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For his refusal to resign, Takhir Murdalov, the Acting Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic, was beaten up by Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the local Parliament, the "Kavkaz.Realii" (Realities of the Caucasus) reports; the information was confirmed by sources of the "Novaya Gazeta".

A solo picket was held by Atsamaz Khadikov, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

On October 7, Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP and Ramzan Kadyrov's cousin, has deleted a record in social networks with unflattering remarks against Fyodor Emelianenko, who had earlier condemned children fights organized in Grozny.

Valentina Cherevatenko, the head of the human rights organization "Women of the Don", who received Anna Politkovskaya Award on the 10th anniversary of the journalist's murder, told the "Caucasian Knot" that the work of her organization is largely associated with Anna's activities.

Today, in Moscow, the performance "A journalist. Whole life in a second", based on interviews and publications of Yuri Schekochikhin and Anna Politkovskaya, correspondents of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", has completed in discussion held in the format of "open mike".

The participants of the action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, the slain journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", have brought to the monument of Lermontov in Moscow puppets in black bags, symbolizing six journalists assassinated in Russia, namely: Anna Politkovskaya, Mikhail Beketov, Magomed Evloev, Anastasia Baburova, Natalia Estemirova and Gadjimurad Kamalov, and read out fragments of journalists' writings.

Zamrat Shevkhuzhev, the father of a 10-year-old fighter from Sochi, says that his son feels well after the fighting tournament in Grozny.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the petition lodged by Khadija Ismayilova and asking to remove illegal entrepreneurship from her accusations. Her defence now intends to appeal against the dismissal at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

Today, in Dagestan, residents of the village of Shushiya of the Novolaksky District have continued their protest action with the demand to return their land plots, allocated to them after their resettlement.

The murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya cannot be treated as solved, unless the customer of the murder is identified. This was reported by Sergey Sokolov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". He has also noted that sooner or later, the newspaper will report the name of the customer of the journalist's murder.

The Association of Peasant Farms and Agricultural Cooperatives (known as the ACCOR) is collecting signatures of farmers of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the major river) to the appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which the actions of the organizers of the "tractor march" are treated as an attempt to defend their mercantile interests.

The international NGO "RAW in War" has awarded Valentina Cherevatenko, the chair of the organization "Women of the Don", the Anna Politkovskaya Award for support of victims of armed conflicts.

The criticism by the famous fighter Fyodor Emelianenko of children fights organized in Grozny provoked a harsh reaction of Ramzan Kadyrov and his relative Adam Delimkhanov, a Stat Duma MP, who demanded apologies from Fyodor. Emelianenko will not apologize to Kadyrov, Stanislav Belkovsky, a political consultant, is sure. Users of social networks support Emelianenko.

In the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in Nazran and the village of Gazi-Yurt, six militants were killed, including a member of the terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in Russia. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The two persons killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the village of Gazi-Yurt, in Ingushetia, were spouses, a law enforcement source has reported.

In Georgia, during the pre-election period, the online media started to publish more critical messages with positive assessment of the activities of the "Georgian Dream" Party. This information was released by NGO "Civic Development Institute" (CDI) and the "Charter of Journalistic Ethics".

Today, October 7, marks the tenth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". The customer of the murder has not yet been identified, and he enjoys its impunity against the background of the authorities' reluctance to solve the crime. This opinion was expressed by relative of Anna Politkovskaya and staff members of the "Novaya Gazeta".

In Grozny, no law was violated while organizing children's performance fights. This was declared by Khamzat Khirakhmatov, Ombudsman for Children in Chechnya. His opinion was challenged in absentia by Anna Kuznetsova, Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights. She noted that "the fights were held as performance, but children in fact stroke each other."

Seven residents of Khasavyurt, four residents of Kaspiysk, and a native of Dagestan, who came from abroad to visit his relatives in Makhachkala, were kidnapped in the period from September 19 to October 4. These are the results of the calculations run by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Svetlana Isaeva, the leader of the organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", who stopped answering calls to her mobile phone on her way to the Rostov Region, has contacted her colleagues. At present, she is in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by Yuri Blokhin, Deputy Chairman of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) for the Rostov Region.