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In Grozny, law enforcers and representatives of the Muslim clergy held a series of inspections in the stores selling Islamic products, where they searched for the banned religious literature.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya is delaying issuing the records of court hearings on consideration of the appeals against the verdict in the case against Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus. This was reported by Pyotr Zaikin, an advocate of Ruslan Kutaev.

The information of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about the death of one of the leaders of the ISIL Tarkhan Batirashvili (Abu Umar al-Shishani), posted on the Instagram network, is untrue, said Umar Idigov, the head of the NGO "Foundation of Caucasus Integration", and a resident of the village of Duisi in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.

The murder of Tarkhan Batirashvili, a commander of a radical Islamic grouping of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), was announced today by the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

Today, the Moscow City Court has refused to grant the appeal to postpone the punishment for ex-militiaman Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who was sentenced for involvement in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". Advocates of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov have filed a motion to postpone the punishment, since Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov was diagnosed with a number of diseases.

During the week of November 3-9, 2014, at least seven persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, two persons were killed, and five others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Most of the users of social networks questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent have treated negatively the "Caucasian March", held in Moscow on the National Unity Day, calling it "unnatural" and treating the participation in it of Caucasian natives as humiliating.

The participants of the Eighth Festival of Documentary Films and Author's TV Programmes of Northern Caucasus "Kunaki" (Friends), which is held in Abkhazia, have discussed at a roundtable the participation of natives of Northern and Southern Caucasus in World War I as soldiers of the so-called "Wild Division".

The international human rights organization Freedom House has condemned the refusal of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya to reconsider the case of Ruslan Kutaev, the convicted head of the Assembly of the Peoples of Northern Caucasus.

The National Unity Day was celebrated in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) with rallies, concerts and folk festivals; thousands of young residents gathered in regional capitals to collectively perform the anthem of the Russian Federation.

In the morning on Tuesday, a fire happened in one of the rooms of the Grozny Airport in Chechnya. The fire has been localized, no one suffered, and the airport works without any interruptions.