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The decision of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk City Court to recognize as extremist material of the book "Prayer (dua) to Allah: its meaning and place in Islam" have been challenged by the Russian Council of Muftis, one of the reviewers of the book "Prayer to Allah", and other persons. In this regard, according to the City Court, the appeal filed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has not been sent for the consideration to the Sakhalin Regional Court.

On October 3, about 150 people held a protest action directed against Mayor of Taganrog Vladimir Prasolov and his team. According to organizers of the protest actions, members of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party, the petition with the demand for the Mayor's resignation was signed by more than one thousand city residents.

During the week of September 28-October 4, 2015, one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has scheduled the consideration of the appeal against the sentence of journalist Parviz Gashimli for October 27. The defence intends to achieve full acquittal of the journalist, who is supported by the Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan and several members of the Parliament.

Employees of the "Akhtuba ATP" (auto transport company) have stopped their hunger strike after the citywide rally and meeting. The participants of the action have put forward the demands to prevent the bankruptcy of the enterprise and create the conditions for its active operation.

After the believers of the mosque, located in the area of the Makhachkala garden and dacha community "Palmyra", had been brought to the police station, all of them were registered at the police. According to mosque-goers, they are dissatisfied with the close attention and pressure from law enforcers, and a lot of Muslims are going to leave Dagestan because of the law enforcers' actions.

Today, Dagestani leader Ramazan Abdulatipov has announced that Malik Bagliev, Minister of Labour and Social Development of the Republic of Dagestan, will be appointed the Mayor of Derbent in the coming days.

In Armenia, the Yazidis, who arrived from Iraq and who were granted refugee status, faced the problem of integration. Participants of the roundtable "Opportunities of granting asylum to Yazidi refugees", held in Yerevan on September 30, have expressed the hope that the Armenian government will provide assistance to Yazidi refugees.

Zagra Magomedrasulova, a resident of Dagestani Kizilyurt, detained on October 2, is being kept at the GOVD (City Interior Division). The police have not confirmed the information.

Today, in Akhtubinsk, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has held a rally demanding to maintain the municipal enterprise "Akhtuba ATP" (auto transport company). Besides, the rally also supported the employees of the "Akhtuba ATP" who had declared a hunger strike.

Law enforcers carried out mass detentions of young people after the prayer in the mosque, located in the area of the Makhachkala garden and dacha community "Palmyra". This was reported by eyewitnesses.

Staff members of public organizations and political parties, operating in Sochi, held a two-hour action with the slogan "Against fraud at the elections to the City Assembly".

A unit of militants in Syria, known as "Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar" and consisting largely of natives of Northern Caucasus, has joined the grouping "Jabhet al-Nusra" (The Victory Front), which is fighting both against the government forces and against the "Islamic State" (IS) in Syria.

Today, in Azerbaijan, the Narimanov District Court has pronounced the decision to arrest Mamed Ibragim, Adviser to the Chair of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was detained after a conflict with Mikail Guliev, a former member of the PFPA.

On October 2, the anti-terror exercises of the law enforcement bodies were held in the Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya. On September 30, the similar anti-terror exercises were held in the city of Grozny, in the territory of the Grozny-City complex, a system of high-rise buildings, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Shagid Gubashev, a defendant in the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, has not retracted his earlier testimony. This was reported by his advocate. Thus, Shagid Gubashev has become the only defendant in the case, who did not retract his confession.

In the Republic of Adygea, residents of the village of Blechepsin have appealed to human rights defenders with a request for help in the quarrel with the regional authorities: according to the villagers, the authorities prevent full payment of compensation to victims of the flooding of May 2014.

According to relatives of Zagra Magomedrasulova, a resident of Kizilyurt, detained on October 2, they cannot reveal her whereabouts. The police have reported that Zagra Magomedrasulova was never brought to a police station.

The Adler District Court of Sochi has dismissed for the third time the complaint filed by the Saveliev family members, who see the police's failure to act in the refusal to check the arguments of the complaint stating that the Saveliev family members fell victim to corruption and fraud.

Today, Freedom Square in Yerevan has hosted a sanctioned rally of opponents of the constitutional reforms. The initiative group "You won't deceive us!", which organized the action, called on the Armenian authorities to abandon the idea to carry out the constitutional reforms in the country.