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At the border between Dagestan and Azerbaijan, the situation with the passage of customs control has improved markedly after the protests of truck drivers. This was reported by truck drivers questioned by the "Caucasian Knot". According to them, the lines of heavy trucks on the border disappeared, and officials stopped to demand money.

On November 7, the Nasimi District Court of Baku considered the defence's petition to transfer the Azerbaijani journalist Afghan Mukhtarly from custody under the house arrest, Elchin Sadygov, his advocate, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Law enforcers have removed the restrictions imposed in the villages of Yandare and Ekazhevo after the militants' attack on the road-patrol service (DPS) block post.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal of Pavel Grib, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of terrorism, and left him in custody.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, actions committed by directors of the "Kingcoal" group of companies led to the bankruptcy of the Rostov coal enterprises, dismissals of thousands of miners, and wage arrears.

The Azerbaijani Court has dismissed the defence's motion to transfer Gezyal Bairamly, the deputy chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), under house arrest for health reasons.

The FSB has released a video with detentions of suspected members of the banned extremist movement "Artpodgotovka"* (Artillery Preparation). The detentions were also carried out in Southern Russia. According to the law enforcement agencies, one of the detainees confessed to plotting "revolutionary actions", while another said activists were preparing fireworks.

Today, rights defenders have reminded people that singer Zelimkhan Bakaev disappeared in Chechnya almost three months ago. The rights defenders demanded from the Russian authorities to answer questions about his whereabouts.

Today, during a protest action, about 500 students from the Yerevan State University (YSU) have stated they will not attend lectures until the bill to cancel a postponement from the army is withdrawn from the Parliament.

In the course of an attack on the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) checkpoint, a suicide bombing was committed by Islam Kushtov, a resident of the Karabulak town, law enforcers suggest. On November 6, in order to accurately identify the deceased suicide bomber, investigators sent the remains of his body to genetic examination.

Six and not five policemen were injured in an attack on a road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) checkpoint which occurred on November 5. One of the policemen died of the wounds he got, reported the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia.

Indiana has become the 48th US state that recognized the genocide of the Armenian people in the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century.

In Batumi, a schoolgirl from one of the public schools has complained to a school marshal about being sexually harassed by her teacher. The story has got wide resonance in Georgia against the background of a series of other stories about sexual harassment, made public by Georgian women in social networks as part of the international campaign #metoo against sexual violence.

Out of three assailants who attacked a road-and-patrol (known as DPS) block post in Ingushetia, two were killed and one was detained. This was reported by a source from the police. Residents of Karabulak suggest that the DPS block post was attacked in revenge for the death of Magomed Miziev, who was killed at the DPS block post on October 19.

In the town of Karabulak, law enforcers carried out raids in search of suspects involved in the attack on a road-and-patrol (known as DPS) block post. Rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov has treated those law enforcers' actions as senseless and ungrounded.

The causes of many today's conflicts in the Caucasus should be sought in the events that occurred in the autumn of 1917, said the scientists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

On November 5, the Chechen authorities announced a third-form pupil to be the winner of the contest for the best poem about Vladimir Putin; the girl advised the critics of the president "spit out saliva." Some local residents criticized the children's involvement in a political contest.

A feature movie "Keep working, Brothers!" about the life of Magomed Nurbagandov, a policeman, killed by militants, will be filmed in Dagestan for people's money, Pyotr Alyoshkin, the project initiator and the Producer General of the "Our Youth" Film Studio, has announced today.

During their five-day stay in Grozny, ophthalmologists from Turkey consulted more than a thousand people and made surgeries, the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry of Public Health has reported today. Local residents explained their desire to get to the Turkish doctors by the high quality of medical care and free-of-charge operation.

According to eyewitnesses, there were presumably two attackers. One of them ran into the building of the block post and threw a backpack onto the floor, after which an explosion occurred; the suicide bomber died on the spot. The second attacker fired back to law enforcers near the post.