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The consideration by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) of a complaint about the ineffective investigation into the disappearance of Makhachkala resident Omar Valibagandov has reached its final stage, report rights defenders.

Today, Alexander Valov, the editor-in-chief of the website "BlogSochi", has been taken to a court hearing on his case with a neck wound. He has claimed worsening of his health state and after that an ambulance was called to the court building, reported defenders of the blogger.

Tonight, a car of activist Adam Medaliev, beaten on November 7, has been burned down, reports activist Ibragim Yaganov. Rights defender Valery Khatazhukov associates the attack on Adam Medaliev with his public activities.

Over a day, the positions of the Azerbaijani armed forces were shelled 23 times in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

Five students from Ingushetia were detained during their stay in Egypt, and their whereabouts remain unknown for almost three months, reported a sister of a detained Ingush student.

In Vladikavkaz, a grenade detonated in a private house. One person was injured.

In Tbilisi, activists held a rally in memory of the opposition rally dispersed on November 7, 2007. Several hundred people opposed the participation in the presidential election of Grigol Vashadze, a candidate of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party.

The investigation into the torture of Guzer Khashukaev by employees of the "E" Centre has not advanced at all since September, his relatives have stated to the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (known as FSIN) has refused to transfer Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Nalchik, from a colony in the Krasnoyarsk Territory closer to his home, referring to security concerns, his relatives have stated.

Three masked men have attacked Adam Medaliev at his land plot in the village of Nartan and beat up the activist. The attack had to do with his social activeness, as Medaliev defends at court the rights of Nartan villagers to land, Ibragim Yaganov, an activist, believes.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court has extended, until April 24, 2019, the custody of Pavel Grib, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of inclining people to commit a terror act.

Colony bosses refuse to send Afghan Mukhtarly's letter to the Azerbaijani Minister of Justice; in the letter he asks to allow him to communicate with relatives via Skype, Afghan's wife has stated.

A resident of the Itum-Kale District of Chechnya is participating in warfare in Syria on militants' side, law enforcers have suggested.

While inspecting a road in the Achkhoi-Martan District, sappers found and destroyed several dozens of explosive objects, the Chechen Military Commandant's Office (MCO) has informed.

After the death of Private Aristakes Azatyan in one of the central units of the Defence Army, investigators opened a case on bringing to suicide, the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has stated.

Zamira Gadjieva, the wife of Djakhangir Gadjiev, the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), has been placed in a detention facility in London. She is charged with money embezzlement.

A protest action against the Forum of LGBT-Christians of Eastern Europe and Central Asia was held in Yerevan. Valery Osipyan, the head of the Armenian Police, said that this forum will not take place in Armenia because of security risks.

On November 6-7, positions of the Azerbaijani Army were shelled in two villages, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The Chechen leadership has failed to spread the practice of public apologies to Ramzan Kadyrov over Ingushetia; however, inside Chechnya, this practice remains efficient; and the authorities are not going to abandon it, the political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

A Moscow court has re-qualified the charge to Said Akhmaev and Lechi Bolatbaev, the guards of Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma MP, from extortion into arbitrariness and freed them from punishment.