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On Thursday, November 20, law enforcers found a cache in Dagestan with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with total power of 50 kilograms of TNT, reports the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The advocates of the Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov report that their client is illegally kept in custody despite the expiry of his arrest term. They are not allowed to visit him and fear that he may be pressed.

Amendments to the legislation on NGOs that assume that foreign donors may provide grants to the country's public associations only under a permit of the government have come into force in Azerbaijan. Mirvari Gakhramanly, the head of the Organization of Oil Workers' Rights Protection, said that the country has eliminated chance for independent NGOs to exist.

The composition of hunger-strikers has changed in Karaman: only Ibragim Yahyaev from the "second shift" continues his protest. The rest of them, who were hunger-striking since November 17, were replaced by other people. Now, the so-called "waiting list" of those ready to join the action includes more than 120 people.

Three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ranging from 5 to 10 kg of TNT equivalent were found and defused on Thursday near the federal highway "Kavkaz" in the territory of the Nazran District of Ingushetia.

A local resident, suspected of aiding militants, was detained in Nazran. He helped them with money, showed places, where they could hide from power agents and worked for them as a driver, investigators assert.

The absence of large-scale persecution of residents for their religious beliefs by law enforcement bodies is a major reason for stability in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) – this is the opinion of most participants in the discussion "KChR's Experience in Harmonizing Inter-Confessional Relations".

In the course of their regular monitoring visit to Gldani Prison No. 8, located in Tbilisi, employees of the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia found two beaten prisoners. The Ministry of Corrections knows nothing about the incident.

Starting November 14, the office of the public Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) in Baku is the venue of a hunger strike aimed to draw international attention to the detention in Nagorno-Karabakh of Azerbaijani citizens Dilgama Askerov and Shakhbaz Guliev, and the trial of them.

The Georgian Parliament is considering amendments to the Law "On Electronic Communications", prepared by the "Georgian Dream" Party faction. The new wording assumes to use the model of "two keys", that is, to provide access to citizens' personal data in parallel to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and data protection inspectors.

On November 18, Ibragim Magomedov, 55, one of the hunger-strikers in Karaman, decided to stop his protest action. He was replaced by Kamalutdin Badrutdinov, a resident of the village of Tarki. The health status of other hunger-strikers is normal, said Gamzat Khangishiev, a co-chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations.

At least 55 people were victims of the armed conflict in the North Caucasus in October 2014, of which 36 people were killed and 19 injured. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

The Sukhumi City Court has satisfied the prosecutors' motion to place in custody two residents of Abkhazia – Akhra Enik and Inal Avidzba – on suspicion of assaulting Beslan Butba, the Prime Minister of the Republic, said Djemal Gogiya, the head of the investigation department of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia.

During the latest session on the case of Imangazali Magomedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, accused of aiding militants and arms and drugs possession, his advocate tried to challenge the judge.

A suspect of helping members of the armed underground was detained by policemen in the village of Sernovodskoe, Sunzha District of Chechnya, where power agents are conducting special actions aimed at searching for militants.

According to updated information, recruits from Dagestan and North Ossetia, not from Chechnya, as reported earlier, will go to take their mandatory army service at the Pacific Fleet.

On November 18, a court in Krasnodar extended, until January 21, 2015, the arrest of Darya Polyudova, a "Rot Front" activist, accused of involvement in an extremist community. This was announced by Victor Chirikov, an activist of the Krasnodar branch of the Russian Democratic Movement "Solidarity", on his Facebook page.

In Chechnya, a criminal case has been opened against a 30-year-old local man suspected of killing his younger sister. Investigators do not exclude the version of an "honour killing".

On November 17, Abdusamad Gamidov, the Prime Minister of Dagestan, issued an instruction to accelerate the fulfilment of the orders of the leader of Dagestan on the allocation of land to residents of the settlements of Tarki, Kyakhulai and Alburikent.

After they met today their client at the Baku SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison), the advocates of the rights defender Intigam Aliev have decided to petition about his medical examination. They explained that the measure of his freedom restriction may be softened for medical reasons, confirmed by an examination.