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Leyla Chemurzieva, who has been wounded during a special operation in Nazran, is suspected of aiding and abetting the killed militants Makhauri and Vedzizhev. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies. According to the source, the woman is in hospital.

In the Astrakhan Region, according to investigators, four men opened fire on law enforcers when trying to escape in a boat during the illegal fishing.

About 100 relatives and neighbours of a resident of Vladikavkaz, who died in the course of the interrogation at the police station, demanded to punish the persons responsible for his death. Arthur Akhmetkhanov, Minister of the Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia, has reported on the transfer of the criminal case to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Abdulvakhid Edilgeriev, an administrator of the website "Kavkaz-Centre" recognized by the court as extremist, and a relative of Movladi Udugov, one of the ideologues of the Chechen separatism, was shot and killed not far from his house in Turkey. This was reported by a source from the security services.

In the central marketplace of Grozny "Berkat" power agents conducted a mass detention of young men with beards and shaved moustaches, eyewitnesses assert. According to their stories, the young men were loaded into several buses and taken away to some unknown place. A police source told about preventive measures.

The mother of Leyla Chemurzieva, a woman, wounded in a special operation in Nazran, has appealed to the Ingush authorities, the Prosecutor's Office, and human rights defenders. She calls on to prevent the violation of the rights of her daughter, suspected of relationships with the killed leaders of the armed underground.

According to the monitoring conducted by the "Institute for Democratic Initiatives" (IDI), last Sunday, the voter turnout at the parliamentary elections was about 25%. Oppositional candidates state massive falsifications at the elections. According to the authorities, the elections passed in the democratic atmosphere.

During the week of October 26 to November 1, 2015, seven persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, six persons were killed and one more 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.

During a counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Nazran, Leyla Chemurzieva, who, according to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), was linked with a militants' grouping acting in the territory of Ingushetia, was wounded. A ready-to-use improvised explosive device (IED) was found the casualties' car.

In June this year, Beslan Makhauri and Ilyas Vedzizhev, killed in Nazran, swore to the "Islamic State" (IS), says the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

Today, on the eve of parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, no serious violations of electoral legislation has been fixed.

The casualties of the shootout have been identified as Beslan Makhauri, the leader of militants of the Sunzha District, and Ilyas Vedzizhev, the leader of the "Nazran" grouping, said a law enforcement source.

The picket in defence of the Article 31 of the Russian Constitution in Volgograd voiced out slogans demanding to release political prisoners and ensure turnover of power.

The commission that refused to grant the condition early relief (CER) to Volodya Avetisyan, a Karabakh War veteran, will receive a request from the office of Armenian Ombudsperson as to the reasons for such decision. Avetisyan continues his hunger strike in prison; and so far, he has no health problems, said Eranui Tumanyan, the Deputy Ombudsperson.

A mass detention of natives of Chechnya, who intended to leave for Syria, was undertaken by power agents on October 29, a Chechen law enforcement source told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, in total, 17 persons were detained.

Today, residents of Ingushetia and North Ossetia have brought flowers to the monument to victims of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict of 1992. Till present, thousands of force migrants are still unable to return to their houses in Vladikavkaz and in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.

In Georgia, the situation is tense; however, it is not too tense for the start of riots. This opinion was expressed by the Georgian political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They believe that the Georgian government and opposition have no resources for the increase of the tension.

The Kislovodsk City Court has granted the complaint filed about the inaction of the officials who conducted the check of the report on the death threat against Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov. The Court has pronounced the ruling on elimination of the violations committed.

The Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has sent to the Ukrainian MFA a note of protest against the statements made by Mikhail Saakashvili, Governor of the Odessa Region.

In the evening of October 30, the NGO "Institute for Democratic Initiatives" (IDI) has published the second interim report on the monitoring of the pre-election campaign of the parliamentary elections. The report covers the phase of the pre-election campaign held on October 10-28.