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The Azerbaijani positions in the Karabakh conflict zone and in two villages on the border with Armenia were shelled 21 times within 24 hours, including from sniper rifles, Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

A member of the Orstkhoi teip (family clan) claimed that the disputed territories on the border with Ingushetia belonged to Chechnya. His statement provoked a negative reaction from Ingush users of Instagram.

The calls to kill, voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov, are undermining the authorities' prestige and can be perceived by subordinates of the head of Chechnya as a guide to action, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) have declared today in their statement to Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

A US court has sentenced Stanislav Lisov, a programmer from the city of Taganrog, to four years in prison, finding him guilty of cybercrimes. Lisov will be set free in a few months, since the court took into account the term already served by him.

Khafiz Babaly, an Azerbaijani investigative journalist, has become one of the laureates of the "Free Media-2019" Prize, awarded by the Norwegian Fritt Ord Foundation and the German ZEIT Foundation.

Chechnya is not very popular among foreign tourists; and the story of the public apology of the British blogger, Benjamin, will push away those few travellers who had planned a trip to the republic, Caucasian researchers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Committee against Repressions and Torture has appealed to international organizations urging them to pay attention to torture in Azerbaijan. Activists have also suggested conducting an expert investigation into the accident, in which Ogtai Gyulyalyev, the Committee coordinator, has suffered.

One week after the start of the action, the number of Makhachkala townspeople, who come to support Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the slain shepherd brothers, has reached 35. Law enforcers have for the first time detained the picketers.

The psychiatrist who behaved unethically after his patient, Vladislav Pogorelov, answered the question about his sexual orientation, was disciplinary punished, the Public Health Committee of the Volgograd Region has reported. The Committee has apologized to Pogorelov.

Criminal cases on the clash between protesters and law enforcers in Magas contain no specific facts, and the arrested persons are subjected to pressure, their advocates note.

Today, several persons have attacked Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Dagestani Coordinating Council of NGOs, sources report. Shamil Khadulaev himself has confirmed the incident.

In Tbilisi, despite the efforts of policemen to prevent a protest action, supporters of the opposition hung a symbolic lock on the fence of the government building and threatened to hold such actions every Thursday.

The German authorities granted refugee status to a widow and children of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge, who was killed in Berlin, Der Spiegel reported on November 20. Two nephews of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili were extradited from Sweden to Georgia, a brother of the killed man reported.

Boxing coach Pavel Deshevov, who was dismissed after a conflict with the principal of the Olympic Reserve School in Volgograd, asked President Vladimir Putin to pay attention to "corruption violations" in the region.

Fighters of the private military company known as "Wagner's PMC", including a former law enforcer from the Stavropol Territory, brutally tortured and then killed a deserter of the Syrian government forces, announced the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" on November 20 the result of its examination of massacre videos.

On November 20, in the regions of Azerbaijan bordering Russia, the law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan launched an operation to combat transnational crime and terrorist organizations.

Ten protesters accused of hooliganism and disobedience to police at the parliament building in Tbilisi were arrested; a fine was imposed on one of them; another received a warning.

Akhmed Dudaev, Director of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) has stated that the people, who record videos with an apologies to Ramzan Kadyrov, are not forced by anyone to do so; they "themselves decide to apologize."

The "Grozny" TV Channel has released a report on the detention of a Chechen woman for engaging in occult practices. According to the authors of the report, former and incumbent state servants were among those who used the services of the woman, who works as a nurse.

A Tbilisi court has arrested Giorgi Rurua, an investor in the oppositional Georgian TV Company "Mtavari Arkhi", for two months; he is accused of illegally carrying weapons. The businessman's defence will appeal against his arrest.