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The refusal to release Oyub Titiev under guarantees demonstrated the formal approach of the court, and the decision to leave him in a cage proved neglect of the European Court's recommendations, stated Ilya Novikov, an advocate of the rights defender.

Lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliev, who represents the interests of the World Congress of the Ingush People, has got anonymous threats in connection with the session of the Constitutional Court of Russia on the agreement with Chechnya.

At least nine Saint Petersburg activists were detained in the city centre during pickets in support of Ingush residents protesting against the agreement on the border with Chechnya.

Supporters and opponents of the anime festival, disrupted in Makhachkala under the pretext of "opposing debauchery," reproached each other with indifference to massive violations of human rights, law enforcers' abuses, and kidnappings in Dagestan.

A resident of the village of Yandare in the Nazran District was shot dead in his house. The victim was a former policeman who served his sentence for a murder, reported a source.

Activists from the "Vesna" art group who hung a banner declared that they had "handed over" to Ingushetia the bridge named after Akhmat Kadyrov to replace the Ingush lands transferred to Chechnya.

In Stavropol, the court has dismissed an appeal filed by of Maxim Lapunov about the refusal to institute criminal proceedings on a beating in Chechnya.

During the week of November 19-25, 2018, no one 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.

According to the Judge, Svetlana Gannushkina, the chair of the "Civil Assistance Committee", who acted as a guarantor for Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev, is biased, since she is his colleague and friend.

On November 25, on the air of the Chechen TV Channel, a resident of the Avtury village called a mistake his post with the video criticizing employees of a local medical institution. The story on the local TV Channel continued the practice of public apologies in the republic.

Nigmatul Radjabov, an imam of a Makhachkala mosque, was detained at the entrance to the city. The imam was informed that he was included in the police preventive registration list as an extremist and was wanted.

The anime festival, which was to be held at the Avar Theatre in Makhachkala, was disrupted. Its organizer Saida Tuchalova had been kept at a police station for more than three hours. According to journalist Svetlana Anokhina, the directorate of the Avar Theatre and the organizers were bombarded with threats.

During the "No to the 'United National Movement'" actions, activists called on people to vote at the second round of the election for a candidate supported by the ruling "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" Party.

Verdict in the case on an attack on a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Makhachkala; award to Oyub Titiev of the Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law; end of the trial in the case against the former head of the Kizlyar District of Dagestan; telethon of Hayastan All-Armenian Fund to raise funds for Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia; arrest of rapper Husky in Krasnodar, ‑ see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 19-25, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The visit of Nagorno-Karabakh President Bako Saakyan to Moscow on November 24 undermines efforts for the peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict and may lead to an unpredictable development of the situation, states the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Azerbaijan.

Chechens have no "mono-ethnic region" in Dagestan, and it is a big problem. This has been declared by State Duma member Buvaisar Saitiev at the Congress of Chechens of Dagestan held in Khasavyurt. The statement voiced by the State Duma member has alarmed Dagestani users of social networks, and they have pointed out the danger of aggravation of the territorial dispute and the outbreak of conflict.

The police are engaged in investigation into an assassination attempt on Mashidat Omaraskhabova, Meritorious Artist of Dagestan, who got a bullet wound near her house in Makhachkala.

On November 24, participants of the rally, led by Nikol Pashinyan, marched through nine out of twelve administrative districts of the Armenian capital. Nikol Pashinyan called the march unprecedented.

In the week from November 18 to 24, the Azerbaijani armed forces fired 2000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

After a publication of a video, in which Chechen young men and women demonstrate bottles with drinks, law enforcers identified and detained those young people. They were set free only several days later, relatives of the detainees reported.