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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.

An expert, who on behalf of the OSCE investigates human rights violations in Chechnya, has got materials with reports of persecuted members of the LGBT community. Kirill Koroteev, the legal director of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has expressed his doubt that the OSCE investigation will be effective.

Nodar Burdiladze, the head for the election office of Grigol Vashadze in the Oni Region in the north-west of Georgia, was stabbed in his house after a quarrel with activists of the ruling party. This was announced at the today's briefing by MP Nika Meliya, a leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party.

The State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan reported on the suppression of the terrorist financing channel in Syria, through which 500,000 US dollars had been transferred.

A special operation on the border between Chechnya and Ingushetia was sanctioned by Moscow and used to prevent Ingush activists from entering the disputed territories, noted rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov. The conflict resolution is entrusted to the local authorities and the special operation is not connected with it, believes Sergey Goncharov, the president of the International Association of Veterans of the Alpha Anti-Terror Group.

The Tbilisi Court of Appeal did not cancel the verdict in absentia to Mikhail Saakashvili, the former President of Georgia, accused of beating MP Valeri Gelashvili.

Today, blogger Ruslan Yandiev and Magomed Mutsolgov (a man with the same name as the head of the organization "Mashr"), detained in Nazran and arrested for 5 days, have left the IVS (temporary detention facility).

Rapper Husky, detained during his concert in Krasnodar, has been charged with disobeying the police, refusing medical examination, and organizing a mass stay of people in public places. This has been reported today by his advocate.

Over the past day, the Azerbaijani forces were shelled 22 times, reported the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan.

In Sochi, an outlet of the storm sewer system, where a boy drowned in the summer, has not yet been removed, and no fences have been installed on it, local residents report.

Advocate who defend activists face pressure, disciplinary actions, and threats of expulsion from the bar association. This opinion was voiced by rights defenders and oppositionists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Law enforcers insulted the feelings of the activists who wanted to hold a subbotnik (a volunteer cleanup day) on the lands handed over to Chechnya, stated members of the Ingush Committee of National Unity.

If the Constitutional Court of Russia supports the agreement on the border with Chechnya signed by Yunus-Bek Evkurov and Ramzan Kadyrov, protest actions will be resumed, and the question of the Prigorodny District will also be raised. This was stated by members of the Ingush Committee of National Unity at a press conference held in Nazran on November 21.

Abulfaz Sadygbeili, the head of the youth organization of the Azerbaijani opposition "Musavat" Party, is suspected of fraud. The activist is being persecuted for political reasons, his colleagues from the party believe.