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Three militants were killed in a special operation held in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny; one more was shot dead in a shootout with patrol policemen, said representatives of power structures. Three policemen were wounded.

Writer from Belarus Svetlana Aleksievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. Among her works there are books about the Chechen War, the Chernobyl disaster and the Second World War.

In the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, a 20-year-old girl has been detained, who was on the international wanted list on suspicion of terrorism. The detainee is a native of Ingushetia and recently returned from Austria.

The complaint lodged by the defence of the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko against the refusal of the Kirsanov District Court of July 31 to replace the remaining term in colony for restriction of freedom has been satisfied by the Tambov Regional Court.

Residents of the Syrian village of Deir Foale, founded by immigrants from Dagestan, have found themselves in an air strike area. This was reported by the villagers. According to unconfirmed information, two Circassian villages were also affected by air strikes.

Members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) have visited at the IVS (temporary detention facility) Djamal Razhitkhanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, detained on suspicion of aiding and abetting members of an illegal armed formation (IAF). The man has waived services of an advocate under pressure of investigators. This was reported by the defence of Djamal Razhitkhanov.

Last night, in the Tsumada District of Dagestan, unidentified persons fired several shots at a car with policemen and wounded one of them. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

The organization "Amnesty International" (AI) treats the ban on entry of its employees in Azerbaijan as a "serious attack" on freedom of speech in connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections.

After studying the proposed amendments to the Constitution of Armenia, a group of 52 advocates came to the conclusion that the constitutional reform represents "a threat to the system of governance." This was reported by advocate Yervand Varosyan at the press conference held in Yerevan on October 7.

Today, in Grozny, the stadium "Akhmat-Arena" has hosted the ceremonies to celebrate the birthday of Vladimir Putin. City residents complained that they were obliged to attend the rally.

In the centre of the capital of Dagestan, Shamil Magomedov, who opened fire on policemen, was killed in the course of the shootout. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has dismissed the appeal to invalidate the decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow on the extension of the Zaur Dadaev's arrest until November 28.

Today, the Council of Europe (CE) has made the decision to quit the Joint Working Group on Human Rights in Azerbaijan. This step is explained by the lack of progress in addressing the human rights problems and the deterioration of the situation in this sphere in the country.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Shalushka River is suffering an ecological disaster because of the discharges of sewage effluent. This was reported by local residents. According to the studies carried out by specialists of the "Kabbalkvodresursy", the concentration of nitrates and ammonium phosphate in water of the Shalushka River exceeds permissible level of pollution.

In Boris Nemtsov murder case, Ruslan Geremeev is in the status of a witness, and he has not been put on the federal wanted list. Vadim Prokhorov, an advocate of the family members of the murdered politician, disagrees with the above facts, and he is seeking for the charge against Ruslan Geremeev in absentia.

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.