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For his refusal to resign, Takhir Murdalov, the Acting Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic, was beaten up by Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the local Parliament, the "Kavkaz.Realii" (Realities of the Caucasus) reports; the information was confirmed by sources of the "Novaya Gazeta".

Today, in Moscow, the performance "A journalist. Whole life in a second", based on interviews and publications of Yuri Schekochikhin and Anna Politkovskaya, correspondents of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", has completed in discussion held in the format of "open mike".

The participants of the action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, the slain journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", have brought to the monument of Lermontov in Moscow puppets in black bags, symbolizing six journalists assassinated in Russia, namely: Anna Politkovskaya, Mikhail Beketov, Magomed Evloev, Anastasia Baburova, Natalia Estemirova and Gadjimurad Kamalov, and read out fragments of journalists' writings.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the petition lodged by Khadija Ismayilova and asking to remove illegal entrepreneurship from her accusations. Her defence now intends to appeal against the dismissal at the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan.

Today, in Dagestan, residents of the village of Shushiya of the Novolaksky District have continued their protest action with the demand to return their land plots, allocated to them after their resettlement.

The murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya cannot be treated as solved, unless the customer of the murder is identified. This was reported by Sergey Sokolov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". He has also noted that sooner or later, the newspaper will report the name of the customer of the journalist's murder.

In the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) carried out in Nazran and the village of Gazi-Yurt, six militants were killed, including a member of the terrorist organization "Islamic State", banned in Russia. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The two persons killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the village of Gazi-Yurt, in Ingushetia, were spouses, a law enforcement source has reported.

Today, October 7, marks the tenth anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". The customer of the murder has not yet been identified, and he enjoys its impunity against the background of the authorities' reluctance to solve the crime. This opinion was expressed by relative of Anna Politkovskaya and staff members of the "Novaya Gazeta".

Seven residents of Khasavyurt, four residents of Kaspiysk, and a native of Dagestan, who came from abroad to visit his relatives in Makhachkala, were kidnapped in the period from September 19 to October 4. These are the results of the calculations run by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

In Makhachkala, the police detained six relatives of the residents of Dagestan who disappeared on September 27. The detainees were brought to the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Soviet District of Makhachkala. This was reported by the wife of disappeared Shamil Djamalutdinov.

In Chechnya, cars are seized and brought to car pounds for any violation of the traffic regulations and toning of car windows. This was reported by car owners. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the current measures are aimed at reducing number of road traffic accidents.

The public committee to protect the rights of Rufat Safarov, a former investigator of the Zardob District Prosecutor's Office, sentenced to 9 years of imprisonment on the charge of bribery, includes advocates, journalists, human rights defenders, and poets. This was reported by Eldaniz Guliev, the chair of the established committee.

Today, the operational headquarters for Dagestan has lifted the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, introduced in the Tabasaran District on October 2.