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The Stavropol Territorial Court has begun considering the case against four defendants, whom investigators believe to be the organizers of the riots at the Makhachkala Airport. There are no proofs in the records from the airport that they coordinated the actions of the crowd.

The head of Chechnya has confirmed the drone attack on the Akhmat Kadyrov regiment and proposed placing Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) on roofs of the sites that could become attack targets.

The Moscow City Court had denied the defence's appeal against the extension of the arrest of the journalist, Nadezhda Kevorkova, accused of justifying terrorism.

In Tbilisi and Batumi, women are holding protests in front of police stations demanding that policemen stop beating protesters.

During the dispersal of the rally held in Tbilisi by supporters of European integration, Luka Tkebuchava and Tedo Kvacakiya, employees of the “Formula” TV Channel, got injuries. Furthermore, it has been reported that an employee of the “Public Broadcaster” was also injured. The confrontation between the police and the protesters continues.

The case of Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, accused of justifying terrorism, has been returned from the Prosecutor's Office (PO) to investigators for eliminating inaccuracies in the charges. This was reported by Kaloi Akhilgov, an advocate.

The first hearing of the case of riots in Makhachkala was held in the Kochubeevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory. Four defendants are accused of taking part in mass riots and violating the transport safety regulations.

The defence has asked to sentence Islam Atavov, a former policeman and a figurant in the death case of Kurban Dalgatov, who died at the Sovietsky ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, to the minimum punishment; Atavov had concluded a pre-trial agreement, while the prosecution demanded eight years in jail for him.

Security forces detained the leader of “Akhali” and the “Coalition for Change”, Nika Gvaramia, as well as members of the “Girchi” and “Lelo” parties. The offices of opposition parties and movements are being searched.

In Cherkessk, the police detained Guzel Kasimova, an activist from Kazan, who was released from a special detention facility after ten days of arrest. The woman was accused of knowingly making a false report of a terror act.

In a case on riots at an airport in Makhachkala, one of the defendants was subjected to pressure, his advocate reported. Meanwhile, the defender was underaged at the time of his arrest.

Guzel Kasimova, a resident of Kazan, who was arrested in Karachay-Cherkessia for ten days, complained to her defender that she faced pressure and threats after her detention. A pensioner from Stavropol, who arrived to Cherkessk to look for her friend Guzel Kasimova, also reported pressure from the law enforcement bodies.

Adam Delimkhanov, a Russian State Duma MP, has refused the activists' request to initiate a check into the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen native.

Georgia held its parliamentary elections on October 26, 2024, amid a sharp confrontation of the ruling party versus the opposition, the parliament versus the president, and the European way of the country's development versus the pro-Russian one. The elections had a number of peculiarities and novelties related to the amendments made in the Electoral Code. The following report by the "Caucasian Knot" tells about the 2024 election campaign in Georgia.

A court in the Narimanov District of the Astrakhan Region has fined a local resident by 30,000 roubles, recognizing that his comments on the Telegram had discredited the Russian Army.

Makhmud Djavatkhanov and Abdulbasir Atavov have confirmed in court that they were present at the Makhachkala Airport during the riots, but denied the crime charges.

Protests in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, drone attacks, political crisis in Abkhazia, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 25-December 1, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The first hearing in a case on riots at the “Uitash” airport in Makhachkala was held at a court in the Stavropol Territory. Two of the eight defendants, in addition to participating in mass riots and violating transport safety rules, have been accused of attacking policemen.

The sentence of Timur Idalov, an advocate from Chechnya, in a case on threatening a public prosecutor will be challenged. Lawyers called the deprivation of the opportunity to practice law the most severe part of the Timur Idalov’s punishment, although the term of forced labour is close to the maximum stipulated by the article.

Zakhar Zaripov, a writer and an oncology patient, convicted of an appeal to the head of Chechnya, has been released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).