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Today, an oppositional rally was held in Tbilisi in the square in front of the Parliament, which stated "annexation of Abkhazia by Russia." The action was organized by activists of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM). According to various estimates, the rally was from 3 to 20 thousand strong.

Today, Madina Magomedova, the head of the "Flowers of Life" Children’s Care Centre in Makhachkala, has stated about the pressure of law enforcement bodies and illegal actions of power agents, who tried to disrupt the opening of the Centre.

The liquidation by Azerbaijani militaries of the Mi-24 helicopter in the flight over Nagorno-Karabakh, will not go unpunished, experts in Armenia believe. The measures in response to the destruction by Azerbaijani militaries of the Armenian Mi-24 helicopter will be "more than proportionate," rmenian Defence Minister Seiran Oganyan says.

Today, about 400 people gathered at a rally in memory of Eradil Asanov, who was shot dead at the building of the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Nogai District of Dagestan. The action took place in the village of Terekli-Mekteb, and its participants demanded to punish the persons responsible for the death of the young man.

In Grozny, law enforcers and representatives of the Muslim clergy held a series of inspections in the stores selling Islamic products, where they searched for the banned religious literature.

On November 14, at the trial in the case against Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of the Olympic facilities, the court questioned Sergey Sobolev, the head of the surgical ward of the city hospital No. 3. According to the witness, the defendant was brought for his medical examination in a depressed state and with multiple injuries, and he told the doctor that he had been tortured.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya is delaying issuing the records of court hearings on consideration of the appeals against the verdict in the case against Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus. This was reported by Pyotr Zaikin, an advocate of Ruslan Kutaev.

Asiyat Khabicheva, the Chair of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) of new composition, has sent an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which she claims that local authorities put pressure to members of the newly formed POC.

Allegations of the Azerbaijani police that Zokhrab Shikhaliev, a resident of the village of Djorat, was keeping weapons were untrue and unreliable. This was reported by relatives of the detainee.

Today, Meskhetian Turks have held a picket in front of the Georgia's Embassy in the United States, demanding to ensure conditions for their return to Georgia after their deportation 70 years ago.

Today, six witnesses in the case of terror acts in Volgograd have confirmed the defence's version of the absence of any links of the defendant Ibragim Magomedov with militants.

The Sakharov Prize, which has been awarded by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) to Azerbaijani political prisoners, was handed over to laureates' relatives.

The Azerbaijani party would not allow organizing the search of the crew of the helicopter shot down in the Karabakh conflict zone by shelling the site, David Babayan, the press secretary of the office of the head of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), has stated today.

Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Civil Movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) has challenged his conviction to the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan. His defence insists on the abolition of decisions of lower courts in Mamedov's case and his acquittal. However, Mamedov refused to petition for clemency, said his colleague Azer Gasymly.

A progress can be expected in the near future in international recognition of Abkhazia's independence, said the head of Abkhazia Raul Khajimba in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot".

The liquidation of the Mi-24 in the course of its training flight in Nagorno-Karabakh, was a provocation of the official Baku, said Galust Sahakyan, Speaker of the Armenian Parliament.

The information of the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about the death of one of the leaders of the ISIL Tarkhan Batirashvili (Abu Umar al-Shishani), posted on the Instagram network, is untrue, said Umar Idigov, the head of the NGO "Foundation of Caucasus Integration", and a resident of the village of Duisi in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge.

Activists of Circassian public organizations have appealed to the leadership of Poland asking to recognize the genocide of Circassians in the 19th century. The appeal was initiated by the International Organization "Patriots of Circassia", whose headquarters is in Istanbul.

Law enforcement bodies are putting pressure on clients of Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the Chair of the Stavropol Committee of Soldiers' Mothers "Prikumye Mothers", persuading to slander the rights defender, said Andrei Sabinin, one of her advocates.

The court has rejected the motion lodged by the defence of Ruslan Ionov, a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), accused of helping terrorists, and asking to soften his freedom restraint measure. The court has extended his arrest by two months.