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The burning of the grass and the inability to use pastures near the Azerbaijani positions led to the ruin of cattle breeders in the border regions, and if the authorities do not provide assistance, a mass exodus from the villages will begin, Armenian villagers say.

Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament, accused the Ingush Council of Teips of provocation in connection with the declaration about the land at the border between the two republics and announced his willingness to meet his opponents. Magomed Daudov repeated the Ramzan Kadyrov’s threat to “take off pants” voiced against those dissatisfied with the position of the Chechen authorities.

The Ossetian-language film "Unclenching the Fists" by Kira Kovalenko, a director from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has won the prize of the European Film Academy for the best film editing.

In the evening on November 17, from their positions in the Tavush District, Armenian militaries shelled the Azerbaijani positions, after which Azerbaijani militaries opened response fire, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Azerbaijan has handed over to Armenia, through the mediation of Rustam Muradov, a deputy commander of the Southern Military District of Russia, the body of an Armenian soldier who perished in the recent hostilities on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

The heads of the Sunzha District of Ingushetia and the Sernovodsky District of Chechnya have agreed that the Chechen party will coordinate any works on the bank of the Fortanga River with the administration of the neighbouring district of Ingushetia.

Armenia has repeatedly appealed to Azerbaijan offering to sign a peace treaty, as well as to start the process of border delimitation and demarcation, but received no reaction from Baku. All the proposals remain in force, the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has stated.

Law enforcers have summoned a resident of Kaspiysk to the police station and threatened to put him on the so-called "prophylactic register" as an extremist. They were interested in the man because of his visit to the "Tangim" Mosque, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has informed.

Devlet Bakhcheli, the leader of the Turkish parliamentary "Nationalist Movement" Party, has presented the President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, with a map of the "Turkic World", which includes the regions of Southern Russia: the Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), Rostov Region, the North-Caucasian republics and the Crimea.

By threatening to seize territories from Ingushetia, Ramzan Kadyrov is seeking pressure from the authorities of the neighbouring republic on those residents who are dissatisfied with the situation with the border, political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin, economist Sergey Zhavoronkov, and Caucasian expert Akhmet Yarlykapov suggest.

The international press freedom organization “Reporters Without Borders” has released a list of the journalists killed in 2021 while carrying out their professional duties. The list includes two journalists from Azerbaijan and one from Georgia.

Criticism of the Georgian authorities because of the situation with Mikhail Saakashvili does not yet bear any special negative consequences for the country, but if something bad happens to the former president of Georgia, the attitude of the West will change its direction, political analysts note.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found a resident of Dagestan guilty of plotting an attack on police officers and participating in a terrorist organization and sentenced him to 11 years of imprisonment.

Anatoly Bibilov has signed a decree pardoning the Georgian citizen, Gennady Bestaev, convicted for illegal crossing the border, who fell into coma in the Tskhinvali prison.

Within five days, over 56,300 people have signed the petition demanding to prevent the closure of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the "International Memorial".

On November 16, seven Azerbaijani servicemen perished in clashes on the Armenian border; other 10 were wounded, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The aggravation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border demonstrates that the issue of border delimitation has reached a dead end, Robert Nazaryan, an expert, believes. The fighting broke out because the parties tried to improve their positions in the territories that they consider to be theirs; while border delimitation would allow to solve this issue, the analysts Azad Isazade, Telman Abilov, Adalyat Verdiev and Tarlan Eivazov have noted.

More than five hundred people have protested at night in front of the government building in Yerevan, demanding the resignation of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, amid the aggravation of the situation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border. Two activists were detained.

In the village of Dachnoe, Prigorodny District, a fight broke out, which became the third conflict since November 4 with the participation of Ossetians and Ingushes. The fighters dropped their mutual claims, but the police will examine the incident, the North-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

The fighting in the area of Azerbaijani-Armenian border has stopped after negotiations of the heads of the Ministries of Defence (MoDs) of the two countries with Sergey Shoigu, the head of the Russian MoD, the latter has informed.