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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.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan has confirmed a claim of an eyewitness that staff members of the "E" Centre were involved in a conflict with inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (known as PPS) in Makhachkala.

During the week of October 2-8, 2017, seven persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, six were killed and another was injured. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the capital of Dagestan, policemen opened fire as a result of a conflict with staff members of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE). This was reported on October 8 by an eyewitness of the incident.

On October 7, the Tbilisoba Festival (Tbilisi City Day) was celebrated in the Moscow Hermitage Garden for the seventh time, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Ingushetia, Sultan Belkhoroev, an elder of the religious concept (Wird) for followers of Batal-Khadji Belkhoroev, died after a short illness and was buried.

In the city of Telavi, a man attacked an office of the "European Georgia" Party and threatened to use weapons. After his detention, it turned out that his pistol was a model of combat weapon.

Today, Dmitry Titkov's advocate managed to release the activist from the police, where Titkov was brought in the previous evening from his solo picket in support of Alexei Navalny. The activist said that he had spent 16 hours in the dungeon (punishment cell) without food, water and chance to go to the toilet.

The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has treated the arrests of its activists, detained on the eve of the rally held in Baku on October 7, as politically motivated.

Power agents planted drugs on Dinmagomed Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, and demanded to confess of keeping them, threatening to blow up the family's house, his father said. The court ruled to arrest Magomedov.

Since April 2017, they managed to raise 300,000 euros to evacuate gays from Chechnya and to render psychological aid to them, the Russian LGBT Network reports.