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Today, staff members of the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) have failed to get to their office in Moscow, since it appeared to be sealed off. According to Alexander Artemiev, a staff member of the AI, locks at the office are changed, and the electricity is cut off.

The number of signatures under the petition, posted on October 29 on the website "Change.org", proves that the main topic voiced in it - the mass poisoning with drinking water in Makhachkala - is the most important one for residents of Dagestan. During four days, the petition raised more than 26,000 signatures, while other petitions relating to the situation in Dagestan gain much less number of signatures.

Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Chechnya, has been nominated in the category "Journalism" for the "Freedom of Expression Awards 2017" of the British human rights organization "Index on Censorship".

During the past day, 102 people, including 63 children, have been brought to hospitals of Makhachkala and Kaspiysk with signs of acute intestinal infection. This has been reported today by the Dagestani Ministry for Public Health.

29-year-old Islam Kadyrov is appointed the Vice Prime Minister of the Chechen government for cooperation with the security agencies, the law enforcement authorities, and municipalities.

The budget process should take into account all aspects and not only the interests of some regions. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov, Spokesman for the Russian President, when he commented on the dissatisfaction voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov about the fact that the Russian Ministry of Finance had proposed to cut the region's budget for 2017. According to the Independent Institute for Social Policy, with regard to allocation of transfers, Chechnya is in a better position than most Russian regions.

At the trial in the case against Varvara Karaulova, a student of the Moscow State University (MSU), the court has read out her correspondence in social networks. In the posts, one of the key themes was related to construction of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia by court. The defendant has claimed she did not understand the meaning of her words, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Ministry for Refugees' Matters of Georgia refused to grant political asylum to the 31-year-old resident of Grozny Tums Abdurakhmanov, put in Russia on the federal wanted list. This decision was made on October 31.

On October 21, at an explosion of an improvised explosive device (IED), in a wooded area, Vitaly Yaganov, a resident of Nalchik, regarded as missing, was killed, investigators have reported.

Relatives of the missing Shamil Djamalutdinov told the "Caucasian Knot" that his disappearance occurred after his return from vacations from Turkey, when he was put on "prophylactic registration".

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has started the communications on complaints of 25 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) of Azerbaijan, who asked to recognize as illegal the rejections to register the NGOs established by them.

A sitting of the Commission on Harmonization of Interethnic and Interreligious Relations, and Cossack Affairs on the topic "ISIL – a Threat to Mankind" took place at the Public Chamber of the Volgograd Region on 31 October. The pretext of the sitting was a release of the brochure by Sergey Ordzhonikidze "ISIL – Threat to Mankind: Why It Is Necessary to Destroy Terrorism". (ISIL is one of the names of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in the Russian Federation).

The journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov, who is currently in Switzerland, has asked the government of this country for political asylum, said his advocate.

On October 31, the Russia's Central Election Commission (CEC) defined its candidates to be recommended into the new CEC of Dagestan. Ella Pamfilova, the Chair of the federal CEC, offered Eduard Ataev, the coordinator of the independent movement of observers "Golos" (Vote), for inclusion into the Dagestani CEC.

The petition has been sent to the Russian Premier Dmitri Medvedev. As of 6:55 a.m. Moscow time on November 1, 2016, the online petition had been signed by 3698 persons.

Eleven administrative cases have been instituted against the legal entities, which, in the opinion of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) bosses, are guilty of the recent mass poisoning in Makhachkala. A lawsuit is being drafted to liquidate at least one company – the "Mahachkalavodokanal".

Ramzan Kadyrov has criticized the proposal of the Russia's Ministry of Finance (MoF) to cut the 2017 budget of the Chechen Republic. According to his version, the proposal is causing "a lot of questions" and does not satisfy the republic's leadership.

The four persons, detained during the protest action demanding resignation of the Mayor of Makhachkala, have been set free from the police.

Today, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., relatives of missing Dagestani residents held a rally in Makhachkala. The protesters accused the authorities of Dagestan of inaction.

NGO "International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy" demands to recount ballots in some polling stations and to annul the results of the voting at the parliamentary elections at one polling station.