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The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CE) has initiated proceedings against Azerbaijan in connection with the detention in custody of oppositionist Ilgar Mamedov despite the decision pronounced by the Strasbourg Court. The procedure, introduced in 2010, is used by the CE Committee of Ministers for the first time, reports the CE press service in its official statement.

On December 5, more than 100 persons from among former residents of Artsvashen village, which has been under Azerbaijani control for 25 years, held a protest action at the residence of Armenian President in Yerevan. They demanded to pay them compensations for the property lost during the Karabakh conflict in 1992.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has removed the Russian national team from participating in the 2018 Olympic Games in the South-Korean city of Pyeongchang. To return to the IOC at least after the closing ceremony of the Games, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) must reimburse the costs of the anti-doping investigation.

A resident of Makhachkala has reported disappearance of his son Azamat Aliev, who sent him message that he had been detained by policemen.

According to an informed source of the "Caucasian Knot", at night on November 22, seven men were kidnapped from their homes in Grozny. The information on the detentions has been reported to the delegation of the European Committee against Torture, which members stayed in Chechnya, the source noted.

Supporters of former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, detained today in Kiev, appeared to be able to pull him out of a law enforcers' car. Mikhail Saakashvili has called on people for a protest against Ukrainian President Poroshenko.

Today, Ramazan Abdulkarimov, a resident of the Khebatli village, has held a solo picket in the central square of Makhachkala. He has demanded to build a new school in his native village.

Today, in Kiev, the former Georgian President has been detained in the case of aiding and abetting criminal organizations, the Security Service of Ukraine (known as SBU) reported. Mikhail Saakashvili is charged with an attempted coup d'etat, his advocate explained.

Makhmud Velitov, Imam of the Moscow "Yardyam" mosque, sentenced for preaching about a Dagestani religious figure, has been hospitalized because of his complaints of dizziness, pain in his legs and high blood pressure. This has been reported today by advocate Dagir Khasavov.

A hiding with weapons discovered in a forest was arranged by suspected terrorists, and its location was revealed due to confession of a man detained during a special operation in Tbilisi. This has been reported today by the chief of the State Security Service of Georgia.

Today, at the initiative of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine, law enforcers have started to search an apartment of Mikhail Saakashvili in the case of an attempted coup d'état.

Investigators suggest that Telman Ismailov, the former owner of the Cherkizovo marketplace, organized the killing of two entrepreneurs in 2016, when Mekhman Kerimov acted as an actual perpetrator. Telman Ismailov is on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has refused to send the complaint of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, against the verdict in his case on illegal drug dealing, to the cassation.

Russian Senator Suleiman Kerimov, accused by French authorities of tax evasion and money laundering, has imported to France from 500 million to 750 million US dollars, said Jean-Michel Prêtre, the prosecutor of the city of Nice.

During the week from November 27 to December 3, 2017, no casualties or victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia has reported on the voluntary surrender of the teenager, who was searched in connection with the murder of his peer during a brawl near the school.

Thirteen women from the North-Caucasian and the Southern Federal Districts (NCFD and SFD) are imprisoned in Baghdad with their children, according to a list posted today by the RIA "Novosti".

The Tbilisi City Court has imprisoned a minor accused of a double murder of teenagers; the second suspect has been arrested in absentia. Today, the police have detained three more people.

The incident occurred late in the evening on December 3. After being beaten, Giorgi Kvanchiani, an activist of the "Free Zone" NGO, was taken to a hospital by an ambulance.

According to preliminary data, Alexander Pogrebov’s parachute failed to open during his jump in the mountains of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), an investigator has stated today.