law enforcement agencies, the search is underway in the region to identify members of the armed underground and their accomplices.

The activist Darya Polyudova, who is serving her sentence in a colony-settlement in Novorossiysk, has not been in contact with her relatives for two weeks, her mother said.

The advocate, who represented the interests of Khamzat Bakhaev, a convict in Boris Nemtsov’s murder case, has left Russia for personal security reasons before the consideration of the appeal against the verdict.

Today, a video has been posted on the YouTube showing an interrogation of the Cossack Roman Zabolotniy by militants immediately after his capture. Zabolotniy tried to speak Russian with one of the militants and said that he had "information about weapons."

After being detained at a rally in Krasnodar, Cossack Yevgeny Panchuk, who supported Alexei Navalny, has been sentenced to 20 hours of compulsory community service.

According to participants of the hostilities in Syria, the number of mercenaries from the private military company "Wagner's PMC" killed in September battles may be "much higher" than 12 people whose dead bodies were delivered to Rostov-on-Don on September 28, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports today.