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During the week of October 5-11, 2015, at least 12 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, eight persons were killed, and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the course of the special operation held in the Dagestani village of Gimry, Ruslan Ibragimov, Akhmed Abdurakhmanov, and Shamil Shamilov, three members of a local grouping of militants, were killed. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Makhachkala holds the festivities to celebrate the 158th anniversary of the city. The festivities include concerts, exhibitions, and sport events.

A new ski piste in the area of "Gara-Bashi"-"Mir" has been built in the course of the preparation for the new winter ski season on Mount Elbrus.

Residents of the village of Kumli of the Nogai District of Dagestan have held a rally with the demand to stop the criminal proceedings against local resident Ruslan Nasyrov, who was detained by law enforcers.

The regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced five days ago in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan has been cancelled this evening. Till present, law enforcers have not yet reported on the results of the operation.

An agent of the owner of the team "Toro Rosso", which driver has been involved in the today's accident, criticizes the safety system on the Sochi Autodrom track. According to Advisor to the President of the Russian Automobile Federation, diesel fuel was spilled on the track prior to the accident, and that fact could affect the safety of the races.

In Sochi, the expenses for the maintenance of the facilities built for the 2014 Olympic Games are mainly born by the budgets of the city and the region, and the expenses spend for the maintenance still exceed the revenues generated from their operation. This opinion was expressed by experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

On the whole day of October 9, despite the cloudy weather, people were carrying candles, flowers, and posters to the place of the Boris Nemtsov's murder on Big Moskvoretsky Bridge, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports. At the curb, people installed a sign reading: "Nemtsov's Bridge" and dozens of the politician's photos. Next to many of the portraits, people placed posters with quotes from Boris Nemtsov's speeches.

In Azerbaijan, the practice of imprisonment of human rights defenders and public activists on false charges is widespread, and all political prisoners in the country deserve awards for protection of human rights. This was declared by Intigam Aliev, the head of the organization "Legal Education Society", in connection with his award of the International Bar Association (IBA).

A FSB Special Forces fighter was killed in the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Dagestani village of Gimry. He was wounded in a firefight with suspected militants and later died.

Today, at 6:40 a.m., a regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been introduced in the Dagestani village of Gimry. Law enforcers blocked the armed men in a house. Three suspected militants, blocked in the house in the village, were killed as a result of the armed clash, the press centre of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

In Baku, the court has scheduled the consideration of the appeal against the sentence to human rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus for October 12. The Azerbaijani authorities should free the Yunus spouses from charges and release them. This was declared by the statement made by the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW).

In Dagestan, advocates of Djamal Razhitkhanov, a local resident, detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting members of the armed underground, have filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office about the pressure on the defendant to waive their services. On October 9, the complaint was addressed to Ramazan Shakhnavazov, Prosecutor of Dagestan.

Today, in Moscow, the jury of the literary prize "Russian Booker" has announced the short list of the finalists for the 2015 award for best novel in Russian, which included the Alisa Ganieva's book on modern Dagestan "Bride and Groom".

Investigating authorities are trying to give Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh, members of the UNA-UNSO, accused in Chechnya, most negative image for the emotional impact on the judge and the jury, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

The transfer of the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko to Ukraine will be "a humane and reasonable decision", Ella Pamfilova, the Russian Ombudsperson, said today.

Law enforcement bodies suspect Murtazaliev, a resident of Dagestan, of involvement in warfare in Syria.

On October 9, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) finished considering the complaint lodged by Asif Yusifli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), convicted on charges of fraud and document forgery. The CoA upheld the verdict. Yusifli’s advocates intend to file an appeal to the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

During the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Grozny, power agents did not evacuate the children of the kindergarten, located next to the blocked nine-storey building, said parents of the pre-schoolers.