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In the period from October to December of 2017, at least 15 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Dagestan. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the period from October 1 to December 31, 2017, in the territory of North Ossetia, no killed or wounded people were registered in the course of the armed confrontation between law enforcers and militants. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the period from October 1 to December 31, 2017, 12 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Ingushetia. Of them, four were killed and eight others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In November 2017, at least 15 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, five were killed and ten others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In October 2017, at least 12 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, eight were killed and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

After Ksenia Sobchak, a public person and a journalist, had been nominated to run for Russian presidency, her offices and volunteer groups launched activities in the regions. In Rostov-on-Don, Mineralnye Vody, Sochi, and Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" interviewed supporters and volunteers of Ksenia Sobchak to find out what to expect from the "candidate against all" and why she is more preferable than Putin and Navalny. Rivals and opponents of Ksenia Sobchak also had something to tell about her.

For more than 10 years, in an outskirt of Grozny, a secret oil refinery has been operating. It is situated at the exit from the Zavodskoy District of the city in the direction of the dwelling settlement of Andreevskaya Dolina. This was reported in a letter sent to the "Caucasian Knot" by one of Grozny townspeople. Residents of other places of Russian South – of the city of Tuapse and Dagestani countryside – told about their personal experience and consequences of living close to oil refineries.

The "Caucasian Knot" tells why it is not easy to return militants' children to Russia, who is engaged in the process, and how many children they have already managed to return.

In September 2017, at least 16 people fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, nine persons were killed and seven others were injured. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

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The persecution issue of gays in Northern Caucasus became debatable thanks to investigations by Elena Milashina in the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper. However, gays are persecuted not only in Chechnya, but throughout Northern Caucasus, where the theme of such repressions had been tabooed for a decade. In some regions, extortions from and blackmailing of gays by law enforcers were a sort of a conveyor process.

In March 2017, at least nine persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, seven persons were killed and two others were injured. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.