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The 2014 Andrei Sakharov Freedom Prize has been awarded to all 98 political prisoners of Azerbaijan the decision was made by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC).

Orhan Cemal, a "Forbes" magazine correspondent, and Akhmet Yarlykapov, the Senior Researcher of the Centre for Ethnopolitical Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), express their doubts that the "Imarat Kavkaz", an organization recognized in the Russian Federation as terrorist one, might be involved in the suicide bombing in Grozny.

Family members and advocate of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), sentenced on charges of riots in Ismailly, cannot get information about his whereabouts since September 25.

In the village of Kirovaul of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, unidentified persons fired at law enforcers, who opened fire in response. According to the preliminary information, two law enforcers and one of the attackers were killed.

During the week of September 29-October 5, 2014, at least 24 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 11 persons were killed, and 13 others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The explosion, which occurred in Isaev Avenue in Grozny, has become the first suicide bombing in Chechnya committed this year after the explosion near the building of the Sunzha ROVD (District Interior Division) of Chechnya committed in September 2013.

As a result of the suicide bombing committed in Grozny, ten injured persons are brought to City Hospital No. 9, and doctors assess their condition as stable. In total, the suicide bombing killed five persons and injured 12 others, said the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Two persons killed in the special operation conducted in the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been identified as Zaurbiy Orshedugov and Nurabi Tlepshev, members of the armed underground.

The journalist Sardar Alibeili, convicted and serving his sentence on charge of hooliganism, has asked to remove his name and photo from the list of "prisoners of conscience". He has sent the appropriate appeal to the heads of the media and the opposition leaders.

According to local authorities, this year's Sixth International Festival of Adyg (Circassian) Culture that is now underway in Adygea surpasses all the previous ones by the number of participants and diversity of its programme.

In Dagestan, the closure of the Gimry Tunnel by law enforcers is "selective" in nature. According to local residents, cars of officials of the administrations and even taxis are free to move through the tunnel, which is officially closed, while ambulance cars and cars of ordinary villagers are not allowed to enter the Gimry Tunnel.

Magomednabi Nabiev, the father of Djabrail Nabiev, a resident Khasavyurt, who was kidnapped on October 3, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had submitted his written statement to the GOVD (City Interior Division) Khasavyurt, adding that a criminal case was initiated on the fact of kidnapping; however, the GOVD refused to give any comments.

Some 195,000 Muslim believers took part in celebrating the Eid al-Adha in Moscow and Moscow Region – 130,000 and 65,000, accordingly. In Moscow, most of them have visited today the Cathedral Mosque in Prospekt Mira, where they were addressed with a welcoming speech of Sheikh Ravil Gainutdin, the Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), activists declared the end of protest actions against the increase of public transport fares after the government promised to subsidize, starting next year, the fares for students and socially disadvantaged population.

The Armenian government has allocated 1.5 billion drams, or about 3.7 million US dollars to build flats for residents of Gyumri – victims of the 1988 earthquake, said Narek Sarkisyan, the Minister of Urban Development. The housing waiting list in Gyumri still has about 450 persons out of the initial 3240.

Agents of the regional FSB department have detained Ramil Rizvanov, the head of the Neftekumsk Inter-District Division of the Investigating Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). He is suspected of taking an especially large bribe.

Today, the advocates of the rights defender Leyla Yunus have issued a joint statement asking Azerbaijani authorities to change her freedom restraint measure to home arrest, or to place her into the prison hospital.

In Chechnya, prices for sacrificial animals have increased significantly on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. This was noted by Chechen residents questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Ministry of Transport of the Chechen Republic has concluded a contract for purchasing five special low-floor buses for transportation of wheelchair users. Officials expect that the new vehicles are to make the urban environment more accessible to persons with disabilities. However, residents of the Chechen capital believe that until present, the republic has hardly created any facilities for persons with disabilities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondents report.

In Yerevan, advocates spoke at the trial in the case against participants of the "Millions Mask March". The defenders argued for the innocence of the activists in the incriminated articles of the Penal Code and requested the court to acquit the defendants.