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The Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring) has updated the list of persons involved in extremist and terrorist activities.

The newspaper Hurriyet has reported that the Istanbul police detained natives of Chechnya and Dagestan on suspicion of involvement in the "Turkey" (IS).

During the autumn conscription to army, Dagestan plans to send for military service in the army the greatest number of conscripts 1500. The smallest number of all conscripts, as compared to other republics from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), will be sent to the army from Ingushetia 400 conscripts.

Umar Akhtaev, a resident of Chechnya, is to face trial on charge of undermining a grenade inside a police car.

Following the results of consideration of the appeal filed by "Community of Creative Forces" against the Chechen Supreme Court's decision on the liquidation of the organization, the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the verdict.

No criminal proceedings were initiated about the fact of beating of former policeman Artyom Khatukhov in the city of Terek, and no measures were taken against a suspect. This was reported by the victim. Artyom Khatukhov applied to the prosecutor's office, in which he demanded to deal with the inaction of law enforcement officers.

In Northern Caucasus, militants actively use Internet. This opinion was expressed by political analyst Akhmet Yarlykapov. His colleague Yana Amelina believes that militants have no need to use modern means of communication.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic has upheld the verdict against 19-year-old Arbi Dikaev sentenced to five years of imprisonment for attempting to go to Syria to join the "Islamic State", recognized in Russia as a terrorist organization.

Abu Bakr al-Shishani, a Chechen-Kist, a native of the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, was not injured during an airstrike in Syria. This was reported by a source in the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya. According to the source, Abu Bakr al-Shishani is a close relative of Seyfullah al-Shishani (Ruslan Machalikashvili), who was killed in 2014.

Polina Daurkina, a Judge of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, expressed her "dissenting opinion" after approval by the appeal instance of the decision of the lower court on the suit on protection of reputation of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) against rights defenders and Murad Amriev, who stated that he had been tortured by policemen.

A native of Chechnya, who was granted the refugee status in Poland, is accused Russia of involvement in combat operations in Chechnya in 1995-2003. He managed to convince the court that he has no chance of a fair trial at home.

About 20 schoolchildren from remote villages of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia will receive photo cameras to capture their daily life and thus narrate about their childhood. Best works, to be defined by online voting on the Internet, will be presented at an exhibition in Moscow.

During the week of October 12-18, 2015, at least 8 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, seven persons were killed, and one person was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Russian Justice Initiative (RJI) and the Chechnya Advocacy Network (CAN) have sent to the 62nd session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) the alternative report on the Russia's compliance with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in Northern Caucasus.