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The commission set up for assessing the damage caused to residents of the settlement of Vremenny by the actions during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) has finished its work. Local residents complained about the actions of power agents who conducted the CTO.

During the week from November 24 to November 30, 2014, at least three persons perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run of the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by Orkhan Eyubzade, a young activist of the "Musavat" Party, sentenced to two years in prison, has been postponed indefinitely. His advocate told about worsening of the activist's health.

The repatriation process of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia should be accelerated; it is necessary to develop a step by step plan and discuss a possibility of granting dual citizenship to immigrants, said participants of the conference in Tbilisi.

Vladimir Ostapuk, the leader of the Ecological Council under the Mayor of Sochi, has sent a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to pay attention to the works leading to destruction of trees in Sochi.

The Pyatigorsk Garrison Military Court has upheld the decision of the investigator, who refused to initiate criminal proceedings against an agent of the local FSB department, whose crime was reported by Kurman-Ali Baichorov, the Imam of Kislovodsk.

The international organization in defence of the press "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has condemned the actions of the police, which questioned Turkhan Kerimov, an employee of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Liberty on November 28 in Baku.

On November 28, the "Caucasian Knot" held an on-line discussion "Ecology of North-Caucasian City: Experience of Vladikavkaz and Makhachkala". According to participants of the discussion, the unfavourable ecological situation in the cities of Northern Caucasus threatens to become a major challenge of the 21st century.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has declared Marina Khachatryan, a journalist of the TV Channel "A1+", to be the suffered party in her conflict with a security officer of the Parliament.

Because of the territorial dispute of Russia and Abkhazia on the territorial affiliation of the village of Aibga, its villagers have problems with entry and exit, power shortages, absence of roads and health care services, said Olga Dobshinskaya, who was born in the left-bank part of the village and is now the head of it.

On November 28, Moscow hosted a conference "War in Chechnya: Political Mistakes and War Crimes" dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second Chechen War and the 20th anniversary of the first Chechen campaign.

A hideout with grenades and ammunition was found in Grozny in the village of Solyonaya Balka. According to power agents, the hideout belonged to Aslan Aliskhanov, who was killed on October 18.

Magomed Aliev, a student of a Stavropol higher school, who was detained on suspicion of aiding terrorism and who was hospitalized in grave condition, tried to commit suicide, says the Stavropol Territorial Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as UFSIN).

As stated by Magomedemin Gadjiev, a member of the governmental commission on Karaman problems, a park will be laid there, while land plots for villagers of Tarki, Kyakhulay and Alburikent will be allocated in the area of Tyube.

In the capital of Dagestan, late in the evening on November 28, a man suspected of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) was killed, said a local law enforcement source.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint lodged by journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov against the extension of his arrest by five months. The journalist's defence believes that his rights have been "flagrantly violated".

Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the chair of the Stavropol Committee of NGO "Mothers from Kuma River Area" claims that her prosecution is an attempt to discredit her and to paralyze the activities of the Committee.

The oath sworn by individual militants of "Imarat Kavkaz", which is treated as terrorist organization in Russia, to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the so-called "Islamic State", proclaimed in the territory of Syria and Iraq, does not mean the accession to this structure; therefore, it will not have any serious consequences for the situation in Northern Caucasus, Russian political analysts Alexei Malashenko and Akhmet Yarlykapov believe.

Today in Volgograd, at the trial on the terror acts, the prosecutor demanded 20 years of imprisonment for the defendants Ibragim Magomedov and Alautdin Dadaev each, and 3.5 years – for Batirov brothers, said Said Ibragimov, the defender of Magomedov.

In Baku, Turkhan Kerimov, a staff member of the Azerbaijani "Radio Liberty", whose kidnapping has been reported this morning by his brother, is released. It turned out that the journalist was detained by police and released two hours later.