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The system of election of Georgian MPs is not subject to revision, despite the ultimatums of the opposition, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Speaker, has stated. Should the electoral system change, the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party would lose its constitutional majority, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

According to the state procurement website, next year 51.1 million roubles from the Chechen republic's budget will be spent on maintaining the service residence of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

David Shakhnazaryan, a candidate for the MP from the Republican Party of Armenia, has failed to appear at the National Security Service, where he was summoned to give an explanation after criticizing the statement of one of the candidates from the "My Step" bloc.

The departure of the victim from the country cannot be the reason for refusal to initiate a criminal case, as suggested Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, the lawyers of the Committee against Torture assert.

The case of Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the oppositional website "Bastainfo.com", accused of anti-state appeals, has been separated into individual proceedings. Mr Gadjibeili believes that his detention is being prepared.

The court has sentenced Ruslan Aliev, who being the deputy head of Correctional Colony No. 7 in Dagestan, used physical violence against the convict, as well as extorted and received a bribe from him, to eight years in prison, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation has reported.

Employees of the Russian Embassy in Egypt fail to take steps to search for the Ingush students who disappeared after being detained in Cairo in August, their relatives have stated in Moscow. After contacting the president's reception office, relatives are planning to search for them through international organizations.

A court in Baku has appointed administrative arrest to Gusein Melik, an activist of the oppositional "Movement for Democracy and Prosperity" (MDP). The movement leadership believes that the reason for persecuting Mr Melik was in his criticism of the authorities in social networks.

On December 6, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia will proclaim its decision on the constitutionality of the agreement on the Ingush-Chechen border, the CC's press service has announced today.

Today, family members of five residents of Ingushetia who went missing in Egypt have submitted an appeal to the Embassy of Egypt asking to help in the search, and also conducted a solo picket demanding the return of their sons.

The US authorities are satisfied with the fact that the presidential election took place in Georgia, but are concerned about numerous violations on the voting day, the spokesperson of the US Department of State has stated today.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the conflict zone were shelled from the "occupied territories," the country's Ministry of Defence has stated today. At the same time, it did not report any ceasefire violations on the border with Armenia.

Mirtagi Asadov, the head of the Supreme Spiritual Administration of Muslims, released by the court from custody in Baku, has returned to Georgia. He said that the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed to react to his detention in Azerbaijan.

The authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has found Azerbaijan's proposal to exchange prisoners unacceptable; however, they are ready to release one of the three Azerbaijani prisoners, namely, the soldier Elnur Guseinzade, ahead of time, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the NKR.

Three witnesses from among inmates of Colony No. 16 who were attracted as search witnesses, failed to appear at the trial of Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. The defence insisted on interrogation of them; and the court has adjourned the session.

The "Legal Initiative" has drafted a report on women, who in 2013-2017 fell victim to the so-called "honour killings". The report, which is scheduled to be published on December 6, is based on the studies conducted in the three republics of Northern Caucasus – Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

The European Court of Human Rights has issued its decision on cases of 16 residents of Chechnya and one resident of Ingushetia, who were detained by militaries in 2002-2004 and then disappeared. The Russian authorities should pay compensations to their relatives amounting more than one million euros.

The six citizens of Ukraine and a citizen of Georgia, detained in Tbilisi during a special operation, have gone on a hunger strike in protest against the charges of illegal acquisition and possession of weapons, their advocate has announced.

The OSCE observers, who went today to the troops contact line in the Karabakh conflict zone, found no violations there, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan have reported.

A Tbilisi court has ruled to arrest six citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Georgia, detained during a special operation in Tbilisi and suspected of illegally acquiring and storing weapons.