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Ruslan Mamaev, accused of attacking Tumso Abdurakhmanov in Sweden, had received his assignment from a man from Chechnya, who was arrested in absentia. Mamaev may receive political asylum in Sweden after stating that he had no plans to kill Tumso, the human rights defender has stated.

The family of Ramzan Kadyrov took part in a contest to increase subscribers on social networks, by paying 400,000 roubles for each of the promoted accounts, said Morgenstern, a rap performer.

A total of 291 Azerbaijani citizens awaiting departure to their homeland have been transferred from the temporary accommodation centre (TAC), organized near the village of Kullar, to a children's health camp in Dagestan.

A court in Baku has found Afghan Sadygov, the head of the "Azel.tv" website, guilty of extortion through threats and sentenced him to seven years in prison. The journalist himself has claimed falsification of the criminal case and again went on a hunger strike.

Following the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the MMA fighter, Khabib Nurmagomedov, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has condemned the "provocateurs" who offend believers under the guise of the freedom of speech.

At night on November 4, a group of saboteurs from Azerbaijan was discovered near the city of Shushi, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. The Defence Army of Karabakh announced the partial closure of the Shushi-Berdzor motorway for residents in connection with the search for sabotage groups.

Five prisoners who participated in an attack on Giorgi Rurua, a co-owner of the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel, have been transferred to another penitentiary institution with a tightening of the penal colony regime. The investigation into a criminal case on beating is underway, the Georgian Special Penitentiary Service reports.

Since the beginning of the escalation of the Karabakh conflict, 46 people were killed and 144 others were injured during shelling attacks on cities, towns, and villages in Nagorno-Karabakh, reports Artak Beglaryan, Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh. He associates most of the casualties with cluster bombing.

Military servicemen of Nagorno-Karabakh are shelling five villages in the Terter and Agdjabedi Districts, Azerbaijani authorities have claimed. Nagorno-Karabakh declares victims as a result of the strike on the city of Shushi.

The use of banned phosphorus weapons threatens with condemnation by the international community; the parties to the Karabakh conflict will not dare doing it, experts have stated after mutual accusations from Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. They treat the published evidence of using phosphorus shells as inconclusive.

Ruslan Mamaev, accused of attacking the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had to disobey the order of those who sent him to Sweden from Grozny, the blogger asserts.

According to investigators, Dmitry Mikvabiya has allowed, contrary to the law, a 24-hour-long visit of a Sukhumi woman with a man held at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). In the morning, she was found dead there.

The Instagram administration has removed the post of the Chechen newspaper "Vesti Respubliki" (Republic's News) with caricatures on the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, which had published caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. Chechen authorities have reproached Instagram for double standards.

The number of mercenaries from the Middle East countries in the Karabakh conflict zone has approached 2000, Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), has stated.

The regular Friday law enforcers' raids at the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala create an image of illegality for it and frighten off the believers. Forced to avoid visiting the mosque, such believers are trying to search for religious information on the Internet and risk to fall under the influence of radical views, the representative of the mosque have stated.

The number of killed civilians has increased to 46, while the number of wounded – to 142, the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh reports. In the morning, the cities of Martuni and Shushi have been shelled with missiles, the Nagorno-Karabakh Service for Emergencies reports.

In Azerbaijani villages, no bomb shelters were equipped at a distance from the frontline, and therefore, local residents have to arrange dugout shelters by themselves. Villagers, whose houses have been destroyed in shelling attacks, move to their neighbours' and relatives' places.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Salakh Mezhiev, the republic's Mufti, who were actively commenting on the murder of the teacher in France, did not react to the terror acts in Vienna. The authorities of the European countries cannot cope with the influx of Muslim refugees and do not take into account their religious specifics, political analysts note.

After the terror acts in Vienna, the Austrian authorities detained natives of Northern Caucasus and the Balkan countries, Russian Ambassador to Austria Dmitry Lyubinsky reported.

The area of forests burned down in Nagorno-Karabakh as a result of shelling attacks by the Azerbaijani troops with incendiary weapons has reached 1815 hectares, the Nagorno-Karabakh Service for Emergencies reports. In turn, the Azerbaijani authorities have accused Nagorno-Karabakh of attacking with similar weapons the forests in the vicinity of the Shusha city.