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The Mtskheta District Court has found six minors guilty of killing footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili. All of them have been convicted under several articles of the Criminal Code, with one common one – participation in group violence.

The participation of international structures in resolving the Karabakh crisis is justified, but the world community is behaving passively, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, believes. For a long-term peace, guarantees of the preservation of the Armenian enclave in Nagorno-Karabakh are needed, but the international community will not seek concessions from Baku, Oleg Orlov, the head of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", is sure.

The population of Karvachar and the surrounding region is leaving en masse with their belongings for Armenia by the road to Vardenis, although Araik Arutyunyan, the president of the unrecognized republic, has promised to maintain control over this highway and resettle the victims in Stepanakert.

As a result of the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, over 4000 people perished; about 8000 were wounded, tens of thousands became refugees, Vladimir Putin has stated.

Italian law enforcers detained Turko Arsimekov, a native of Chechnya, on suspicion of making forged documents for members of an Austrian terrorist grouping, the Corriere della Sera reported.

For the ninth day already, at least 13 residents of Gudermes have been unreasonably kept in custody by Chechen law enforcers, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports. The human rights defenders express their concern that law enforcers torture the detainees in an attempt to force them to incriminate themselves.

Azerbaijan has imposed a curfew in villages, towns, and cities lost by Nagorno-Karabakh under the terms of the peace agreement. Azerbaijani police stations have been opened in Shusha and Hadrut.

The peace agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh will make it possible to open the road between Yerevan and Syunik, as well as to resume transport communications with Iran through Nakhichevan, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has announced. The road between Karvachar (Kelbajar) and Vardenis will be closed on November 15. At present, it is full of cars in which local residents are leaving Karabakh.

The decision on the appeal against the verdict is being unreasonably protracted, the convicted oppositionist, Tofig Yagublu, said after the court session held in Baku on November 12. He suggested that the court had not yet received an instruction on what the verdict should be.

Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has released data on other 37 military servicemen, who perished in the conflict zone. The total MoD's death toll makes 1339.

A woman from a small village in Dagestan has learned, only at the age of 42, that she had been circumcised in childhood, since it is not customary to discuss such topics, says the "AfishaDaily". Russia should introduce a new article in the Criminal Code, criminalizing all types of mutilation, Yulia Antonova, a lawyer with the "Legal Initiative" Project, believes.

Turkey should participate in the peacemaking operation in the Karabakh conflict zone along with Russian ones as a guarantor of observing the ceasefire agreement, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Armenian-Azerbaijani reconciliation is economically beneficial for Georgia, but the increase of the Russian military presence in Southern Caucasus could negatively affect the regional security, the Tbilisi political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

About ten people were detained after the end of the opposition rally demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has reported from the venue.

A complete restoration of the territories that have come under Azerbaijan's control may take 5-10 years and will require at least USD 10 billion, according to the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Yerevan, organizers of the protests claim that the actions will not stop until Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his government resign.

567 residents of the villages, who found themselves in the flooding zone after the launch of the Irganai Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP), filed a lawsuit against the inaction of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, as well as the government and the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Dagestan. The villagers request a court to oblige officials to prepare as soon as possible the documents on the payment of compensation, which the villagers have been waiting for 12 years, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

In October, more than 20 people arrived from Abkhazia to Nagorno-Karabakh to participate in the fighting against the Azerbaijani army, the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan announced.

After the capture of Shushi by the Azerbaijani troops, 25,000 soldiers of the Defence Army could have been cordoned off and killed, said the Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, while explaining the signing of an armistice agreement with Azerbaijan.

In Azerbaijan, some of internally displaced persons are ready to return to their homes in the conflict zone, while others do not want to quit their jobs and their usual way of life.