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The advocate, who represented the interests of Khamzat Bakhaev, a convict in Boris Nemtsov’s murder case, has left Russia for personal security reasons before the consideration of the appeal against the verdict.

During the week of October 2-8, 2017, seven persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, six were killed and another was injured. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has treated the arrests of its activists, detained on the eve of the rally held in Baku on October 7, as politically motivated.

Power agents planted drugs on Dinmagomed Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, and demanded to confess of keeping them, threatening to blow up the family's house, his father said. The court ruled to arrest Magomedov.

After his release from a penal colony in 2014, Arbi Bantaev, who was killed in the Kursk Region on September 30, "was not left along by Chechen law enforcers," and he had to return to militants. This was claimed by his relatives.

Magomed Dudaev, a resident of the Shali District, was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony for joining an illegal armed formation (IAF) in 2016. According to the law enforcement agencies, IAF members did not show themselves in the past year.

Anvar Ismayilov and Rasul Radjabov, who were killed on October 4 in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) area in the Babayurt District of Dagestan, were not involved in the armed underground and were kidnapped on the eve of their execution. This was reported by their relatives.

Cossack Roman Zabolotniy captured by militants in Syria was executed with another Russian citizen after refusing to become a member of the IS. The work is underway to organize the transportation of his body to his homeland. This was reported by Victor Vodolatsky, a State Duma member, the former ataman of the All-Great Don Cossack Army.

A resident of Ingushetia has joined militants in Syria and continues to fight against government forces, investigators report.

Arbi Bantaev, a native of Chechnya, became one of the persons killed in the Kursk Region in a shootout with border guards. This was reported by sources from the law enforcement agencies. According to them, four persons tried to cross the border, including Ali Demelkhanov, who led the Khasavyurt militants.

Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, has suggested that an attempt on his life was prepared by Ingush criminal clans, which patrons stay outside the republic. According to the Imam, the mosque in Nasyr-Kort works as usual.