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In Kabardino-Balkaria, activists of the NGO "Ochag" (Hearth) have launched a charity event to sell the catalogue "Items of Adyg culture in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography." The raised funds are to be directed for creation of the Centre for adaptation of repatriates, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On October 28, the National Assembly of Azerbaijan entitled law enforcers with additional powers in the area of special operations against religious extremists. The amendments have already caused criticism of civil society activists.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has supported Alexander Zaldostanov, also known as "The Surgeon", the leader of the Russian "Night Wolves" bikers' club, who refused to apologize for his remarks voiced towards Konstantin Raikin, the director of the "Satiricon" Theatre. Meanwhile, Dmitry Peskov, Spokesman for the Russian President, has called on the biker to apologize to Konstantin Raikin.

In Buynaksk, the hunger strike has been stopped in connection with the launch of the investigation into the violations committed at the elections in Buynaksk. This was reported by one of the organizers of the protest action.

Today, Abubakar Udziev, called by law enforcers the leader of the militants from the Dagestan village of Gubden and announced killed on October 12, has been mentioned among the persons wanted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Kabardino-Balkaria. The MIA has promised to pay a reward for the information that would help detain him.

Today, in Gukovo, in front of the office of the bankrupt "Kingcoal" company, activists have held another action of a series of planned pickets, at which about 100 former workers of the company demanded to pay them 300 million roubles of wage arrears and give them 7000 tonnes of coal allowance for 2014-2016, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Anatoly Boltykhov, a coordinator of the "International Human Rights Alliance", argues that today, he and his wife have been invited to the police station, and during their absence, unidentified persons gained access to their apartment. Anatoly Boltykhov associates the incident with the preparation of the "Russian March", in which organization he is involved.

The lists of people, recognized by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" as political prisoners, include 13 residents of the south of Russia and four other persons sentenced in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and the Southern Federal District (SFD). In total, those lists include 102 people.

The National Assembly of Azerbaijan has introduced the amendments to the Criminal Code of the country, establishing new types of responsibility for religious extremism and violation of the Law "On freedom of religion".

Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya has reported that the MIA and the FSB will pay rewards of three-five million roubles for information about each of the nine militant leaders in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has introduced in the republic a position of the Vice Prime Minister for cooperation with the security agencies, law enforcement agencies and local authorities. Till present, no official has been appointed for the position.

Residents of the village of Shushiya, who have earlier dug up the road in protest against the delay in the allocation of land plots to them, have restored the road.

At the trial in the case of an attempt to create a caliphate in Kabardino-Balkaria, Inna Urchukova, a prosecution witness, said she was not aware of the defendants' relationship with the armed underground. The prosecution witness has retracted her testimony given during the preliminary investigation.

On October 27, the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia started the next court hearing in the case against female activists of the "Voice of Beslan" with viewing of a video record of the protest action of September 1, 2016, provided by the Department for the Pravoberezhny District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

lyal Djatdoev, a 53-year-old resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), detained on suspicion of killing Judge Ruslan Botashev, called the judge's decision to reduce his pension to be the motive for the murder, investigators report.

The Ministry has explained today that the demand of its boss to provide information about the accounts of the employees of its subordinate mass media was issued with the aim to find active Internet users among journalists and authorize them to run official pages in social networks.

Khaiser Djemilev has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg Court about Russia and Ukraine, his advocate Nikolai Polozov said today.

The Amnesty International (AI), a human rights organization, has urged Russian authorities to investigate the statements of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh (also written as Stanislaw Klykh and Mykola Karpyuk), citizens of Ukraine, convicted in Russia, about use of torture to them during the investigation.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO), cancelled today in the Magaramkent District of Dagestan, was preceded by twelve other CTOs, announced in Southern Dagestan since the start of 2016. Five of them were conducted in the Magaramkent District.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the appeal filed by Azerbaijani oppositionist Aidyn Shukyurov about violation of his rights during the parliamentary elections held in 2010. The Strasbourg Court has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay Aidyn Shukyurov compensation in the total amount of 11,000 euro.