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A Russian citizen detained in Tbilisi on November 21 has confessed to storing weapon, but denies any contacts with the persons killed in a special operation. This has been reported by Georgian Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili.

During an antiterrorist operation held in Tbilisi, law enforcers detained Russian citizen Said Dudaev, reported the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office. The information about the killing of Akhmed Chataev in the special operation is under verification, announced the US Ambassador to Georgia.

The case of Arthur Ushaev and Ruslan Namatov, accused of attacking servicemen in Chechnya under the command of Shamil Basaev and Khattab in 2000, has been sent to the court.

A resident of Ingushetia, who joined militants in Syria, continues fighting against the authorities of the country, investigators have reported.

At the All-Russian Congress of Human Rights Defenders held in Moscow, participants have adopted the resolution on violations of human rights in Chechnya and the need to abolish the law on foreign agents and the Chief Department for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In his video appeal to participants of the Congress of Human Rights Defenders, Ramazan Djalaldinov, a resident of the Chechen village of Kenkhi, has complained of his unsuccessful attempts to meet Russia's Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova and report to her about violations of his fellow villagers' rights.

During the week from November 20 to November 26, 2017, at least two people suffered in 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.

A man suspected of attacking policemen in the Region has been arrested. In the town of Kotelnikovo, policemen were attacked under a scenario similar to the attack on a policeman committed in Dagestan on the same day, reported political analyst Andrei Serenko.

Special operation in Tbilisi; fire in Batumi hotel; detention of Suleiman Kerimov in France; shoot-out as a result of business partners' conflict in Dagestan; verdict to Umar Djabrailov accused of hooliganism; protest actions of defrauded housing co-investors in Krasnodar and Volgograd, – read these news storiesin the review of the main events in the Caucasus for the week of November 20-26, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Three awards of the International Film Festival in Gijon (Spain) were granted to Anna Urushadze's film "Scary Mother".

Aniuar Geduev, a free style wrestler from Kabardino-Balkaria has accepted the proposal of the Iranian club "Bimekh Razi". He will fight as a member of the team at the World Club Championship in Tehran on December 7-8.

Polina Bogusevich, a 14-year-old Muscovite, has won the International Song Contest "Junior Eurovision-2017" that was held in Tbilisi. The participant from Georgia took the second place.

The "Christie's" Auction House, which has put up the 1841 Imam Shamil's dagger for the auction, has failed to publish evidence of its authenticity, historians have noted. In case of real historical value, in their opinion, such exhibits should be purchased for Russian museums.

Akim Kuliev, suspected of setting fire to the building of the district administration in Dagestan, is tortured and "cut his belly open," Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Russian mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, has written in his Instagram.

A rally of defrauded housing co-investors into five residential complexes in Volgograd was sanctioned for 200 participants; however, it was attended by 30 people more, the organizers have reported. The protesters demanded to finish building their houses.

When amending the general plan of Sochi, officials mislead townspeople and hide the true state of affairs with the city development, said the participants in the meeting of activists, who are against public hearings on the general plan.

The Makhachkala Airport is last major asset of Suleiman Kerimov and his family in Dagestan, while his charity projects the businessman implements mainly in Southern Dagestan, the Dagestani journalists, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

The Azerbaijani militaries have violated the ceasefire in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The entrance to the territory of Georgia is closed for residents of Dagestan and Chechnya after the special operation in Tbilisi, users of social networks report.

In the evening on November 24, a major fire broke out in Batumi, the capital of Adzharia, in the five-star "Leogrand" Hotel. Tonight the fire was extinguished. According to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), 11 people perished in the fire; three fire-fighters have also suffered. In total, 21 persons were hospitalized.