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The campaign in support of Suleiman Kerimov in Dagestan has become a grassroots initiative out of gratitude to the senator for his charitable projects, some Dagestani journalists have suggested. Their opponent has objected that the campaign is demonstrative in nature and could have been a result of the use of administrative resources.

Askhab Goigov, a member of the Council of Teips (Family Clans) of Ingushetia, and the first president of the republic, Ruslan Aushev, have urged their fellow countrymen not to succumb to emotions and not to react to provocations after the shootout at the office of the Wildberries Company.

Three people perished on October 7-13, 2024, in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus – a policeman and two civilians. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The administration of the Ingush prosecutor’s office instructed employees to shave off their beards under threat of dismissal, and the overwhelming majority of them complied with the order, employees of the Ingush prosecutor’s office reported.

Participants in the mourning rallies honoured the memory of law enforcers and civilians killed 19 years ago during a militants’ attack on Nalchik.

The criminal article on high treason, which was charged to Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, provides for punishment up to life imprisonment, lawyers note. The criminal case has signs of persecution for political reasons, a human rights defender suggests.

A court in Krasnodar has fined Elena Chernojvan, who was detained at a meeting of residents, by 20,000 roubles, finding her guilty of organizing a rally. According to her version, the participants of the rally tried to force authorities to react to complaints about the poor state of the road.

The Muftiate of Dagestan has stated that authorities should resolve the conflict between Ramzan Kadyrov and Suleiman Kerimov, while the society should not be drawn into it. The Muftiate of Chechnya did not publicly respond to the conflict.

Derbent is ready to support Suleiman Kerimov at any time, Akhmed Kuliev, the city Mayor after the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, had threatened Kerimov with a blood feud.

The shooting of a law enforcers' car in Magas was preceded by a special operation conducted by law enforcers in Magas and Nazran, during which seven people were detained and one was killed.

The Tikhoretsky District Court has found the pacifist statements placed in a zoo defending chat as discrediting the Russian Army, Denis Djalaganiya has informed. At the same time, investigators have refused to initiate a criminal case on his beating, in which the denunciation author took part.

Law enforcers together with an IT expert specialist inspected a computer and mobile phones in the home of a Jehovah's Witness* from Novocherkassk, suspecting him of extremism.

Four people perished and five others were wounded and received burns in an explosion at a fuelling station in Grozny.

After Ramzan Kadyrov's threats of blood feud against Suleiman Kerimov, Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan, has recalled the senator's charitable projects and promised that the republic "will always support him in difficult times."

Rizvan Kurbanov, a Russian State Duma MP from Dagestan, has stated that he was not involved in preparing an assassination attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov and has nothing to do with the Wildberries Company.

In the Moscow Region, at the first hearing in the case against Abdulmimin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev, and Abubakar Rizvanov, the Military Court of Appeal refused to grant the motions filed by the defence.

The criminal case against Mansur Zhabrailov, a former Chechen teacher, is being investigated under the article on insulting believers' feelings.

In Novorossiysk, a court found Natalia Fedorenko, an advocate of blogger Vadim Kharchenko*, guilty of violating privacy and banned her from practicing law for two years. Natalia Fedorenko was also sentenced to community service.

Priest Viktor Pivovarov stopped serving in a church in Slavyansk-on-Kuban because he could not get out of bed after an injury. His assistant said that doctors refused to hospitalize the elderly Viktor Pivovarov.

The “Rosfinmonitoring” (Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring) has put journalist Zalina Marshenkulova* from Kabardino-Balkaria, accused of justifying terrorism, on the list of terrorists and extremists.