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A Dagestani lawyer and his friend are suspected of sexual assault, robbery, extortion of 2 million roubles, and arms trafficking. At investigators' request the court put them into custody.

The Yasamal District Court of Baku has finished considering the lawsuit filed in the order of private accusation by Nuriya Guseinova, a former cellmate of the rights defender Leyla Yunus, against the latter's advocate Alaif Gasanov.

Most of the users of social networks questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have treated negatively the "Caucasian March", held in Moscow on the National Unity Day, calling it "unnatural" and treating the participation in it of Caucasian natives as humiliating.

The resignation of Irakli Alasaniya from the post of Minister of Defence and his announcement about the withdrawal of his party "Free Democrats" from the ruling coalition have resulted of the attempts to correct the country's pro-Western course, Georgian political analysts believe.

The Makhachkala babysitting "Happy Child" Centre, which was suspended by law enforcers, was reopened on Thursday. Earlier, power agents made another check of the centre, saying they did not receive information about the permit to reopen the preschool facility.

On Thursday, in Baku, the apartment of Djavakhir Akhundova, the mother of rights activist Gulnara Akhundova, who is now living abroad, was searched.

Ingush policemen are conduction their operative activities aimed to find and detain the man who had opened fire in the city of Nazran.

The hunger strike of public activists who demand resignation of Ramazan Abdulatipov continues in Makhachkala. The protesters intend to go on until their demands are satisfied.

The human rights activist Albina Magomedova states that power agents broke into her household in Makhachkala; and that she fears for her life and lives of her relatives.

The advocate of Rasul Magomedkadiev, accused of riots outside a mosque in Makhachkala has appealed against the arrest of his client. The detainee’s wife has stated a violation of his rights by law enforcers.

The lawyer Khalid Bagirov has been removed from defending the rights of the arrested rights defender Leyla Yunus. This investigator's decision is aimed at weakening her defence, said the lawyer.

Levan Dolidze, the Georgia's representative at the NATO, resigns in the context of the events around surrounding the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The participants of the Eighth Festival of Documentary Films and Author's TV Programmes of Northern Caucasus "Kunaki" (Friends), which is held in Abkhazia, have discussed at a roundtable the participation of natives of Northern and Southern Caucasus in World War I as soldiers of the so-called "Wild Division".

In the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) in the Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a blast of an improvised explosive device (IED) wounded four law enforcers.

On Wednesday, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan found Mikhail Stolyarov, the dismissed Mayor of Astrakhan, guilty of bribery and sentenced him to 10 years in a high security colony and a fine, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The suspected militant killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was a bomb specialist of the unit of the banned international terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz", said the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The international human rights organization Freedom House has condemned the refusal of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to reconsider the case of Ruslan Kutaev, the convicted head of the Assembly of the Peoples of Northern Caucasus.

In the morning on Wednesday, in Nalchik, a policeman was lost in an attack committed by unidentified persons.

The National Unity Day was celebrated in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) with rallies, concerts and folk festivals; thousands of young residents gathered in regional capitals to collectively perform the anthem of the Russian Federation.

Irakli Alasaniya, the leader of the "Our Georgia – Free Democrats" Party, has resigned from the post of the Defence Minister and stated that Georgia is in political crisis.