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Azerbaijani opposition politician Gultekin Hajibeyli is not allowed to see her son at a Turkish deportation center. Turkish authorities have not provided official information on whether Hajibeyli will be deported to Azerbaijan.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has reduced the suspended sentence for the head of a budgetary institution in a case involving the embezzlement of 11 million rubles to seven years.

A video explaining the actions of a man fined for filming a drone attack on Kaspiysk serves as a stark reminder to residents of Dagestan of the consequences of publishing such videos.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit demanding that the homes and foreign cars of former Ingush Federal Tax Service employees Magomed and Ilyas Kushtov, suspected of abuse of power resulting in multi-million dollar damages, be forfeited to the state.

The court sentenced Stavropol resident Albert Elakaev to nine years in prison, finding him a participant in the 1999 attack by Shamil Basayev's group on Dagestan.

The drone strike threat issued in Chechnya last night has been cancelled.

Residents of Kurchatov Street in Krasnodar called on authorities to reconsider plans to build a highway on the site of a green recreation area near their homes. Their appeals to officials have gone unanswered, they complained.

Airport restrictions imposed due to flight safety concerns have been lifted in Vladikavkaz, Grozny, and Magas. The military has not recorded any drone attacks in the North Caucasus Federal District republics, and regional authorities have announced the end of the drone threat.

The military shot down drones in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky and four districts of the Rostov region.

A court sentenced a Baksan Vodokanal employee to eight months of restricted freedom after finding him guilty of poisoning city residents with tap water.

Namik Nabiyev from Azerbaijan is accused of transferring more than $28,000 to the Islamic State*, although he claimed to have been collecting donations.

A criminal case has been opened against a Rostov-on-Don resident who filmed drone attacks in the region. Three other people have been fined administratively for violating the ban.

Bishop Vrtanes Abrahamyan, head of the Artsakh (Karabakh) Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, attended a meeting with Prime Minister Pashinyan, where a group of clergy demanded the Catholicos' re-election. Karabakh refugees criticized Abrahamyan and called on him to resign.

The republic's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment reported that 484 dead seals were found on the Caspian Sea coast in Makhachkala and three districts of Dagestan. Experts say the animals show signs of suffocation.

Temporary restrictions on incoming and outgoing flights have been imposed at airports in Grozny, Magas, and Vladikavkaz. A drone strike threat has been issued in North Ossetia and Chechnya.

The court that sentenced Akhmed Pogorov, co-chair of the World Congress of the Ingush People, to nine years in prison on charges of organizing violence at a rally in Magas stripped him of his well-deserved titles and awards, but this did not affect the attitude of Ingushetia residents toward him.

On the 370th day of continuous protests, protesters outside the Georgian parliament thanked the authors and participants of the BBC investigation into the use of toxic substances against demonstrators.

The case against the Meydan TV journalists has been transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes. A preparatory hearing is scheduled for December 12.

A court in South Ossetia sentenced a local resident to 12.5 years in prison, accused of collaborating with the "Georgian side."

Gurgen Grigoryan, a native of Abkhazia who served in the Russian army, was killed in the Russian military operation zone in Ukraine.