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The actions of blood donation were held in 15 mosques of Azerbaijan on the mourning Ashura Day; a total of 4141 Shiite Muslim took part in them. The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Caucasus has treated the blood donation as more appropriate form of remembrance on the Ashura Day than traditional rituals of symbolic self-torture.

After a special operation in the Gudermes District of Chechnya, where on October 9 eight persons were killed, relatives of Gashim Uzdanov and Islam Magomedov, who had disappeared in Dagestan, went to Chechnya for identification of the bodies. However, it turned out that the bodies had not been identified yet; and relatives returned home empty-handed.

Today, at the trial, Anzor Gubashev, one of the defendants, accused of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, has claimed that during interrogation, law enforcers took all his clothes off, beat him and tortured him with electric current.

In Moscow, the law enforcement authorities are engaged in considering several versions of an attack on a daughter of Fyodor Emelianenko. However, law enforcers do not associate the attack of the girl with the fact that her father criticized the children's MMA fights in Grozny, involving sons of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by a source from the Moscow Police.

On October 12, 70 residents of the Chechen Republic got DNA passports. The new documents will help to establish the blood relationship with people disappeared during Chechen military campaigns in case of discovery of their remains.

On October 12, in Vladivostok, Bagama Nikabagamaev, world champion in pankration, a native of Dagestan, was found by the court guilty of extortion and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment and a fine.

At trial in the case against Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), a student of the Moscow State University (MSU), the court has questioned three witnesses for the prosecution. They have reported how, together with the defendant, they were crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, where they were detained, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Tatiana Psomiadi, an advocate of Arthur Sunshev, a son of a judge of the Nalchik City Court, insists on institution of criminal proceedings against the policemen, who detained her client. The advocate claims that her client was beaten by the policemen.

The scandal around the children's fights in Chechnya had no effect on the interaction between Ramzan Kadyrov and the Kremlin, believes journalist Orkhan Djemal. Meanwhile, according to Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Project Director for Russia and Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICG), the scandal may have a negative impact on the Ramzan Kadyrov's image among athletes.

In Moscow, a daughter of a well-known MMA fighter, who criticized the children's MMA fights in Chechnya, was hospitalized after an attack on her. This was reported by the "Moskovsky Komsomolets". On her Twitter page, the author of the article posted by the "Moskovsky Komsomolets" reported that the daughter of Fyodor Emelianenko was attacked.

Abubakar Udziev, killed today in Gubden, was the leader of the grouping involved in killings of soldiers and civilians in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Members of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party were beaten by supporters of the "Georgian Dream" Party. This was reported by members of the "UNM" Party. According to them, a coordinator and a member of the election commission of the "UNM" Party were beaten in the district of Tetritskaro.

Khatai Nabiev, an activist of the Sumgait city branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) is subjected to a 30-day administrative arrest on the charge of disobeying the police. His party colleagues believe that the young man is being persecuted for his opposition activities.

In the Dagestani village of Gubden, three militants were killed in a blocked house. One of the suspects was on the federal wanted list, reports a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, the Moscow District Military Court has refused to support the motion filed by an advocate of Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova) to change the pre-trial restriction measure against his client.

Law enforcers have identified the four men suspected of an attack on policemen in the town of Prokhladny.

Chief Imam of the Cathedral Mosque of Moscow has offered Shiites to hold the events on the occasion of Day of Ashura on October 12 in other places rather than at the Cathedral Mosque.

The escalation of the armed conflict in four regions of Northern Caucasus may be connected both with strengthening of the armed underground and with the law enforcers' desire to demonstrate the efficiency of the National Guard. This opinion was voiced by experts on the Caucasus, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Eight members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) and the "Yabloko" Party, who demand to cancel the election outcomes in Buynaksk, have announced their intention to go to court.

A cassation complaint has been lodged to the Astrakhan Regional Court by Igor Stenin, the leader of the nationalist movement "Russians of Astrakhan". He asserts in his complaint that the guilty verdict against him on charges of inciting extremism had been passed on the basis of falsified evidence.