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The Karabakh authorities have no information on the status of the city of Berdzor (Lachin) in the context of the December 1 planned transfer of the Lachin District to Azerbaijan, but townspeople have already left the city, considering it unsafe for living.

Armenian authorities have approved the granting of vacations to the regular soldiers who took part in hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh, their parents have informed. Also, lists of soldiers in need of medical treatment will be compiled.

In Yerevan, participants of the "March of Unity" requested the French Ambassador to influence Azerbaijan, where soldiers and civilians are being held captive. Armenian President Armen Sarkisyan has appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request for such mediation.

In anticipation of the transfer of the Lachin District to Azerbaijan, scheduled for December 1, the Armenian population leaves their houses and sets them on fire.

Before signing the statement to end the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian President agreed with the arguments of the Armenian Prime Minister, who ruled out the possibility of surrendering the city of Shushi to Azerbaijan, Nikol Pashinyan himself claimed.

In Yerevan, protesters claim that participants of the autumn fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh have to sleep on the floor in schools. According to the activists, the soldiers should be demobilized ahead of schedule and returned to Armenia. The protestors demanded from the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to confirm the compliance with the ceasefire in the conflict zone.

Return of refugees to Nagorno-Karabakh; demining of territories in the Karabakh conflict zone; coronavirus infection spread statistics in Caucasus; attempt by the Armenian opposition to create conditions for declaring no confidence in Prime Minister Pashinyan; arrest of a top-ranking police officer from Dagestan in a case on a terror act in Moscow, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 23-29, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Since the start of the peacemaking mission, sappers have cleared more than 24 hectares of ammunition and at least eight kilometres of roads in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

In Armenia, over a thousand activists have marched to the Russian Embassy in Yerevan to convey a request to the Ambassador to intervene in the process of transferring prisoners of war (POWs) and handing over the bodies of the perished soldiers. The Prime Minister of Armenia has called on political parties to unite in order to speed up the return of Armenian POWs from Azerbaijan.

During the week of November 23-29, 2020, no events related to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were recorded; there were no casualties or wounded persons. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

Ingush elders have turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking to release the activists accused of organizing riots in Magas in 2019.

The severe restrictions introduced in Georgia due to coronavirus have deprived many people of their earnings; they have nothing to feed their families, participants in the protest action in Batumi have claimed.

Regular soldiers should be returned from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia; otherwise they may become victims of acts of sabotage or be captured, protesters in Yerevan have stated. The Armenian Defence Minister has ruled out the troop withdrawal, but promised to send soldiers to vacations.

Law enforcers have cordoned off an area in the city of Karabulak, where the office of the human rights organization "Mashr" is located, and searched several houses, sources have reported. The operation was accompanied by interruptions of mobile internet throughout Ingushetia.

Over the past 24 hours, 23 patients died from coronavirus in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD): 10 people died in Dagestan; seven – in the Stavropol Territory. Chechnya is in the third place; three deaths were recorded there for the last 24 hours. These three regions are still in the lead in the NCFD in terms of the daily increase in the number of infected persons.

From November 28 to January 31, 2021, mass events are prohibited in Georgia; catering facilities have been transferred to a remote operation mode; and the movement of public transport and pedestrians is limited.

Russian peacemakers have demined the territory of one of the schools in Stepanakert; they have also resumed the heat and electricity supplies thereto, after which the school has resumed its work. During the last 24 hours, 2115 refugees returned to Nagorno-Karabakh.

The "Grozny" TV Channel has posted a video on the Instagram with the repentance of four teenagers for a broken fence in the territory of a Grozny school.

Law enforcers have let the Muslims detained near the Red Mosque go home. The police have stated that these were actions aimed at searching for people hiding from investigators and the court. Muslims were offended that such checks are carried out in mosques during the Friday prayer (namaz).

The court has sentenced a female resident of a village in the Levashin District to three years of conditional imprisonment, having found her guilty of detaining her brother's bride, whom he forcibly took away from her home.