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A picket demanding from the supervisory bodies to suspend the work expanded clay factories in the settlement of Srednaya Akhtuba until they are reorganized and create a sanitary protection zone in the settlement was held in Volgograd.

On October 15, in the Lenin District of Grozny, law enforcers checked passports in connection with the search for suspected members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), who, according to the operative information, might be hiding in one of the districts of the city.

In the Krasnodar Territory, Viktor Chirikov, an activist of the movement "Solidarity", was attacked and got a stab wound because of the inscription he made on the rear window of his car. The activist did not go to the police, he believes it has no sense, since his former complains about attacks did not bring any results.

In Yerevan, the court of first instance of the administrative districts of Kentron-Nork-Marash has sentenced Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, who organized the "Million Mask March", to six years of imprisonment. The other defendants were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment.

On October 17, the law enforcement bodies conducted a search in the office of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Mothers from Kuma River Area" in Budyonnovsk and the Budyonnovsk District of the Stavropol Territory. Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the 73-year-old head of the NGO, is detained for charge of fraud, the website of the project "RealArmy" reports.

Today, after namaz (evening prayer) law enforcers have detained and took to the police 23 parishioners of the Salafi mosque in Makhachkala. All the detainees were registered and released, the congregation reported later.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has signed a decree to pardon 84 people, including four persons earlier recognized as political prisoners. In his comment on the presidential decree Elshan Gasanov, the head of the Centre for Monitoring Political Prisoners, expressed his regret that the pardoning had failed to solve the problem of political prisoners.

Today, Saiganat Nasibova, a sister of Patimat Nasibova, accused of helping militants, was detained by the police. An hour later, she was released from the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division), said Elena Denisenko, the advocate for Patimat Nasibova.

Today, in Chechnya, the Oktiabrsky District Court of Grozny has found Marina Baisultanova, a local resident, guilty of brutal beating her four-year-old stepdaughter and sentenced her to 9 years and 2 months of imprisonment in a general-security colony.

Evgeny Vitishko, a convicted ecologist from Krasnodar, has no claims to top managers of the colony-settlement, where he serves his term, said Dmitry Gutov and Elena Shmakova, members of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), who have visited the ecologist.

The allegations of involvement of the Islamist grouping of JAMWA (Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar) in the explosion in Grozny on October 5 cause doubts, because of the source of the information. This opinion was expressed by Akhmet Yarlykapov, researcher from the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, and Alexei Malashenko from the Moscow Carnegie Centre.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has dismissed the prosecutors' request to take into custody Islamic preacher Nadir Abu Khalid, suspected of illegal possession of weapons. Thus, the court has upheld the decision of the Kirov District Court of Makhachkala on the detainee's home arrest.

In Dagestan, family members of Elshan Salikhov, one of the men killed on October 16 during a special operation in Derbent, report that he was detained by the law enforcers prior to the special operation. According to the source, it is still not clear whether the wife of the killed man intends to file a complaint to the police about the incident.

On October 16, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) opened an international conference dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War. More than 40 scientists from Northern Caucasus and Moscow take part in the conference. The special feature of the conference is a focus on specific problems related to the study of the history of the Caucasian War.

In Greece, the court has pronounced the decision to refuse extradition to Georgia of Data Akhalaya, the former Chief of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). This was reported on October 16 by advocate Irakli Zakareishvili.

On October 16, in Yerevan, former residents of the central streets, namely: Yekmalyan, Byuzand, and Anrapetutyan Streets, blocked a street in the centre of the Armenian capital and demanded a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Ovik Abramyan. According to the protesters, the government is to provide them with housing facilities.

Ramis Mirzakhanov, a Deputy of the Tabasaran District Assembly of Dagestan, was killed during a special operation. According to investigators, he attacked a law enforcer with a knife. However, his brothers have reported today that OMON (riot police) agents opened fire at Mirzakhanov without a warning.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has ruled today on the case "Kosumova vs. Russia" and concluded that the Russian authorities had failed to conduct a proper investigation into the death of Raisa Kosumova, a resident of Chechnya, in 2003. The court awarded the family of the deceased woman with 20,000 euros as compensation of moral harm.

A new NGO named "Monitoring Centre of Political Prisoners" (MCPP) has been established in Azerbaijan. Its founders are going to focus on protecting the rights of political prisoners and reporting about facts of harassment.

Today, a five-storey dwelling block in Sovietskaya Street of Derbent was blocked, since, according to power agents, two members of the "Yuzhdag" grouping of militants were hiding in a flat there. They refused to surrender and were killed. Another suspected militant was killed in another house, said a law enforcement source. According to the NAC, the killed militants were planning to commit a terror act and then to leave to fight in Syria.