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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.

Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, will stop her hunger strike, when she knows for sure that Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili is out of danger, the spokesperson of the "Droa" Party has stated.

Those guilty of shelling the workers who were repairing water supply pipes in Stepanakert should be punished, official representatives of Nagorno-Karabakh have stated.

Sochi policemen have detained David Abgaryan, a picketer, who demanded to release Alexei Navalny. Abgaryan has reported that he was taken to the police station, where he will be kept until the trial.

In the evening on November 8, an oppositional rally organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) "Dashnaktsutyun" was held in Freedom Square in Yerevan. According to the organizers, the rally should initiate a nationwide resistance movement.

Several thousand protesters staged a march through the territory adjacent to the building of the country's government administration in order to block the exits from it. With this march, the opposition has launched an endless protest action, which, according to their statement, will end with the release of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili.

The mention of State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in media reports about Russian citizens detained in Istanbul and Antalya became an unofficial warning to the authorities of Chechnya from Turkey, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggested.

Today, when repairing a water pipeline, workers have been shelled by the Azerbaijani armed forces, and one of the workers died in hospital, while three others stay in a state of moderate severity, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

A doctors’ council unanimously supported the decision to transfer Mikhail Saakashvili to a multifunctional clinic. The penitentiary service reported on the transfer of the former president of Georgia to a prison hospital.

Rallies in Georgia demanding fair elections and the release of Saakashvili; public outcry over the victory of Kadyrov’s son in a boxing tournament; amnesty in Azerbaijan timed to the Day of Victory in the Karabakh war, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 1-7, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

In his comments on the statements voiced by Moscow oppositionist Ilya Yashin about Chechnya and Ramzan Kadyrov, Tumso Abdurakhmanov made an inaccuracy while describing an escape of Khalimat Taramova, social media users noted in their comments to the blogger’s video. Many of them reproached Tumso Abdurakhmanov for insufficient reasoning about the land conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was not entitled to sign the trilateral agreement, protesters claim. They have torn in public the unsealed trilateral declaration, as they believe that it is a threat to the security of Armenia, and the issue concerning the status of Nagorno-Karabakh should be resolved exclusively within the OSCE Minsk Group.

During the week from November 1 to November 7, 2021, in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about those dead or wounded was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.