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Mass detentions of people suspected of the use of narcotic and psychotropic substances are being carried out in Chechnya. The raids are of operational and preventive nature, the police explained.

Raisa Pogodaeva, an opposition activist from the town of Goryachiy Klyuch, has been sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest for reposting a video of Kuban blogger Leonid Kudinov with a swastika. This has been reported by activist Darya Polyudova.

Some of those convicted in the case of Dmitry Batyrev's death in Kalmyk Colony No. 1 received unduly short prison terms, the victims' advocate has stated.

The commander of the unit of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), where on October 23 an officer shot dead four of his colleagues, was dismissed and is giving testimonies within the service check.

A complaint has been filed against the decision to arrest Zagidat Abakarova and Muslimat Kurbanova after their voluntary return from the warfare zone in Syria, Djuma Magomedova, an advocate, has stated.

The report of special services that the liquidated militants had been plotting a terror act at an opposition rally in Baku is able of intimidating the protesters and thereby affecting the number of them, the politicians and experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In Estonia, the Pavel Sheremet Award granted to Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly was handed over to his wife Leyla Mustafaeva.

In Chechnya, law enforcers detained a commander of a unit from the National Guard of Russia (Rosgvardia), in which an officer shot and killed four of his colleagues on October 23. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement agencies.

Sergey Kyuregyan was placed to a punishment cell after he had delivered a speech at a court hearing in the Shengavit District Court of Armenia held on October 24. This was reported by his father Armenak Kyuregyan.

The police detained a man who had managed to escape after attacking policemen in Yessentuki.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala has pronounced the decisions to take into custody Zagidat Abakarova, a 34-year-old mother of many children, and 25-year-old Muslimat Kurbanova after their voluntary return from the war zone in Syria. The Court's decisions have been pronounced despite the fact that each of the women has an infant. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by the women's relatives.

Two men opened fire on policemen in the city of Yessentuki; two patrolmen were wounded, and one of the attackers was shot dead, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Stavropol Territory has reported.

On October 24, a new trial was launched by the North-Caucasian District Military Court on financing terrorism. Two young women, Anastasia Shilikhina and Yulduz Alieva, both born in 1991, are in the prisoner's dock, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, Shota Khizanishvili, the former Georgian Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, sentenced in the case on wiretapping of the talks of the leaders from the "Georgian Dream" Party, has left the prison.