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Anonymous morality advocates have demanded from the Ingush Khaniev teip (family clan) to "stop" Ragda Khanieva, a participant of a TV show. Netizens (network users) speak out against persecuting Khanieva.

The decision on the proposal voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov concerning the removal of checkpoints in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) cannot be made without the involvement of ministers of the power block, military experts believe.

The public condemnation of Aslanbek Yusupov, a father of many children, who complained about his difficult living conditions, contradicts the Chechen traditions, local residents comment on a TV story which continues the trend to condemn persons voicing complaints.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 22 times within 24 hours, including from sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

The police drew up protocols against 28 activists detained on Tuesday, and they were released under recognizance not to leave. During the dispersal of the rally, two protesters and a journalist were injured.

Zulfiya Abdulkadirova, a resident of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, appealed to Ramzan Kadyrov with a request to help return her 20-year-old daughter, who had fled to Chechnya against the will of her parents and married.

After a "warning conversation" with officers of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Khusain Gatsaev, a resident of the Naur District, apologized on the air of the "Grozny" TV Channel, that he provided occult services. Despite the numerous detentions of magicians and their public apologies, interest in occultism in the republic does not fade away, authors of the TV report admit.

The working group of Azerbaijani human rights defenders, NGO activists and lawyers has released an updated list of political prisoners including 112 names. Cases of other 11 prisoners remain under the working group's monitoring.

Relatives of Azamat Ibragimov, who disappeared for two weeks during his trip to Chechnya, have met him in Montreal.

Russian authorities fail to investigating the torture of Maxim Lapunov in Chechnya, but the communication of his complaint by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) should launch this process, the advocate has stated. Human rights defenders continue evacuating gays from Chechnya, the Russian LGBT Network has informed.

Tbilisi protesters have held a mass march along Rustaveli Avenue and gathered in the square near the parliament building. They demand early parliamentary elections under the proportional election system.

Many residents of Dagestan express their support for the arrested journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, but only a few people are holding solo pickets demanding his release. People are afraid of becoming figurants of a trumped-up case after Gadjiev, Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" weekly, has stated.

Asif Yusifli, Member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been released after five years in prison. He insists that he had fallen victim to political persecution.

In his dispute with the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, Chingiz Akhmadov, Director of the "Chechnya Today" News Agency, has unconvincingly justified the authorities' position and uses personal insults, social network users have noted. Some YouTube users have supported the blogger in his dispute with Chechen authorities about the reasons of unemployment in the republic.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint of Maxim Lapunov about torture in Chechnya caused by his sexual orientation. The Russian authorities should submit their position to the ECtHR by March 12, 2020. The complaint filed in May this year was accepted to consideration within record time.

A Moscow court has ordered Yan Rachinsky to pay a second fine, which was imposed on him after the check conducted by the Ingush FSB Branch. The total fines imposed on the "Memorial" by the outcomes of that check amounted to 1.5 million roubles.

"Educational conversations" are unlikely to help; such people [alcohol addicts] need to be treated, users have noted in their comments on another video clip showing a Chechen policeman reproaching the detainees for using psychotropic drugs and appearing drunk in public places.

At the request of the White House official, for fear of worsening US-Turkish relations, Senator Lindsay Graham blocked the Senate vote on the resolution recognizing the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire.

During the week of November 18-24, 2019, no casualties or victims were fixed in 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.

Power dispersal of demonstrators in Tbilisi; termination of the protest action held by a father of the shepherds killed in Dagestan; story with the involvement of a Stavropol law enforcer in the murder of a Syrian man; release from SIZO of Ingush journalist Rashid Maisigov; arrest of former Elista Mayor Vyacheslav Namruev, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 18-24, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".