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The video proofs of torture of residents of Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 in Saratov gives hope that the perpetrators will be punished; however, in other Russian institutions the situation is similar, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

About 60 Armenian soldiers tried to cut the lines of communication between the posts of the Azerbaijani army in the border area, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan claimed.

In their video appeal addressed to the President of Russia, Volgograd residents claim that the requirement for QR codes violates the constitutional rights of citizens. The activists who took part in recording the appeal said that they spoke not against vaccination, but against coercion to it.

Despite a court’s request to bring Mikhail Saakashvili to the trial, the special penitentiary service refused to do that, fearing an attack by the opposition on a convoy car.

A Moscow court ruled to detain Salman Zhamaldaev, a former winner of the World Fighting Championship Akhmat, until January 6. The athlete faces 10 years of imprisonment under the article on drug trafficking.

At least ten activists were detained even before the start of the rally in front of the building of the State Security Service of Georgia. Two more protest actions against the transfer of Mikhail Saakashvili to a prison hospital are taking place near the buildings of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Public Health.

About a dozen doctors have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Government in Tbilisi, where they demanded to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, to a multifunctional private clinic.

Well prior the scandal with the detained Russians, the Turkish-Russian relations were unstable, and reports about the preparations for an assassination attempt on representatives of the Chechen Diaspora will not improve these relations, the Russian Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

On November 9, during the parties' debate at the trial held in the city of Yessentuki, the advocates of the Ingush activists, accused of creating an extremist community, delivered their speeches. They asked the Kislovodsk City Court, which is considering the case, to pass an acquittal, since, in their opinion, the crimes imputed to their clients have not been proved in any way.

Actions demanding to protect the rights of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, will be held every day in different places, which will be announced the evening before, Nika Meliya, the leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has proclaimed.

At a rally in Yerevan, supporters of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, accused the authorities of failures in all spheres of politics and economy.

The November 8 shelling of four workers near the city of Shusha (the Armenian name is Shushi), one of whom died, is being investigated in Nagorno-Karabakh under the article about a terror act. Because of the incident, Baku and Stepanakert have accused each other of an attempt to discredit the work of Russian peacemakers in Karabakh.

Yana Antonova, a Kuban (Krasnodar) activist, has held a solo picket in support of the opposition politician, Andrei Pivovarov, aiming to draw public attention to the start of his trial.

In Oslo, the police shot and killed a man who threatened passers-by with a knife and attacked police officers. The killed suspect was a native of Chechnya, who had an earlier criminal record for stabbing a passer-by, Norwegian media reported.

A prison hospital is not able to organize proper security, and there are no guarantees for the safety of the third president of Georgia. The Tbilisi City Court has appointed a hearing on the Mikhail Saakashvili’s case for November 10, and a refusal to bring the defendant to court will testify to the fear of the authorities, his advocates claim.

In Yerevan, participants of a protest action have claimed that the Armenian authorities do not react to the demands of forced migrants to recognize them as refugees and do not try to organize their return to Nagorno-Karabakh.

The Georgian authorities placed Mikhail Saakashvili in a prison hospital in order to break him psychologically and take him out of the political game, associates of the former president of the country claimed.

On November 8, Azerbaijan marked the Victory Day in honour of the anniversary of the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh in the fall of 2020. On the occasion of the holiday, a march of many thousands was held in Baku.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian president, has stated that he was tricked into the prison hospital and that after he arrived there he was beaten up.

In most cases, there is no need to indicate the nationality of conflict perpetrators, except for the crimes motivated by nationalism and xenophobia, the journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.