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In London, Kholoud Waleed, a Syrian female journalist and an editor of an underground newspaper "Enab Baladi", has received the Anna Politkovskaya Award. The international NGO "RAW in War", a founder of the Anna Politkovskaya Award, has noted the incredible courage and inspirational works of Kholoud Waleed.

Today, on the ninth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", her son Ilya Politkovsky has stated that he treats the crime as unsolved.

In the Stavropol Territory, after journalists faced impeding when they were preparing a report on one of the quarries, Alexei Pisarev, Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Stavropol Territory, who supervised the operation of those facilities, was dismissed.

Recruitment of young people into the ranks of the "Islamic State" (IS , earlier ISIL) and other terrorist organizations in social networks should be prevented by specially trained professionals. A working team of such specialists will soon appear in Ingushetia. This was announced by the Ingush leader.

On October 6, after the Court in the Rostov Region held a session in the case against Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko, her advocate Ilya Novikov informed journalists that the defence treated the persons questioned on October 6 as false witnesses.

Djamal Razhitkhanov, suspected of aiding and abetting militants, has written a complaint, in which he reported on torture and pressure to waive services of advocates.

The villages of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan do not face the effect of the introduction of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, and all the social facilities are operating as usual. This was reported by local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Investigators accuse Kamaldin Kazimagomedov, Arsen Talibov, and Idayat Mursalov of the murder of hunters Nadir Dadashev and Yamudin Tagirov in the Suleiman-Stalsky District.

On September 29, in a penal colony in the Tambov Region, Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko declared a hunger strike in protest against the courts' decisions to refuse conditional early relief (CER) and commutation of the sentence. This has been reported today by advocate Sergey Loktev.

In the Istra District of the Moscow Region, FSB agents have detained a Russian citizen, suspected of involvement in the grouping led by Shamil Basaev and, according to the secret services, involved in the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995.

In Dagestan, the military training ground "Dalny" (Far) hosts the military live-fire exercises involving more than 2000 military men and about 300 units of weapons and military vehicles. This was reported by the press service of the Southern Military District.

A group of people arrived in Georgia from one of the foreign countries to commit a terror act aimed to kill Bidzina Ivanishvili, the former Prime Minister. This was stated by Irakli Batiashvili, the former Minister of National Security of Georgia.

In Tbilisi, more than 200 people held a rally in front of the house of Bidzina Ivanishvili, the former Prime Minister of Georgia. They were protesting against the court's decision to arrest two activists of the NGO "Free Zone" and a member of the "United National Movement" Party.

This morning, a regime of counterterrorist operation (CTO) has been introduced in the territory of the Karabudakhkent District. This was reported by the spokesman of the operational headquarters of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) in Dagestan.

In Astrakhan, the investigation has been launched into the criminal case on falsification of the election results at the electoral precinct No. 344 of the Soviet District of Astrakhan.

Today, the press service of the US Treasury has announced the inclusion of three Russian citizens in the anti-terror sanctions list. According to the US Treasury, they are Islam Atabiev, well-known under the nickname "al-Shishani", "Abu Jihad" Akhmed Chataev ("One-Armed Akhmed"), and Zaurbek Guchaev ("Abdul Aziz"), the "TASS" reports.

After the mass detention of believers of the Salafi mosque in the village of Novy Kurush of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, eight persons were taken into custody. This was reported by local residents.

Today, opponents of the constitutional reforms have marched to the parliament building, which held hearings concerning the draft amendments to the Constitution. At the parliament building, the police and the demonstrators entered an incident, as a result of which one activist was detained. According to the organizers of the rally, other 17 demonstrators were detained after the protesters broke through the police cordon and partially blocked the traffic in Bagramyan Avenue.

The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the decision of the court of first instance to extend the arrest of Nadezhda Savchenko, a staff member of the Ukrainian armed forces, accused of the killing of Russian journalists, until January 16, 2016.

In the course of the investigation into Boris Nemtsov murder, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has conducted searches and interrogations in the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya, where Ruslan Geremeev and Ruslan Mukhudinov, defendants in the criminal case, used to live, the "Rosbalt" reports.