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In Gukovo, picketers are not satisfied with the results of the meeting with the Minister of Energy of the Rostov Region. The protestors are willing to resume their hunger strike interrupted on September 27 if the payments of wage arrears to former miners of the "Kingcoal" company are not renewed.

In Azerbaijan, a court has dismissed the lawsuit filed by journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who demanded from the Baku City Prosecutor's Office to pay compensation for her unreasonable arrest. The defence plans to challenge the court's decision.

The suspected militants, killed in the vicinity of the village of Yanikoy, had recently gone underground and had no combat experience, said a law enforcement source.

Voters are to give their voices for opposition candidates to majoritarian MPs to ensure that the "Georgian Dream" Party does not gain the majority in the Georgian Parliament and does not change the Constitution at its discretion. This was stated by Georgian NGOs.

Russian citizens are accused by an Abkhaz mobile operator of a fraud by using some equipment to transfer phone calls into IP-based networks in order to reduce cost thereof. The verdicts in their cases are expected on October 19.

In 2016, the lists of residents "forbidden to leave Russia" included names of 10,000 residents of Chechnya with debts exceeding 10,000 roubles for utilities, fines, loans, and child support payments.

Two hunger-strikers, Gerey Sadykov and Magomedzakir Nurulvaraev, have been hospitalized; the action is suspended, said Kamil Shakhbulatov.

Power agents have conducted a counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the city of Derbent within the inquiry into cases of extorting tribute from owners of fuelling stations, said a local law enforcement source.

Andrei Vikanov, an advocate of Sergey Khadjikurbanov, who was sentenced in the case of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder, reported that investigators demanded from his client to testify against businessman Boris Berezovsky. According to the advocate, Sergey Khadjikurbanov confessed that he was forced to cooperate with the investigators.

In Sochi, the trial in the case against builder Mardiros Demerchyan is postponed because of the absence of victim Nikolai Krasko, the general director of the "Dauriya Stroi" Company. Court marshals reported on impossibility to find the victim. The defence treated "the absence of the victim as a good reason for closure of the case."

At the trial in the "Nardaran case", the court has listened to the testimonies of residents of the village of Nardaran, sentenced in other criminal cases. They have claimed that during the preliminary investigation, they were beaten and forced to testify against Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the movement "Muslim Unity".

The working group, consisting of rights defenders, NGO activists, journalists and lawyers of Azerbaijan, has released an updated list of the country's political prisoners. It has 139 persons; 94 of them have been recognized as political prisoners; the cases of other 45 are being monitored.

Participants of the rally in Makhachkala have stated that there is no answer from power agents about the whereabouts of their missing relatives-residents of Dagestan; they called on state officials and law enforcers to obey the law, and on the republic's women to unite around the problem of kidnappings and extrajudicial executions.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar has satisfied the investigator's petition to arrest Nikolai Nesterenko, the Ataman of the Cossack unit of Anapa, suspected of a major fraud with a land plot. Nesterenko has challenged his arrest at the Territorial Court.

The explosion on the territory of the Abkhazian TV and Radio Company was an attempted terror act, said Aslan Kobakhiya, the head of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Abkhazia. According to the "Nuzhnaya Gazeta", policemen found photos of building located in central streets of Sukhumi on the person, killed by the explosion.

A participant of counterterrorist operations (CTOs) in Chechnya, field commander of the national militia unit of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (known as DNR), also known under the nickname "Motorola", was killed in Donetsk on October 16.

Zhalaudi Geriev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot", has been prosecuted for his journalistic activities. This was stated by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The men killed in a counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in Dagestani Derbent were involved in terror acts. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

According to the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", the armed clash taking place on October 16 in Derbent during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) has become at least the eighth armed incident in the area during the year of 2016. In total, eight armed clashes killed 16 and wounded other 41 people.

The Armenian nongovernmental organization (NGO) "In the Name of the Law" is going to hold a protest action in front of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) office in Yerevan and demand from Pedro Agramunt, the head of the PACE, to resign, because of disrespect for the Armenian delegation.