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A doctors’ council unanimously supported the decision to transfer Mikhail Saakashvili to a multifunctional clinic. The penitentiary service reported on the transfer of the former president of Georgia to a prison hospital.

In his comments on the statements voiced by Moscow oppositionist Ilya Yashin about Chechnya and Ramzan Kadyrov, Tumso Abdurakhmanov made an inaccuracy while describing an escape of Khalimat Taramova, social media users noted in their comments to the blogger’s video. Many of them reproached Tumso Abdurakhmanov for insufficient reasoning about the land conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was not entitled to sign the trilateral agreement, protesters claim. They have torn in public the unsealed trilateral declaration, as they believe that it is a threat to the security of Armenia, and the issue concerning the status of Nagorno-Karabakh should be resolved exclusively within the OSCE Minsk Group.

During the week from November 1 to November 7, 2021, in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about those dead or wounded was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On November 7, in Tbilisi, about 2000 people came to the rally intended to remind authorities about the victims of the violent crackdown on the 2007 opposition protest. They stressed the inadmissibility of the use of force against participants in peaceful protests.

Khanlar Aslanov, a resident of the Djabrail District, was wounded by explosion of an anti-personnel mine while engaged in field works in the Karabakh conflict zone.

Three residents of Russia and one citizen of Azerbaijan have been arrested within the resonant conflict that occurred in the "Novye Vatutinki" neighbourhood in Moscow, which was re-qualified into an attempted murder.

Chechnya is the first Russia region to complete the population census by 100%, the head of the "Chechenstat" (the Chechen Branch of the Russian Federal State Statistics Service) has stated. Some residents of Chechnya were sceptical about the statement and reported on the Instagram that they had not participated in the census.

Gigla Tumanishvili, a correspondent for the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel, has started his hunger strike demanding to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, to a multidisciplinary civilian clinic.

The special services must find the provocateurs, who had mistakenly treated the participants in the resonant attack on the man with a child as natives of Northern Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Sultan Khamzaev, a State Duma MP from Dagestan, has suggested introducing a ban on the revealing in media the nationality of suspects and convicts.

The reason for the non-admission of the advocate to Malik Rzaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) may be his torture, his advocate and activists have suggested.

In front of the prison, where Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, an ex-President of Georgia, is kept, an action began with a demand to place him into a private hospital and cancel the outcomes of the municipal elections.

A Baku court has dismissed a complaint about torture lodged by Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence intends to appeal against the dismissal.

Ramzan Kadyrov's sons are fighting in tournaments as the head of Chechnya is trying to demonstrate his power. His sons' victories are guaranteed regardless of the type of event and despite the fact that this brings Kadyrov more criticism than promotion, analysts have noted.

Supporters of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili plan to kill one of the opposition leaders in order to trigger resonance, block government buildings, the presidential administration and the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and overthrow the government, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has informed.

The advocate of Malik Rzaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), accused of drug dealing, claims that he cannot visit his client. Rzaev's relatives disagree with the charges and believe that the real reason for his arrest is his criticism of Azerbaijani authorities.

Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, has been on a hunger strike for the third day; she is holding it in the building of the parliament. She has stated her intention to pass over to harsher measures, if her demand to transfer the third president of Georgia from prison to a civil clinic is not fulfilled.

The court has granted the defence's petition and allowed visits of his relatives to Arush Arushanyan, the Mayor of the city of Goris. His supporters held an action at the courthouse demanding his release.

Thirteen judges have refused to support the harsh response of the judicial conference to the US and EU diplomats regarding the election of new members of the Georgia's Supreme Council of Justice. Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has called on Washington to support the struggle for the courts' independence with personal sanctions.

After visiting the third president of Georgia in prison, an advocate has reported that Mikhail Saakashvili is not able to stand on his feet and think coherently on the 36th day of his hunger strike. The leader of the “United National Movement” Party has announced an indefinite protest action in front of the prison in Rustavi.