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Today, about 50 women have gathered to a protest action in Khasavyurt; they held photos of their missing relatives, the "Chernovik" weekly reports.

During talks with the militants in Gazi-Yurt, mother of the woman, who was in the blocked house, felt bad; and she is still in the intensive care unit, said an Ingush official.

The three men, killed in special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, were involved in plotting a terror act to be committed in one of the places of mass stay of people on the anniversary of the attack on Nalchik. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

After her detention at the border between Dagestan and Chechnya, advocate Elena Denisenko has appealed to the Bar Association for the KrasnodarTerritory and the Prosecutor's Office with a request to protect her right to freedom of movement. According to Elena Denisenko, her detention is connected with her protection of a person accused of organization of terrorist activities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Law enforcers demanded from relatives of Gashim Uzdanov, Islam Magomedov, and Pakhrudin Makhaev, who disappeared in Dagestan, to refuse holding protest actions and threatened them with administrative arrest in case of their disobedience. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a relative of one of the disappeared men.

On October 13, in the Chegem District, three persons were killed, including the leader of the criminal grouping, which members shelled and killed two policemen in the town of Prokhladny. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

On October 13, the Public Alliance "Azerbaijan without political prisoners" released a preliminary report on the results of monitoring of the investigation into trial in the "Nardaran case". This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Oktai Gyulalyev, the head of the human rights organization.

According to a law enforcement source, today, "four militants have been killed" in the village of Yanikoi, Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). According to preliminary information, these were the militants, wanted for the execution of policemen in the city of Prtokhladny, the "Life" reports, citing its law enforcement source.

Eight participants of the hunger strike, who demand to cancel election outcomes in Buynaksk, state the worsening of their health condition and call doctors every day, but have no intention to stop their protest action.

Olga Mikhailova, a representative of the affected party, said that Anzor Gubashev, one of the figurants in the Boris Nemtsov's murder case, used insulting words against Boris in his testimony; no detective would have dictated such words.

According to organizers, 120 miners gathered today in the town of Gukovo, Rostov Region at the office of the "Kingcoal", a former coal company. Within a week, former employees received about 2 million roubles of salary debts; then, the payments stopped.

The actions of blood donation were held in 15 mosques of Azerbaijan on the mourning Ashura Day; a total of 4141 Shiite Muslim took part in them. The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Caucasus has treated the blood donation as more appropriate form of remembrance on the Ashura Day than traditional rituals of symbolic self-torture.

After a special operation in the Gudermes District of Chechnya, where on October 9 eight persons were killed, relatives of Gashim Uzdanov and Islam Magomedov, who had disappeared in Dagestan, went to Chechnya for identification of the bodies. However, it turned out that the bodies had not been identified yet; and relatives returned home empty-handed.

Today, at the trial, Anzor Gubashev, one of the defendants, accused of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, has claimed that during interrogation, law enforcers took all his clothes off, beat him and tortured him with electric current.

In Moscow, the law enforcement authorities are engaged in considering several versions of an attack on a daughter of Fyodor Emelianenko. However, law enforcers do not associate the attack of the girl with the fact that her father criticized the children's MMA fights in Grozny, involving sons of Ramzan Kadyrov. This was reported by a source from the Moscow Police.

On October 12, 70 residents of the Chechen Republic got DNA passports. The new documents will help to establish the blood relationship with people disappeared during Chechen military campaigns in case of discovery of their remains.

On October 12, in Vladivostok, Bagama Nikabagamaev, world champion in pankration, a native of Dagestan, was found by the court guilty of extortion and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment and a fine.

At trial in the case against Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), a student of the Moscow State University (MSU), the court has questioned three witnesses for the prosecution. They have reported how, together with the defendant, they were crossing the Turkish-Syrian border, where they were detained, reports the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Tatiana Psomiadi, an advocate of Arthur Sunshev, a son of a judge of the Nalchik City Court, insists on institution of criminal proceedings against the policemen, who detained her client. The advocate claims that her client was beaten by the policemen.

The scandal around the children's fights in Chechnya had no effect on the interaction between Ramzan Kadyrov and the Kremlin, believes journalist Orkhan Djemal. Meanwhile, according to Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Project Director for Russia and Northern Caucasus of the International Crisis Group (ICG), the scandal may have a negative impact on the Ramzan Kadyrov's image among athletes.