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Twelve seamen from the arrested ships of the Dagestani Shipping Company, who are on hunger strike in Astrakhan, have accused customs of arbitrary behaviour and asked the acting head of Dagestan Vladimir Vasiliev to help them.

Since November 15, relatives of Zaur Shamsudinov, a detained resident of Dagestan, cannot obtain information from police about his whereabouts. He is kept at the police station, they suppose.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has refused to change the verdict to six supporters of the "Muslim Unity" movement, having found them guilty of resisting the police in Nardaran. The defence treats the consideration of the cassation as formal.

Law enforcers have detained Sabir Akmurzaev, Alaudin Yakupov and Arsen Kacharbaev, residents of the village of Novo-Dmitrovka in Dagestan, after planting drugs and ammunition into their house during searches, their relatives assert.

The caught dolphins were kept in awful conditions, the Branch of the Russian Frontier Service for the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the major river) has reported.

A body of an Azerbaijani soldier found dead on the border with Armenia has been transferred to Azerbaijan with the mediation of agents from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

In Chechnya, restrictions on the sale of alcoholic drinks forced a number of entrepreneurs to close their businesses, but did not prevent the illegal trade in alcoholic beverages, reported local residents.

A resident of Rostov-on-Don has appealed to the Tver District Court of Moscow with a claim for 543,000 roubles against the McDonald's Company about compensation for moral and material harm for hot coffee spilled on him at a cafe. This was reported by advocate Pyotr Dombrovitsky.

The managers of the "Assorti" Supermarket in Grozny have explained that they would stop selling alcohol beverages in the contest with the onset of the Muslim month of Rabi-al-Awal and as a sign of supporting the anti-alcohol policy pursued in the region.

The authorities have started recognizing the problem of exporting children from Azerbaijan to the territory controlled by the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS) (banned in the Russian Federation by the court); however, quite a lot of intensive work is needed to solve the problem. This was reported by the Meydan TV.

At the Christie's Auction, the Imam Shamil's dagger, made approximately in 1841, has been sold for 548,700 pounds sterling (731,000 US dollars).

The persecution of Akim Kuliev, which was reported by Khabib Nurmagomedov, an MMA fighter, was launched because of the desire to win authorities' favour of some high-ranking power agent in the Rutul District of Dagestan, Kuliev's relatives have stated.

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.