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During the week of November 12-18, 2018, at least one person was killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, the court has released from custody Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and obliged him to pay 1500 US dollars of fine for organizing an unsanctioned march in Baku.

Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, led a healthy lifestyle, helped people; he was a Muslim believer and could not be involved in the possession of marijuana. This has been reported today at trial by fellow villagers and rights defenders.

Today, Madina Omarova, Judge at the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala, has recognized Karim Kasumov guilty of assaulting a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent and sentenced him to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment on probation for two years.

Information about bombing committed by a female suicide bomber in Grozny; failed subbotnik on Ingush lands handed over to Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 12-18, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

An Austrian lawyer, chosen from among OSCE experts has taken up the checking reports about human rights violations in Chechnya, said Igor Kochetkov, the executive programme director of the Russian LGBT Network.

The shelling of military positions was carried out from the territories that Azerbaijan regards as occupied, states the report of the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD), not specifying, however, any shelling on the border with Armenia.

Members of Georgian motor clubs have organized a motor rally from Mtskheta to the village of Atotsi, Kareli District, in order to show their negative attitude to Russia's actions in Georgia. Up to 150 cars arrived to the border line from Tbilisi.

An employee of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), who interfered into a conflict that broke out among visitors of a cafe in Makhachkala, was killed during a shootout. Two more men were wounded.

Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and ten activists detained along with him have been accused of violating the rules of mass actions; they face up to two months of administrative arrest, the MIA has reported, while oppositionists assert that the detention of activists and the charges against them are unjustified.

Karina Spiridonova, the alleged suicide bomber, who blew herself up 75 meters from a checkpoint in Grozny, attended a school in a village in the Chelyabinsk Region, was raised in an incomplete family and was fond of pedagogy, some media have stated.

After the woman's self-explosion at a checkpoint in Grozny, the Russian and two foreign passports of Karina Spiridonova, a citizen of Adygea were posted on the Internet, as well as a note addressing Allah.

Ruslan Yandiev, a blogger, and Magomed Mutsolgov, a namesake of the head of the "Mashr" organization, were awarded with 5 days of administrative arrest, Ruslan Mutsolgov, the leader of the Ingush branch of the "Yabloko" Party, has stated.м

On Saturday, near the checkpoint in the outskirt of Grozny, an explosion occurred. In 2018, it was preceded by two other terror acts committed in Chechnya. The responsibility for the both earlier incidents was claimed by the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

About 100 people gathered at the police station and demanded to release the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), the head of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and other people detainees during the march in Baku.

The references to Chechnya will be removed from the table game, which has caused criticism because of the disrespectful reference to the prosecution of gays in the republic, the game designers have assured.

Law enforcers have detained activists Barakh Chemurziev and Akhmed Pogorov, who, together with other residents of Ingushetia, gathered today in the Sunzha District in order to go to the border with Chechnya to hold a subbotnik (a voluntary clean-up day) there.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has dismissed the complaint of the theologian Zulfugar Mikailov and 11 other convicted believers. The defence intends to appeal against the verdict at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The initiative of Ingush activists to organize a subbotnik in the territory that became a subject of dispute because of the border agreement with Chechnya is a challenge to the leadership of Chechnya, analysts have suggested, while lawyers point out that the political subtext of the subbotnik equates it to a rally.

The prosecutor has asked for two years in prison for Karim Kasumov, accused of attacking a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a rally of Alexei Navalny's supporters in Makhachkala; the victim's representative has demanded the maximum punishment for Kasumov.