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During the week on November 20-26, 2023, at least one person perished and another one was wounded during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Law enforcers took Roman Kharitonov to a police station and drew up a protocol against him for insulting the president of Russia. Roman Kharitonov considered a visit of social protection officers to his 92-year-old grandmother an element of pressure on his family.

Residents of Palestine who arrived in Dagestan asked to be provided with cellular communications and the Internet, as well as to draw up necessary documents. Some of them intend to obtain Russian citizenship. All refugees are accommodated at a recreation centre not far from Makhachkala.

The act of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, who burned down the Koran, has offended Muslims' feelings and inflicted harm to them harm. This was stated by Imams of local mosques, who act as the suffered party in the case, considered by the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny.

After being fined for posting extremist symbols in a social network, a resident of the Baksan District, has placed another post with similar content. A criminal case has been opened against him, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has reported.

Igor Ogorodnikov, an election observer from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who was given a summons at the polling station, has learned from the acting military commissar of the Krasnodar Territory that the Gelendjik military commissar had been transferred to a lower position.

After being released from custody, Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, left Kyrgyzstan to avoid deportation to his homeland.

Authorities against journalists in Azerbaijan, armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, Caucasus and Palestine, 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 19-26, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The increased investigators' attention to the signatories to the appeal in defence of scientists is a continuation of pressure on the Kabardino-Balkarian Institute for Humanitarian Studies (known as KBIGI), Valery Khatazhukov, a human rights defender, has pointed out.

In Chechnya, Alan Khamkhoev, a native of Ingushetia, has been sentenced to a year in penal colony for illegal possession of a pistol with cartridges that he had found. Alan has stated that Chechen investigators falsified the materials of his criminal case.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya has found that a district court in Grozny unreasonably dismissed a complaint filed about the investigators’ refusal to institute a case on torture of actor Timur Debishev. The complaint has been returned to the first instance court.

Ismail Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia, has been fined by 30,000 roubles for his post placed in a social network.

Jonah (Ilya Sigida), a Hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), earlier arrested for two days on charges of resisting law enforcers during a search in his church, was fined by 30,000 roubles. The court has treated his article as discrediting the Russian Army.

Shamil Aliev-Gasanov, a native of Dagestan, is charged with terrorism in connection with the arson of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in Murmansk. Such accusations are intended to intimidate initiators of pacifist actions, human rights defenders have pointed out.

Zarema Musaeva has a chance for the conditional early relief (CER), but the decision depends on Chechen authorities, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Dagestani courts have received administrative cases against 515 people, on whom protocols had been drawn up on various offenses committed during the anti-Semitic action and riots in Makhachkala.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included Idris Yusupov*, a Dagestani journalist, into the register of foreign agents under dubious pretext; this decision is a persecution manifestation of dissidents, Telegram users have indicated.

The appellate court has amended the sentence of Chechen book publisher, Aslambek Ezhaev, pointing out significant violations, but upheld the sentence of 17 years of freedom deprivation on charges of financing terrorism.

Chechen drivers have faced new law enforcers' raids against tinting car windows; attempts to argue with policemen lead to being served with summonses, local residents have reported. The raids are conducted in order to recruit drivers to the special military operation (SMO) zone, Ali Magamadov, a political analyst, has suggested.

After his convoying to colony Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia, has suffered four epileptic attacks; now he suffers from memory problems.