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Arman Djandjugazyan has been sentenced to 22 years of imprisonment after killing a soldier from the Russian military base in Gyumri, reports today a court official.

Sonya Cherkesova, a resident of Nalchik, has recorded a video appeal in which she asked to transfer her son Aslan Cherkesov, sentenced for killing football fan Yegor Sviridov, out of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The woman claims her son is being tortured and she has no chance to visit him.

A car in which Ingush journalist Ruslan Chakhkiev was killed crashed into a parked truck, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports today. The truck was not properly equipped to be visible on the road, suggested users of the social networks.

Over the past day, the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone was violated 26 times, the Ministry of Defence for Azerbaijan reported.

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Ingushetia on the law on borders with Chechnya; outcomes of voting at presidential election in Georgia, – read about these and other events in the weekly review of the main events that happened in the Caucasus during the week from October 29 to November 4, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Musa Tsechoev and Ibragim Gutsariev, who left Ingushetia for Chechnya, are found, and their whereabouts are reported to their relatives, the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

At a meeting with students of the Dagestani State University, Abdurashid Magomedov, Dagestani Minister of Internal Affairs, announced that employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "had not been involved in the killing of Nabi and Gasangusein Gasanguseinov brothers

On November 4, in Krasnodar, activist Alexei Nikitin came out for a picket. In his hands, he was holding a poster reading: "Stop torturing people."

During the week from October 28 to November 4, 2018, nobody fell victim to 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 other open sources.

On November 4, in Nazran, the Ingush authorities organized a rally on the occasion of the National Unity Day, obliging, well in advance, the heads of state-run agencies and structures to ensure the attendance. Opponents of the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border also came to the same square. They decided to declare their demands by means of solo pickets.

Two members of the grouping that was preparing terror acts were shot dead in Ganja, the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has reported.

During the past week, The Azerbaijani militaries carried out 100 attacks on the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Armen Sargsyan has signed the amnesty law that covers more than 600 people and was adopted by the Parliament.

A presentation of the first three episodes of the cartoon serial "Masters' Aul" about the adventures of a city teenager in a mountainous aul (village) took place in Makhachkala. The authors have promised to organize shows in Dagestani cinemas.

A colony warden is exerting psychological pressure and claims bribes, Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), told his relatives.

After the meeting of the head of Chechnya with the elder Mukhazhir Nalgiev in Ingushetia and their mutual apologies, a member of the Nalgiev family visited Grozny and thanked Kadyrov for his rendered respect.

Firudin Zeinalov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, and six other persons detained after clashes with the police at the sanctuary in Ganja, were sentenced to prison terms ranging from a year and four months to three years.

The Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia may issue a different verdict on the Chechen-Ingush border than the Ingush CC; and it couldn't be reconsidered, lawyers say. They have noted that the decision taken by the Ingush CC is mandatory for execution by the regional authorities.

Within the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled for 27 times from machine guns from the territories near the "occupied villages," the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Employees of budgetary institutions and students of Grozny have told that they were obliged to come to the rally on November 4 on the occasion of the National Unity Day. It is planned that the rally will be 20,000 strong, the city Mayoralty has stated.