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In Karachay-Cherkessia, Ruslan Botashev, the acting chairman of the Malokarachay District Court, was shot dead in his own car in the village of Pervomaiskoe, reports the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Buynaksk, two persons continue their hunger strike with the demand to cancel the results of the elections to the People's Assembly of Dagestan. The rest hunger-strikers had to stop their protest action because of deterioration of their health state. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Kamil Shakhbulatov, the chief of the Buynaksk branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and a former participant of the hunger strike.

This morning, law enforcers have lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the Dagestani village of Tagirkent-Kazmalyar of the Magaramkent District on October 26.

On October 20, the Dagestani Ministry of Press and Information sent to its all subordinated public institutions a resolution issued by Burliyat Tokbolatova with request to directors of the republic's state-run media to provide information about accounts of employees on the Internet.

Mothers of young men disappeared in Dagestan have founded the public movement "The Mother's Heart". According to members of the new movement, in Dagestan, disappearances are not investigated properly, and many of the incidents may involve the law enforcement bodies.

The village of Tagirkent-Kazmalyar, Magaramkent District, has been put under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, the Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) has reported today. According to a Dagestani law enforcement source, in the course of the CTO, power agents entered a shootout with some persons, who had opened fire on them from a blocked house.

The regional public organization for promoting the protection of victims of the "Nord-Ost" terror act has held a commemorative action in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre on the 14th anniversary of the terror acts; the event was attended by about 300 people.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of South Ossetia holds an inquiry into the theft of money allocated for repairs of the apartment building No. 118 inHeroes Street in Tskhinvali. The repair epic lasts for eight years, the tenants of the luckless house told the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the sentence to two citizens of Ukraine, Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, convicted for taking part in the first Chechen war on the side of the militants.

Today, the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has started to consider an appeal filed against the verdict pronounced in the criminal case against Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, accused of involvement in the first Chechen war on the side of the militants. The court session was attended by Nadezhda Savchenko, a deputy of the Ukrainian Rada, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. She expressed her support for the sentenced Ukrainian citizens.

The Prosecutor's Office has not found any confirmation of the information about the practice of female circumcision in Dagestan. Diana Gurtskaya, a member of the Public Chamber, has announced her intention to appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to initiate the repeated prosecutors' inspection.

Despite the objection of public prosecutor, the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has agreed with the arguments of defenders of Ukrainian citizens Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh against special court ruling pronounced by the Supreme Court (SC) of the ChechenRepublic on violations of the law by advocates Dubrovina and Itslaev.

The court has sentenced Rakhman Bagbekov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, to 15 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony for the fact that he, according to the FSB Department, was trained for mine hardware at a training camp of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation by the court.

On October 25, in Makhachkala, the "Nadezhda" (Hope) Foundation engaged in providing assistance to the poor, which activities were disrupted after a search in its office, resumed its operation. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" by Timur Gadjizharaev, the leader of the "Nadezhda" Foundation.

The sentence pronounced against activist Giyas Ibragimov is based on the falsified charge, and it demonstrates the authorities' fear of any kind of dissent. This was stated by the human rights organization "Freedom House".

No threats from employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) were addressed to the participants of the "tractor march", said the Kuban farmers, refuting the information that Chechen power agents had forced them to abandon their protest actions.

Today, the North-Ossetian Supreme Court has held another session on the complaint of activists of the "Voice of Beslan". The court has ruled to mitigate the punishment of Zhanna Tsirikhova, a participant of the action in Beslan, by reducing the fine imposed on her, since she was just a participant, not an organizer of the action.

The police of Thuringia have failed to receive arrest warrants for 14 natives of Chechnya, detained today on suspicion of financing terrorist organizations; they were all released from the police station.

A court in Azerbaijan has sentenced the activist Giyas Ibragimov to 10 years in prison on charges of illegal drug dealing.

Today, Varvara Karaulova said at the court session that her marriage by means of the Skype to a militant, who was then in the territory of Syria, was concluded in retaliation to the alleged recruiter Airat Samatov.