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The results are known of the medical examination of the rights defender Intigam Aliev, arrested in Azerbaijan, whose health deteriorated on October 24 during a court session, where the extension of his arrest was considered.

Islam Beshkurov, who was killed on October 30 in the Baksan District of Kabardino-Balkaria, was buried in the village of Dugulubgey, his relatives told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On October 31, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) hosted a scientific-practical conference to discuss the problem of corruption in the bodies of state power, organized by the Public Chamber of the KBR.

At a checkpoint on the border of Dagestan and Stavropol Territory, power agents detained, for more than an hour, the bus, in which the lawyer Elena Denisenko was travelling. She was told, at inspection of her documents, that the FSB wanted to talk to her. Elena associates the incident with her defence of the rights of Patimat Nasibova, a resident of the village of Kirovaul.

The Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has excluded two articles dealing with terrorism from the indictment of Adam Osmaev, a native of Grozny, accused of an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Policemen shot dead a man in the capital of Dagestan. The killed man was a militant, and he tried to render armed resistance to the policemen, the law enforcement bodies report. According to a source in the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the policemen shot dead Abdulkadi Guseinov, a member of the "Sogratl" militant grouping.

The Georgian Parliament has finally adopted the law banning the secret services to wiretap. MPs have refused to override the veto of the President, who opposed postponing the introduction of the new rules. Thereafter, Georgy Margvelashvili has signed the law.

Stamping of collector silver coins-medals bearing the image of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has been launched in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Region. Political analysts interviewed by the ‘Caucasian Knot’ say that this initiative is a typical manifestation of the personality cult.

On October 30, the Congress of Karachay people sent a notification to the administration of the Malokarachay District of Karachay-Cherkessia of cancellation of the previously expected rally with 5000 participants against prosecution of Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov.

In Chechnya, the authorities have initiated the preventive operation "Family". In the territory of the republic, 17 street children were identified. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya. According to the Chechen MIA, the majority of them are children of immigrants.

On October 31, Magomed Guseinov, one of the hunger-strikers in Makhachkala, was sent for medical examination because of deterioration of his health state, and he had to stop the hunger strike. This was reported by Ruslan Rasulov, the head of the administration of the regional branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party in Dagestan.

Today, Nadezhda Kireeva, a mother of many children from Volgograd, was detained in Moscow during a solo picket, Kireeva herself has reported.

After a mass brawl of worshipers with policemen near a mosque in Makhachkala, five persons were detained, as reported by eyewitnesses of the incident. The police have confirmed the information about the detention.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has completed considering the complaint against the verdict to Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus, and decided to reduce his prison term from 4 years down to 3 years and 10 months, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the SC.

Alexander Tolmachov, who was sentenced by the Kuschevskaya District Court to nine years in a high security colony, has lodged an appeal complaint to the Krasnodar Territorial Court. Another appeal was also lodged by one of his advocates – Eduard Uskov. Other advocates are also preparing their complaints.

The defendant Alautdin Dadaev was questioned today at the trial on terror acts in Volgograd, said his advocate Selim Magomedov. The defendant confirmed his earlier evidence about his innocence.

Mukhammed Mirzali, an activist of the youth branch of the Goichay district organization of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sentenced to 20 days of administrative arrest. The court found him guilty of disorderly conduct (minor hooliganism) and disobeying the police.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint filed by Sergey Butrin, an inmate of the Stavropol penal colony, who went blind and got several serious chronic diseases at penitentiary institutions. In his complaint to the ECtHR, Sergey Butrin indicates intolerable detention conditions during serving his sentence and complains about the courts' dismissal of his request for release because of his health state.

Mothers of large families from the Volgograd Region held a series of solo pickets in Moscow. They demanded to fulfil social obligations of the state to them. According to the picketers, the authorities have hardly responded to their protest actions.

Ingushetia has cancelled the celebrations in connection with the 60th birthday of Ruslan Aushev, the first President of Ingushetia, at his request. This was reported by Shamsudin Bokov, the Press Secretary of the leader of Ingushetia.