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On Wednesday, November 19, the monitoring tour conducted by the OSCE mission on the troops contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh passed without incidents, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

The information about sending 100 recruits from Chechnya for taking service in the Pacific Fleet is untrue, the Military Commissariat (MC) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has postponed the consideration of the appeal against the placement of the "Don Women" Union on the Registry of Foreign Agents until December 9, because of the absent of a number of documents.

On November 17, in Dagestan, a 54-year-old resident of Makhachkala was detained. He is suspected of killing his 21-year-old daughter.

Khadija Ismayilova, an employee of the Azerbaijani service of Radio Liberty, could not leave the country for taking part in the hearing of the Helsinki Commission of the US Congress, as she received no answer to her request addressed to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).

Two power agents were wounded during a special operation conducted in the Sunzha District of Chechnya. The bodies of all those killed in the operation have been identified, said a law enforcement source.

Making decision on resettlement of the residents who have left their settlement of Vremenny in Dagestan and setting up a tent camp for them is protracted, residents have complained.

The capital of Armenia has launched 34th World Congress of the International Theatre Institute under the UNESCO under the motto: "New Voices and New Spectators: Time for Dialogue." It is attended by more than 300 delegates from Asia, Europe, America and Africa.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on November 15 the head of the Centre said that employees of the Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala tried to prevent the opening of the institution.

Gamid Gamidov, Director of the "Eastern Marketplace" in Makhachkala was wounded when resisting his kidnappers, said an investigator. In grave condition, Gamidov is now at the intensive care unit of the Republic's Clinical Hospital.

On Monday, six out of seven hunger-strikers in Karaman quitted the action and were replaced by other six persons – residents of the settlements of Tarki, Kyakhulai and Alburikent. The seventh protester of the action that began on November 10 – the pensioner Ibragim Magomedov – refused to stop the hunger strike.

As reported by a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, in the area of the administrative border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, where four suspected militants were killed during a special operation, power agents continue searching for members of the armed underground.

As announced by the press service of the Lefortovo Moscow Court, the arrest of Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, accused of a fraud was extended until January 19, 2015.

The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) have recognized the implementation by Georgia of the first stage of visa liberalization and supported the transition to the second stage of negotiations about visa abolition, says the communiqué of the European Council on Foreign Affairs.

During the week from November 10 to November 16, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away one human life; no information about wounded or injured persons was received. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Residents of the settlement of Vremenny demand from the authorities of Dagestan to set up a commission for evaluating the damage caused to them during the special operation.

Incident with a military helicopter shot down in the Karabakh conflict zone; road traffic accident involving a motorcade of the Dagestani leader; law passed in the Astrakhan Region abolishing the direct election of the Mayor of Astrakhan; awarding Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to political prisoners of Azerbaijan; launch of the third power unit of Rostov NPP; attack on the Prime Minister of Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 10-16, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Every month schools of Ingushetia will hold solemn line-ups, which will mandatorily perform the anthems of Ingushetia and the Russian Federation, the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov has announced.

The ruling coalition "Georgian Dream" will not be able to initiate impeachment of President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, who is now in confrontation with the Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

Law enforcers have managed to detain in hot pursuit a car with people who committed an attack on the Prime Minister of Abkhazia Beslan Butba.