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The chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Dagestan has reported on sending the materials on electoral violations to the Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by protestors on hunger strike in Buynaksk. The health state of the hunger-strikers deteriorates; however, they intend to continue their protest action.

During the week of October 10-16, 2016, at least 12 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 11 were killed, and one person was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The bosses of the Izberbash Radio Factory owe over 20 million roubles to their workers, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Dagestan and called on the bosses to immediately find money to pay the wage and tax debts.

Mothers with many children have demanded from Andrei Bocharov, Governor of the Volgograd Region, to solve the problem of delayed payments of child benefits. Besides, they began collecting signatures under the online petition posted on the website "Change.org".

In Karachay-Cherkessia, participants of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference "Nogai people: 21st century: from the origins to the future" have proposed to create the Centre for Study of Nogai Culture at the Karachay-Cherkessian State University (KChSU) and establish the Council of the heads of the residential settlements with compact residence of Nogai people.

The "Initiative of Development for Armenia" (IDeA) Foundation has allocated 250,000 US dollars to Armenians in Syria and began raising funds for help programmes both to those who stay in Syria, and to those, who want to leave the country or have already done so.

The power agents Askhat Laipanov and Kazbek Batchaev are innocent of the death of Murat Borlakov, a resident of the Karachay-CherkessianRepublic (KChR), their advocates assert. They treat the testimonies of the main witness as contradictory and unreliable; however, the aggrieved party does not agree.

The bomb-disposal experts, who came to inspect the interior of the bus en route from Makhachkala, did not find any explosives.

On October 14, Yunus Yasiev, who earlier served as a magistrate judge in Khasavyurt, opened fire at four men, who approached his house, wounding two of them, law enforcement sources have reported, one of them adding that the men came to Yasiev "on the issue of his debts."

The abolition of direct elections has limited the electoral rights of citizens and is aimed at the preservation of a family-clan power system in Adygea. This opinion was voiced by authors of the petition with the demand to return the nationwide election of the leader of the republic.

Since May, Valentina Trostyanskaya, a co-author of the panorama project "Battle of Stalingrad", has to stay in a dilapidated apartment, which was flooded after a communal accident, when a pipe burst. The pensioner requests to carry out a complete repair of her apartment; however, the management company has organized only whitewashing of the walls and the ceiling. Neighbours of Valentina Trostyanskaya also suffering damage from the accident, is now suing the company.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has accused Omar Galaev, a local resident, of disseminating on the Internet video records shot after Timur Mutsuraev's songs, included in the list of extremist materials.

Nazran investigators suspect a policeman of robbing a man. The court has ruled to place the suspect into custody.

The French Senate has adopted a draft bill criminalizing the denial of all crimes against humanity, including the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

In Buynaksk, an ambulance was called for protestors on hunger strike. The hunger-strikers were put on a drip; however, they refused hospitalization. The protestors also claim attempts to discredit them.

Relatives of missing residents of Dagestan have no intent to stop their protests until they receive information about the fate of their missing relatives. The women-participants of the rally in Khasavyurt have called on all women of the Caucasus to unite against kidnappings and extrajudicial executions of their children and husbands.

The investigation of criminal cases initiated against businessmen Akhmed and Magomed Bilalov, suspected of abuse of power during the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi, continues, said the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

Today, the Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (known as GUBOP) has issued a warning to five oppositional political and public figures for their criticism addressed to the authorities and law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan, related, among other things, to the investigation of the so-called "Nardaran case".

Today, about 50 women have gathered to a protest action in Khasavyurt; they held photos of their missing relatives, the "Chernovik" weekly reports.

During talks with the militants in Gazi-Yurt, mother of the woman, who was in the blocked house, felt bad; and she is still in the intensive care unit, said an Ingush official.