An explosion occurred in an apartment building in the capital of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, Cherkessk. Two people died and several were injured after two floors collapsed.

Former Federation Council member from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov has demanded to be transferred to a prison in Mordovia. He is being held in the Black Dolphin correctional facility in the Orenburg Region, where, according to him, he is being tortured and provoked.

The Coordination Center of Muslims of the North Caucasus asked the authorities to adopt legislative acts that will not allow regions and departments to ban "the wearing of mandatory religious clothing in the Russian Federation."

It has become known about the presumed death of the second Rosgvardia officer injured in the attack in Chechnya. This was reported by the opposition channel NIYSO.

Today, one day before the parliamentary elections in Georgia, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and nine of its partners in the Council of Europe Platform on the Safety of Journalists published a report and recommendations aimed at guaranteeing the safety of journalists and the public’s right to reliable information.

In the village of Petropavlovskaya in the Grozny district of Chechnya, unknown individuals shot at a military truck of the National Guard "Ural". One serviceman was killed, another was wounded, Baza reports.

Dagestan ranks third among the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of the number of wanted citizens who are accused in criminal cases. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there were 3,062 of them in the republic in January-September.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office demanded that six Telegram channels be removed, including the resource of Chechen opposition activists 1ADAT. In August, a Moscow court fined Telegram four million rubles for refusing to satisfy this demand. This was reported by the publication "Verstka".

A criminal case has been opened against former senator from the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, Rauf Arashukov, who is serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin penal colony. He is accused of bribing a prison employee through a lawyer. For 3 million rubles, he wanted to receive unlimited visits and the right to choose his cellmates. The FSIN employee told the security forces about the offer, and recorded all subsequent meetings on camera.

Police detained 45-year-old Bashir Omarkhodjaev and 49-year-old Vasily Konovalov. The former is suspected of being the customer and the latter of being the perpetrator of the assassination attempt on Sherip Alikhadzhiev, former deputy chairman of the Ingush government and assistant to State Duma deputy General Shamanov.