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Today, participants of a protest action against the election outcome, who spent a night in tents set up in front of the parliament building in Tbilisi, have left Rustaveli Avenue.

Third violated ceasefire agreement in the Karabakh conflict zone; coronavirus infection spread statistics in the Caucasus; parliamentary elections in Georgia; public outcry caused by Ramzan Kadyrov's statement about the French president; events in memory of victims of political repressions in Southern Russia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 26-November 1, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Baku has treated the Armenia's statement about the capture in Nagorno-Karabakh of a mercenary from Syria fighting for Azerbaijan as falsified. In his turn, Khikmet Gadjiev, an assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, has stated that militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party are fighting on Armenia's side.

The Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's request to help Armenia has forced Kremlin to balance between its allied obligations and the unwillingness to become a party to the Karabakh conflict with the risk of aggravating relations with Turkey, political analysts believe.

Authorities fail to enforce the decree on helping the Karachais as a rehabilitated nation; for example, they have failed the gasification of some villages, Kady-Khodji Khalkechev, the head of the Congress of the Karachai People, has stated.

During the week from October 26 to November 1, 2020, no information was received about any casualties or wounded people during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

During the missile attack on the city of Shushi, the Persian Mosque "Goar Aga" of the 19th century was damaged, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh have reported.

Since the onset of the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, 91 civilians have perished, and 400 others wounded under shelling in Azerbaijani cities and villages, the country's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has stated.

By using phosphorus ammunition, Azerbaijan poses a threat of an environmental disaster, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has stated. The Azerbaijani MoD denies the use of phosphorus ammunition and blames the Armenian side for doing this.

The tradition of repression is returning into Russian politics, activists of the oppositional movements of Rostov-on-Don have stated at a picket in memory of victims of political repressions.

Yevgenia Babayan, an 85-year-old resident of Gadrut, has stated that she had been forcibly taken from her home by Azerbaijani militaries to Baku, where she was subjected to inhuman treatment.

Azerbaijani troops are shelling Stepanakert; the central marketplace and a residential area came under fire, rescuers have noted, adding that the data on victims is being specified.

In the course of the election campaign, brawls and scandals of supporters of the ruling party with the opposition were often registered in Georgia; administrative resources were used; attempts to bribe voters and put pressure on civil servants were recorded, the local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has stated.

Today, the positions of Azerbaijani troops deployed in three districts are shelled by artillery; at night the fire in the Karabakh conflict zone was delivered, among other weapons, from missile launchers, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), has condemned Ramzan Kadyrov's statements about the French President, Emmanuel Macron, for his refusal to condemn caricatures on Prophet Muhammad. The head of Chechnya has demanded from LDPR leader to apologize for his words and not interfere in religious matters.

About 150 families of forced migrants from North Ossetia live in Ingushetia in difficult conditions; but instead of providing them with new housing, authorities are making attempts to evict them from emergency barracks, human rights defenders assert.

The Azerbaijani militaries have used phosphorus ammunition to set fire to forests, where civilians of Nagorno-Karabakh are hiding from shelling, the Ombudsperson of Armenia has stated. After the shelling by the Armenian party, forests in the Goranboy District have caught fire, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

At their meeting in Geneva, the heads of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of Armenia and Azerbaijan agreed not to attack peaceful settlements in the Karabakh conflict zone.

On October 30, the annual rally in memory of the victims of political repression in Volgograd was replaced by a symbolic laying of flowers. Pensions and benefits are not enough for a decent living, the descendants of those repressed, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", assert.

Dagestani MMA fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov wished the French President humiliation for insulting the feelings of Muslims. These words can be perceived by his fans as a call for violence, the Russian TV presenter, Ksenia Sobchak, has pointed out to the fighter.