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Agil Makhmudov, the editor-in-chief of the "hefteaz.info" news website, has been administratively arrested for 20 days. Activists believe that the journalist is persecuted for his publications.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, who is being kept in custody, is awarded the Václav Havel International Human Rights Prize, presented today in Strasbourg.

A man was hospitalized after a shelling in the city of Sunzha, reported the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Among the versions of the incident, investigators consider "blood feud," reports a source from the law enforcement bodies of the region.

At the trial in the case against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny Oyub Titiev, public prosecutor persuaded the court to question a policeman behind closed doors and explained his request by presence in the courtroom of journalists from editions that "presented information in a distorted way."

Protests in Ingushetia against the agreement on the borders with Chechnya; "counter-revolution" in Armenia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 1-7, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On the 12th anniversary of the death of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, Harlem Désir, OSCE Representative in Europe, has voiced a call to bring to justice the persons who ordered her murder.

Ruslan Rakhaev, a former deputy head of the Cherkessk OVD (Interior Department), the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), sentenced to nine years in prison, have been convoyed to a penal colony.

Russian authorities have failed to investigate the involvement of law enforcers and Chechen officials in the crime, said Dunja Mijatovic, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), on the eve of the anniversary of Anna Politkovskaya's murder.

A murder of a policeman in the Baksan District has become the first armed incident in Kabardino-Balkaria after a shootout with law enforcers in December 2017.

The court has rejected the petition of Islam Gugov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was accused of links with Syrian militants and claimed violations during the investigation. The prosecutor has treated the defence's version that Gugov's case was law enforcers' revenge on him as untenable.

The Georgian resident, who was arrested in South Ossetia, has stated that she had not been subjected to physical violence after detention. She was arrested for one month, the court has stated.

According to sources, a 26-year-old resident of the Atazhukino village was put on the wanted list on suspicion of killing a policeman in Kabardino-Balkaria.

On October 2, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 74,500 euros to relatives of Rasul Tsakoev, a resident of the village of Khasanya in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), having found law enforcers guilty of his torture and death.

The death case of Ivan Geliev, a resident of Anapa, after his detention by law enforcers has been resumed by decision of the Prosecutor's Office, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has stated.