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November 26, 2018 16:04

• Actions against "UNM" Party held in Tbilisi

  During the "No to the 'United National Movement'" actions, activists called on people to vote at the second round of the election for a candidate supported by the ruling "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" Party.

November 26, 2018 15:06

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 19-25, 2018

  Verdict in the case on an attack on a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Makhachkala; award to Oyub Titiev of the Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law; end of the trial in the case against the former head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan; telethon of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund to raise funds for Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia; arrest of rapper Husky in Krasnodar, ‑ see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 19-25, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

November 26, 2018 10:58

• Visit of Nagorno-Karabakh President to Moscow provokes sharp Azerbaijan's reaction

  The visit of Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Saakyan to Moscow on November 24 undermines efforts for the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict and may lead to an unpredictable development of the situation, states the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Azerbaijan.

November 26, 2018 10:57

• Congress of Chechens in Dagestani Khasavyurt alarms network users

  Chechens have no "mono-ethnic region" in Dagestan, and it is a big problem. This has been declared by State Duma member Buvaisar Saitiev at the Congress of Chechens of Dagestan held in Khasavyurt. The statement voiced by the State Duma member has alarmed Dagestani users of social networks, and they have pointed out the danger of aggravation of the territorial dispute and the outbreak of conflict.

November 26, 2018 10:57

• Singer Mashidat Omaraskhabova wounded in Makhachkala

  The police are engaged in investigation into an assassination attempt on Mashidat Omaraskhabova, Meritorious Artist of Dagestan, who got a bullet wound near her house in Makhachkala.

November 25, 2018 11:43

• March of Nikol Pashinyan's supporters finished in Yerevan

  On November 24, participants of the rally, led by Nikol Pashinyan, marched through nine out of twelve administrative districts of the Armenian capital. Nikol Pashinyan called the march unprecedented.

November 25, 2018 11:28

• Nagorno-Karabakh accuses Azerbaijan of 150 cases of shelling per week

  In the week from November 18 to 24, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired 2000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

November 25, 2018 11:21

• Grozny residents report on detentions of youth party participants

  After a publication of a video, in which Chechen young men and women demonstrate bottles with drinks, law enforcers identified and detained those young people. They were set free only several days later, relatives of the detainees reported.

November 25, 2018 11:10

• A supporter of Grigol Vashadze beaten in Marneuli

  In Marneuli, three law enforcers stopped Kakha Kvaratskheliya, a 50-year-old supporter of Grigol Vashadze, checked his ID and when they learned that he would vote for Grigol Vashadze, they beat him for that, reported the spokesman of the Grigol Vashadze's office in Marneuli, with reference to the victim.

November 24, 2018 16:57

• Azerbaijan reports on 26 attacks from Armenian side

  Over the past day, the armed forces of Armenia 26 times violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line of the troops, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

November 24, 2018 16:43

• Thousands of Nikol Pashinyan's supporters march in Yerevan

  The march through most of the Yerevan districts sums up the "velvet revolution," announces Nikol Pashinyan, the acting Prime Minister of Armenia.

November 24, 2018 16:31

• In Russia, Northern Caucasus leads in number of unemployed people

  In Ingushetia, a quarter of the employable population remains without work. In total, in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the unemployment rate is 9.9%, the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal State Statistics Service) reports.

November 24, 2018 11:54

• Circassian repatriates' house to be repaired with funds raised from sale of calendars

  Activists from Kabardino-Balkaria hold an annual charity event for the sale of the Circassian calendars for 2019. The organizers decided to spend the proceeds on repairing the house of a Syrian repatriates.

November 24, 2018 11:48

• Prosecution witness testifies in favour of Pavel Grib

  Maria Yuristova, a friend of Sochi resident Tatiana Ershova, has partially retracted her earlier testimony given at trial in the case against the Ukrainian citizen Pavel Grib and refuted the prosecutors' version. Tatiana Ershova and Pavel Grib did not discuss any plans of terror act and the political issues were not the main topic of their conversations, the witness stated.

November 24, 2018 11:38

• Court arrests a man suspected of wounding Grigol Vashadze's supporter

  The court decided to detain a man suspected of attempting to assassinate Nodar Burdiladze, the head of the Grigol Vashadze's election office in the Oni District. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Georgia stated that the attack did not have any political background.

November 24, 2018 01:30

• Two natives of Dagestan sentenced for plotting a terror act in Moscow

  On November 23, the Moscow District Military Court found Ibragim and Adam Gakaev guilty of plotting explosions during the FIFA Confederations Cup and sentenced each of them to seven years of imprisonment.

November 24, 2018 01:26

• BBC traces path of mercenaries to Syria from Southern Russia

  Starting from early 2018, Russian mercenaries from the "Wagner Private Military Company", who took part in military operations in eastern Ukraine and Syria, have been performing tasks in two African countries: Sudan and the Central African Republic, a fighter from the private military company has told BBC.

November 23, 2018 22:35

• In Azerbaijan, activist sentenced to correctional labour and a fine

  In Baku, a court found lawyer and blogger Aslan Ismailov guilty of hooliganism and sentenced him to a year of correctional labour and a fine of 900 US dollars. Aslan Ismailov associated the prosecution with his criticism of the authorities.

November 23, 2018 22:26

• Krasnodar law enforcers interrupt picket against torture

  Today, in Krasnodar, Alexei Nikitin has held a solo picket with the demand to stop torturing detainees and close a special detention centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The picketer has stated that law enforcers detained him, but the police claim that they simply had a conversation with Alexei Nikitin.

November 23, 2018 17:57

• Azerbaijan registers 28 attacks per day

  Units of the Armenian armed forces 28 times violated the ceasefire regime by using large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.