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On November 22, at the trial conducted by the Lenkoran District Court of Azerbaijan, Yadigar Sadygov, an adviser to the chairman of the "Musavat" Party, accused of hooliganism, declared that the falsified criminal case against him was politically motivated. The court session also questioned witnesses for the prosecution and for the defence.

On November 22, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) held a rally "No to corruption!" urging citizens not to remain indifferent to manifestations of corruption in bodies of power.

In Chechnya, Uvais Shidaev, 23, a resident of Grozny, was sentenced to three years in prison with a probation period of two years for helping a member of the armed underground, the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya report.

Rostov journalists have collected 489 signatures to the collective petition in defence of the journalist and blogger Sergey Reznik. The petition demands "to stop the customized prosecution of independent journalist Reznik," according to the portal "City Reporter".

The Chegem District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has postponed till December 13 the session of the trial against a former policeman accused of beating and torturing teenagers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported.

The attacker on the DPS (road-and-post service of the police) unit in the Tabasaran District has been identified as Ismail Akimov. The person killed today during a special operation in the Shamil District has been preliminarily identified as Murad Magomedov, said the spokesman of the Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

After the incident that happened in the Dagestani settlement of Leninkent, when parishioners clashed at the central mosque, the Imam of the mosque was dismissed. This was announced by Magomed-Rasul Omarov, the spokesman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan during a press conference organized by the Committee to Counteract Lawlessness and Arbitrariness named after Kamalov.

Five witnesses in the murder case of five people in Kizlyar, who were to take part in today's court session, were detained at the exit from the city and taken to the police division, said Sapiyat Magomedova, the lawyer for the victims; however, police say they have no information about the detainees.

A native of the city of Derbent, Republic of Dagestan, became a figurant in the case of the use of violence to a policeman near Moscow, after he dragged a road inspector, who demanded his driver's license, by his car along the road, said the ICRF. He is currently under administrative arrest, said the GIBDD (road police) of the Moscow Region.

A campaign is on in the Internet of collecting signatures to the petition in protest against the "List of Terrorists and Extremists" released by the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring), that is, a list of citizens, deprived of the right to use the Russia's banking system. The petition, addressed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Russian Ombudsman, has gathered 277 signatures.

On November 21, the city of Pyatigorsk opened the First Media Forum of Northern Caucasus "Modern Media about Modern Caucasus". The discussion focuses on how to combat the imposed stereotypes about the Caucasus, and on the issues of dissemination of information about the situation in the regions, as well as of the compliance of publications with the demands of modern readers.

The testimonies of witnesses and defendants indicate that the criminal case against Rasul Kudaev, accused of involvement in the attack on Nalchik, had been fabricated, since the alibi of Kudaev was confirmed by several witnesses, his lawyers said in the debates. According to Oleg Orlov, a member of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", Kudaev's innocence is obvious.

One of the residents of Chechnya, who made his pilgrimage to Muslims holy, moved from Saudi Arabia to Syria to take part in the armed conflict, other Chechen Hajj participants have reported. According to the journalist Orhan Cemal, now from 200 to 400 Russian citizens are taking part in the Syrian conflict.

The Tuapse branch of the criminal-executive inspection of the UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Penal Service) of the Krasnodar Territory has filed a petition to the court asking to change the conditional imprisonment appointed to Evgeny Vitishko, an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", into a real jail.

On November 25, the Academic Council of the Volgograd State University (VSU) is going to decide, whether Muslim female students can attend classes wearing hijabs. So far, there is no ban on hijabs; however, students have voted for excluding Muslim headscarves (hijabs) from the list of clothes acceptable at the University.

At the trial of seven activists of the "Nida" movement and Ilkin Rustamzade, a member of the movement "Free Youth", held at the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, the prosecutor Nemat Avazov has spoken against satisfying the petitions put forward at earlier sessions.

According to Ramazan Abdulatipov, the Dagestani leader, it is planned to divide the republic into four territorial districts; each will be supervised by a plenipotentiary representative of the president of the republic.

As reported by a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan, two suspected militants were detained in a special operation held in the Shamil District.

The information about extremist activities exercised in the female madrasa in Stavropol, circulated on November 1 by power bodies, is treated as false by the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan, said Magomed-Rasul Omarov, the head of the press service of the SAM. According to students and teachers of the madrasa, policemen apologized to them about the search.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt at the Sklifosofsky Research Institute that Deputy Oleg Shein, a Deputy of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, who was wounded in Moscow, underwent a surgery and was placed into the traumatology ward.