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The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation dismissed complaints filed by five residents of Ingushetia, sentenced to long terms of imprisonment in a case on plotting of terror acts at the French Embassy in Moscow in 2017.

Today, residents of Khasavyurt have gathered in front of the "Gazprom" branch building and demanded to resume the supply of gas to their houses. Law enforcers arrived at the place of the spontaneous protest.

On the eve of a picket organized by the opposition "Musavat" Party, law enforcers detained 12 activists, including a party leader. At least 15 people were detained during the protest action.

The Georgian Church refused relatives of a young man who was killed in a road traffic accident to carry out an Orthodox funeral service over him. The priests referred to the fact that the killed man was a member of another religious organization.

Shepherds Zurab Tukhiashvili and Ramaz Zardishvili were detained on the border by Russian border guards, the State Security Service of Georgia repored.

Maya Gomuri, Omar Sekhniashvili and Mirza Liparteliani, who received injuries during the dispersal of a rally near the Georgian Parliament in June this year, have been declared victims.

The delegates of the Congress of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) have treated the change of the republic's borders as the greatest injustice. The Chechen residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" stated that the demand to cancel the border agreement is pointless and provocative.

Tofig Yagublu, an activist of the "Musavat" Party, was tortured after detention and now receives threats of execution for his oppositional activities, his daughter Nigyar Khazi has stated.

Chingiz Akhmadov, an employee of the "Grozny" TV Channel, has repeatedly accused Tumso Abdurakhmanov of lying in stating possible accomplices in the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin. Journalists were offered a false hypothesis about the non-Chechen origin of the Khangoshvili's killer.

Timur Khinchagov died in a hospital in the Leningrad Region shortly after he got into some power structure, his sister, Kaira Khinchagova, has stated. In her opinion, her brother was beaten up by law enforcers.

More than half of families in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) are dissolved; and up to 50% of marriages in Northern Caucasus end in divorces, the Muftis noted at a conference in Nalchik. Islamic clergymen have associated the problem with irresponsible attitude to marriage, non-observance of Islamic precepts, and domestic violence.

Ovsep Petoyan, a spiritual pastor of the Armenian Catholic community of Qamishli, and his father were shot dead in the north-east of Syria. The responsibility for the killings was claimed by the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

A suspected assassinator of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, could escape to Chechnya, the "Baza" Telegram channel reports.

Russian designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev reproached Ramzan Kadyrov for his calls to punish severely the authors of negative posts about Chechnya. The critical appeal of the blogger is written with an emphasized correct tone, Facebook users note.

Law enforcers released oppositionist Arzuman Gurbanov after he had written an explanatory note about his alleged calls for participation in an unsanctioned rally. Arzuman Gurbanov said that law enforcers demanded from him to stop criticizing the Azerbaijani authorities on social networks.

Chingiz Akhmadov, Director of the "Chechnya Today" Agency, has posted a video on the Instagram accusing Tumso Abdurakhmanov of lying. He quoted the blogger's saying about people from Chechnya who might have been involved in the murder in Germany of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. According to Abdurakhmanov, the Chechen authorities have launched a new campaign aimed to discredit him.

Students and teachers took part in the procession along streets of Yerevan. They demand resignation of Araik Arutyunyan, the head of the Ministry of Education.

Celebrations of National Unity Day and anniversary of the October Revolution in Southern Russia; mass protests in Georgia and Armenia; start of trial on major fire in Rostov-on-Don; rally of former "Electrozink" worker in Vladikavkaz, – read about these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 4-10, 2019, in a review prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Threats, intimidation in social networks, publication of intimate life facts of the women engaged in Georgian politics have become a norm, says the report of the non-governmental organization (NGO) "International Transparency-Georgia".

A court in France sentenced Khasanbek Turchaev, a native of Chechnya, to 10 years in prison, after finding him guilty of taking part in warfare in Syria on the side of a terrorist organization.