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On the third day after reports about an attack on a police checkpoint in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced that the republic's authorities are able to prevent terror acts while planned.

One of the men suspected in an attack on policemen in Chechnya arrived in the republic from Barnaul after he had changed his name and surname. Meanwhile, both of the killed assailants were not members of the armed underground, law enforcers believe.

At a hearing held on November 20 at the Tbilisi City Court, Turkish citizen Mustafa Emre Çabuk, accused at home of aiding and abetting terrorism, pleaded not guilty and called on the Court to grant him refugee status.

The leader of Chechnya has declared the need to transfer the remains of Joseph Stalin to Georgia for burial.

The Election Commission for the Astrakhan Region has accepted the documents submitted by the regional branch of the "PARNAS" Party, which members initiated a referendum on direct elections of municipality heads.

The health state of Ukrainian citizen Pavel Grib, who is being kept under arrest at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Krasnodar Territory on the charge of terrorism, is deteriorating. However, warders prohibit transferring necessary medicines to him, reported the father of the prisoner.

The 11th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki" has been completed in Sukhumi. This year, organizers have refused to award Festival Grand Prix because of lack of professional level to be shown by festival films.

On November 20, the Presidium of the Bar Association suspended the powers of advocate Yalchin Imanov; besides, the Presidium decided to go to court to completely stop Imanov's status as an advocate and expel him from the Bar. Yalchin Imanov has noted that he will take legal steps to restore his status.

On November 20, the Volgograd Regional Court upheld the arrest of Yuri Golder, a member of the City Human Rights Council, said his advocate Sergey Kunitsky.

Chechen policemen have detained a resident of the village of Samashki, Achkhoi-Martan District, for drinking alcohol. He and several other persons are kept in the gym of the village of Khimoi, the relatives of the detainee report.

Dagestani law enforcers have taken away from Khalimat Alkhotova, who had returned from Syria to Russia, a document on her voluntary surrender. Now, policemen extort money from parents of the girls returning to Dagestan.

In Kiev, Magomed Dukuzov, who had been on the international wanted list, has been detained, the spokeswoman of Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported, adding that Dukuzov was accused of involvement in the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the "Forbes" magazine.

Naira Gelashvili, the head of the "Caucasian Home" Centre for Cultural Interrelations, has refused from the "Tolerance Defender" Award in protest against granting this award to Giga Bokeriya, the leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM). However, the head of the Council on Religions under the Office of the Georgian Ombudsperson believes that the award was granted fairly.

Fyodor Laptev, a volunteer of the Navalny's office and an LGBT activist, has told about his departure from Novocherkassk after law enforcers' threats to open a criminal case against him.

In Baku, a worker was killed in an explosion at the factory in the Lokbatan village of the Garadag District. Till present, he has not yet been identified, reported a source from the law enforcement agencies. According to the preliminary data, another person was injured.

Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia apply very different methods to prevent extremism due to the specific characteristics of the peoples who live in those republics. This was announced by participants of a scientific conference held in Moscow.

In 2017, the today's attack on policemen near the village of Roshni-Chu in the Urus-Martan District was preceded by at least one attack on law enforcers' checkpoints in Chechnya.

The men killed in the attack on policemen in the Urus-Martan District were residents of Ingushetia and the Altai Territory. They tried to seize the law enforcers' weapons, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya.

"Kunaki" film festival in Abkhazia; earthquake in Azerbaijan; arrival of more than 40 women and children in Grozny from Syria, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 13-19, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of November 13-19, 2017, at least three persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, two persons were killed and another was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.