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During the week from October 25 to October 31, 2021, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about casualties or wounded persons was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other sources.

The "Roskomnadzor" (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media) has demanded from the YouTube to block the video by Adam Gisaev, a native of Chechnya and a former prisoner, telling about torture at the Irkutsk SIZO (pre-trial prison), which was posted on the channel of the human rights project Gulagu.net.

The "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) has presented the report, in which three women detained by Chechen law enforcers for practising witchcraft, were scolded, as "psychics' battle under law enforcers' supervision." Some Instagram users believe that this sarcasm was inappropriate.

In Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), tests were held for the right to wear maroon berets, which for the first time were accompanied by video broadcast. This novelty is explained by an attempt to avoid frauds when passing tests after the incident with candidates from Chechnya, the military analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Islam Khizriev, the head of the Chechen mission in the Russian North-Western Federal District (NWFD), detained in St. Petersburg on suspicion of possession of drugs, was placed under house arrest until December 25.

Despite the permit received from Ramzan Kadyrov, Rubati Mitsaeva, an emigrant, said that she had not yet agreed on her return to Chechnya.

The information that after the scandal with pretenders from Chechnya, no further tests for the right to wear maroon berets will be held in Northern Caucasus looks like a fake, Sergey Goncharov, a special troop veteran, is sure. The retired Colonel Gennady Gudkov, a former FSB employee, believes that this option is being studied.

The police detained an employee of the Chechen representative office in the Northwestern Federal District within an investigation into a drug purchase case.

19 years after the tragedy at the "Dubrovka" Theatre Centre, authorities still fail to reveal the reason of deaths, many of the victims have diseases of toxic origin, victims' relatives said on the anniversary of the storming.

The man accused of killing Zelimkhan Khangoshvili is Vadim Krasikov, an agent of Russian special services, who had been a member of Vladimir Putin's inner circle, a Krasikov's relative stated on October 26, during his second testimony at a Berlin court. He explained that earlier he had not identified Krasikov out of fear.

Salman Mukaev, a native of Grozny, was forced to flee Chechnya after being tortured. Now, he is in Armenia; in Russia, he has been declared wanted and fears that he could be extradited.

Abdullakh Kadyrov, a son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, became the winner of the contest for reading the Koran in a kindergarten, which was the first for him, the leader of the region announced.

In her video appeal to Tumso Abdurakhmanov, Rubati Mitsaeva, who lives in Berlin, has supported Ramzan Kadyrov, who permitted her to return to Chechnya, and joined in criticizing the blogger. Instagram users consider the appeal of the Akhmed Zakaev’s former comrade-in-arms to be emotional and insufficiently reasoned.

Khusein Bakarov, a Chechen law enforcer, who was detained in August in Khasavyurt, has been released under house arrest until November 3. He will stay at his home in Gudermes.