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In Marneuli, three law enforcers stopped Kakha Kvaratskheliya, a 50-year-old supporter of Grigol Vashadze, checked his ID and when they learned that he would vote for Grigol Vashadze, they beat him for that, reported the spokesman of the Grigol Vashadze's office in Marneuli, with reference to the victim.

Over the past day, the armed forces of Armenia 26 times violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line of the troops, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reported.

The march through most of the Yerevan districts sums up the "velvet revolution," announces Nikol Pashinyan, the acting Prime Minister of Armenia.

In Ingushetia, a quarter of the employable population remains without work. In total, in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the unemployment rate is 9.9%, the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal State Statistics Service) reports.

Activists from Kabardino-Balkaria hold an annual charity event for the sale of the Circassian calendars for 2019. The organizers decided to spend the proceeds on repairing the house of a Syrian repatriates.

Maria Yuristova, a friend of Sochi resident Tatiana Ershova, has partially retracted her earlier testimony given at trial in the case against the Ukrainian citizen Pavel Grib and refuted the prosecutors' version. Tatiana Ershova and Pavel Grib did not discuss any plans of terror act and the political issues were not the main topic of their conversations, the witness stated.

The court decided to detain a man suspected of attempting to assassinate Nodar Burdiladze, the head of the Grigol Vashadze's election office in the Oni District. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Georgia stated that the attack did not have any political background.

On November 23, the Moscow District Military Court found Ibragim and Adam Gakaev guilty of plotting explosions during the FIFA Confederations Cup and sentenced each of them to seven years of imprisonment.

Starting from early 2018, Russian mercenaries from the "Wagner Private Military Company", who took part in military operations in eastern Ukraine and Syria, have been performing tasks in two African countries: Sudan and the Central African Republic, a fighter from the private military company has told BBC.

In Baku, a court found lawyer and blogger Aslan Ismailov guilty of hooliganism and sentenced him to a year of correctional labour and a fine of 900 US dollars. Aslan Ismailov associated the prosecution with his criticism of the authorities.

Today, in Krasnodar, Alexei Nikitin has held a solo picket with the demand to stop torturing detainees and close a special detention centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The picketer has stated that law enforcers detained him, but the police claim that they simply had a conversation with Alexei Nikitin.

Units of the Armenian armed forces 28 times violated the ceasefire regime by using large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

The money raised at the annual telethon of the Hayastan all-Armenian Fund will be used to implement programmes in Nagorno-Karabakh and create jobs in the communities of Armenia.

The Ministries of Foreign Affairs for France and Germany included Oyub Titiev in the list of laureates of the Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law for 2018, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

On the grenade seized from Temirlan Machalikashvili killed during his detention in the Pankisi Gorge, experts found particles of his DNA, reported the Georgian State Security Service. Malkhaz Machalikashvili, a father of the killed man, pointed out inconsistencies in the official version concerning the details of the special operation and said the grenade had been planted to his son after his murder.

A man, who had been in labour slavery in Dagestan since 2013, was released and returned to Moscow, reported the anti-slavery movement "Alternative".

The decision pronounced by the Strasbourg Court in the case on repeated gang rape of a girl from Dagestan should push the Russian authorities to improve the mechanism for investigating sexual crimes, believe female rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The decision on suspension of the criminal case on the use of violence against activists and journalists in the Sari Tag District of Yerevan in July 2016 has been challenged in court. Representative of the victims demanded to resume the investigation and punish the guilty persons.

Activist Mikhail Anisenko held a solo picket with the demand to return the benefits to residents of the region reduced in 2016 and provide tenants of dilapidated and damaged houses with new housing.

Nodar Burdiladze, the head for the election office of Grigol Vashadze in the Oni Region in the north-west of Georgia, underwent a serious surgery and was taken to a Tbilisi clinic for further medical treatment.