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On December 1, the Stepanakert Press Club presented a brochure and granted certificates to participants of the first phase of the project of studying the basics of civil journalism and public activity for non-working women.

For the first time ever, Nagorno-Karabakh hosted joint exercises of Karabakh and Armenian militaries. They mastered how to react jointly to enemy's penetration into Nagorno-Karabakh.

The second boy wounded in a mass teenagers' brawl in Tbilisi has died. This was reported by Avtandil Imedadze, the head of the republic's hospital, the "InterPressNews" reports.

Rescuers have found the body of a tourist from the Moscow Region in the mountains. They handed it over to the policemen in Nalchik.

The agreement with the European Union (EU) embodies the Armenia's multi-vector foreign policy, and in no conflict with its membership in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), participants of the parliamentary hearings have stated.

Within the case of Ruslan Rakhaev, a former deputy head of the OVD (Interior Division) of Cherkessk, accused of beating a detainee to death, an ambulance doctor has been questioned. She told that when she tried to save Dakhir Djankezov, she heard his ribs crunching, while, according to policemen, the man suddenly fell down from his chair and fainted.

The registration centres that control the firearm circulation give conflicting data about the submachine guns, which, according to investigators, were owned by members of the "Islamic State" (IS, banned in Russia) unit created in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). This was stated by defendants' advocates. The court agreed to deliver the submachine guns into the courtroom and disassemble them on the spot.

The call of North-Ossetian officials to attract young Ingushes living in the republic to the "Mashuk" Forum has caused some resonance. Deputies from North Ossetia and Ingushetia came into dispute about the situation of Ingushes in the Ossetian society.

On November 22, armed people took Zelimkhan Dikaev away from his home; he has not returned yet, his relatives told the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Makhachkala court has transferred Akim Kuliev, who has complained about torture after his arrest under the case of setting the district administration on fire, under house arrest. Two other figurants in the case remain at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Four suspected terrorists stayed in Georgia illegally, the Minister of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported. At the request of the Georgian authorities, FBI experts provide assistance to investigators, the US Ambassador announced.

Akhmed Chataev, wanted in Russia and included in the sanctions list of the United States, has committed a suicide bombing during a special operation carried out in Tbilisi on November 22, the Georgian State Security Service reported.

On November 30, a magnitude 3.2 tremor was registered in the Shatoi District of Chechnya. No information about casualties and destruction has been reported.

400 young Chechens will take their regularly military service in the units of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), stationed in the Southern Military District; and 100 others – in the units of the Russian National Guard (Natsgvardia), the Military Commissariat of Chechnya has stated.

In the final match of the Russian Cup in freestyle wrestling, the Dagestani team defeated the team of the Crimea with a score of 8:0.

Akim Kuliev, a resident of Dagestan, injured himself in a cell of the SIZO (pre-trial prison); this is shown by a video, posted on the YouTube on November 30. Kuliev refused from his evidence given under torture, said his advocate.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the decision to deport an 18-year-old native of Dagestan, suspected of having ties with terrorists, to Russia.

The Supreme Court (SC) has appointed a compensation of 15,500 laris to be paid by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to about 20 LGBT activists, who suffered during a rally in Tbilisi in 2013.

This week, "Ecolife" activists have begun building a centre for homeless animals near the dwelling settlement of Talgi near Makhachkala. The land plot was allocated by the authorities at the request of Professor Djalal Saidbegov, a native of Dagestan, who works at the University of Rome, an "Ecolife" source has stated.

The Georgia's Constitutional Court (CC) has abolished criminal punishment for consumption of marijuana and cannabis, finding it an encroachment on the freedom to choose the type of rest and relaxation.