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After the consideration of the case of the Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova was postponed for the second time due to the illness of her advocate, the court decided not to appoint a new date of the session until the sick leave of the advocate is over.

During the dispersal of the rally in Buynaksk, seven deputies of the local City Assembly suffered and lodged their written complaints against policemen to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), FSB and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), said one of the deputies Gasan Malikov.

Being one of the leaders of the "Aydar" battalion, Nadezhda Savchenko was notable for special cruelty, Evgeny Kolomiets, an adviser to the head of the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Lugansk (PRL) and a witness for the prosecution, said at the Donetsk City Court.

Polina Daurkina, a Judge of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, expressed her "dissenting opinion" after approval by the appeal instance of the decision of the lower court on the suit on protection of reputation of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against rights defenders and Murad Amriev, who stated that he had been tortured by policemen.

Special agents detained a Russian citizen, who campaigned in social networks in favour of terrorism, prepared an explosion in an electric train in the Krasnodar Territory and planned to go to Syria to join the "Islamic State" (IS), the Russian FSB reports.

A native of Chechnya, who was granted the refugee status in Poland, is accused Russia of involvement in combat operations in Chechnya in 1995-2003. He managed to convince the court that he has no chance of a fair trial at home.

About 20 schoolchildren from remote villages of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia will receive photo cameras to capture their daily life and thus narrate about their childhood. Best works, to be defined by online voting on the Internet, will be presented at an exhibition in Moscow.

During the week of October 12-18, 2015, at least 8 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, seven persons were killed, and one person was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The "Islamic State" (IS), banned and found a terrorist organization, has declared jihad on Russia. Experts believe that the activities of the IS in the Caucasus will continue; however, the number of terror acts will not increase in the near future.

Since September 22, relatives of Rashid Magomedov, a resident of the Botlikh District, cannot locate him.

All four militants killed in the Khasavyurt District are identified. This was reported by the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). According to investigators, apart from Rasul and Alkhasov Sardarov, Yasim Batraev and Djumart Shikhragimov were also killed in the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO).

The Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan has conducted a detention operation. All the suspects are taken into custody by the court's decision.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the territory of the Tsumada District of Dagestan on October 13, is cancelled.

In three villages in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, where law enforcers carried out a special operation, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime cancelled.

In Russia, the main methods of ideological struggle against the "Islamic State" (IS) should be the open support demonstrated by the authorities to supporters of traditional Islam, the development of Islamic education, and the anti-extremist propaganda in educational institutions. These proposals are voiced by the authors of the report "Islamic State" (IS): nature and confrontation" from the Caucasian Geopolitical Club.

A Russian FSB fighter was wounded in the course of the armed clash with four members of the "Khasavyurt" grouping of militants, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

Rasul and Alkhas Sardarov, wanted on suspicion of killing the Imam of the mosque in the village of Novy Kurush in Dagestan, are identified among four men, killed in the special operation in Dagestan.

In the course of the special operation ongoing in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, law enforcers killed four suspected members of the armed underground.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Akushinsky District has sent to the court the criminal case against M. Isaev, a local resident, accused of providing shelter and food to a leader of an illegal armed formation (IAF). Besides, Isaev is accused of illegal possession of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime is introduced in three villages of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan and on the terrain between the villages. Law enforcers are searching for militants.