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Senan Dashdamirli, a son of Rafig Dashdamirli, the head of the organizational division of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested in Baku on charges of illegal drug dealing. The young man and his father have rejected the accusation, saying that it was politically motivated.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the Russian-Abkhaz treaty was in process since this August. On October 13, a draft document entitled "On Cooperation and Integration" drafted by the Russian party was delivered to the Abkhaz counterpart, which said that it should be corrected.

The conflict of the leaders of community councils of Tarki villages with supporters of Nabiyula Karachaev that burst out during a meeting in Makhachkala Mayoralty will be settled within the Tarki Jamaat, Gamzat Khangishiev, a public figure of Karaman, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), who is serving his prison term in Colony No. 2, was placed into the medical unit of the colony. His colleagues and advocate are concerned about his state of health and the lack of official information about the reasons thereof.

As reported by the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), as a result of a special operation conducted in Derbent, Velibeg Veliev, the leader of Suleiman-Stalsky militant grouping, who had been on the wanted list on suspicion of exploding policemen's cars, was killed.

Residents of the city of Grozny and two districts of Chechnya – the Shali and Vedeno Districts – complain about systematic large-scale power outages. Energy officials explain them by emergencies, while residents associate them with the authorities' desire to save power resources.

Nalchik is not equipped for wheelchair invalids, state members of the NGO "Republic Is Common Cause" after holding an action "Accessible Environment", during which they tried to drive along city streets in their wheelchairs.

55 residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), received a refusal of the republic's Supreme Court (SC) to pay them compensations as assigned by the courts of the first instance.

As reported by the Ministry of Defence of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the venue of the recent crash of the Mi-24 helicopter is under constant fire of Azerbaijani militaries; therefore, the Karabakh party cannot get there and find out the fate of three members of the crew.

The Thursday meeting of Karaman representatives with officials from the administration of Makhachkala ended in a fight, in which Magomedamin Magomedov, the leader of the public council of the village of Tarki was injured, said Gamzat Khangishiev, the co-chairman of the Presidium of the Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations.

On Thursday, November 20, law enforcers found a cache in Dagestan with improvised explosive devices (IEDs) with total power of 50 kilograms of TNT, reports the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

The advocates of the Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadyrov report that their client is illegally kept in custody despite the expiry of his arrest term. They are not allowed to visit him and fear that he may be pressed.

Amendments to the legislation on NGOs that assume that foreign donors may provide grants to the country's public associations only under a permit of the government have come into force in Azerbaijan. Mirvari Gakhramanly, the head of the Organization of Oil Workers' Rights Protection, said that the country has eliminated chance for independent NGOs to exist.

The composition of hunger-strikers has changed in Karaman: only Ibragim Yahyaev from the "second shift" continues his protest. The rest of them, who were hunger-striking since November 17, were replaced by other people. Now, the so-called "waiting list" of those ready to join the action includes more than 120 people.

Three improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ranging from 5 to 10 kg of TNT equivalent were found and defused on Thursday near the federal highway "Kavkaz" in the territory of the Nazran District of Ingushetia.

A local resident, suspected of aiding militants, was detained in Nazran. He helped them with money, showed places, where they could hide from power agents and worked for them as a driver, investigators assert.

The absence of large-scale persecution of residents for their religious beliefs by law enforcement bodies is a major reason for stability in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) – this is the opinion of most participants in the discussion "KChR's Experience in Harmonizing Inter-Confessional Relations".

In the course of their regular monitoring visit to Gldani Prison No. 8, located in Tbilisi, employees of the office of the Ombudsman (People's Defender) of Georgia found two beaten prisoners. The Ministry of Corrections knows nothing about the incident.

Starting November 14, the office of the public Karabakh Liberation Organization (KLO) in Baku is the venue of a hunger strike aimed to draw international attention to the detention in Nagorno-Karabakh of Azerbaijani citizens Dilgama Askerov and Shakhbaz Guliev, and the trial of them.

The Georgian Parliament is considering amendments to the Law "On Electronic Communications", prepared by the "Georgian Dream" Party faction. The new wording assumes to use the model of "two keys", that is, to provide access to citizens' personal data in parallel to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and data protection inspectors.