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November 09, 2021 08:42

• Armenia: opposition announces start of resistance movement

  In the evening on November 8, an oppositional rally organized by the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF) "Dashnaktsutyun" was held in Freedom Square in Yerevan. According to the organizers, the rally should initiate a nationwide resistance movement.

November 09, 2021 08:26

• Saakashvili's supporters start endless protest in Tbilisi

  Several thousand protesters staged a march through the territory adjacent to the building of the country's government administration in order to block the exits from it. With this march, the opposition has launched an endless protest action, which, according to their statement, will end with the release of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili.

November 09, 2021 00:52

• Spy scandal hits interests of Chechen authorities in Turkey

  The mention of State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in media reports about Russian citizens detained in Istanbul and Antalya became an unofficial warning to the authorities of Chechnya from Turkey, experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” suggested.

November 08, 2021 23:40

• A resident of Nagorno-Karabakh dies after a shelling attack

  Today, when repairing a water pipeline, workers have been shelled by the Azerbaijani armed forces, and one of the workers died in hospital, while three others stay in a state of moderate severity, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

November 08, 2021 23:21

• Mikhail Saakashvili transferred to a prison hospital

  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.

November 08, 2021 21:15

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 1-7, 2021

  Rallies in Georgia demanding fair elections and the release of Saakashvili; public outcry over the victory of Kadyrov’s son in a boxing tournament; amnesty in Azerbaijan timed to the Day of Victory in the Karabakh war, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 1-7, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

November 08, 2021 18:13

• YouTube users criticize Tumso Abdurakhmanov’s arguments in dispute with Ilya Yashin

  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.

November 08, 2021 17:31

• In Yerevan, protesters consider trilateral agreement to be illegitimate

  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.

November 08, 2021 14:11

• Week of November 1-7 passed without victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  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.

November 08, 2021 13:19

• Tbilisi: commemoration participants urged to prevent demonstration dispersals

  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.

November 08, 2021 11:53

• Farmer wounded by mine explosion in Azerbaijan

  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.

November 08, 2021 11:37

• Court arrests those accused of attacking man with child in New Moscow

  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.

November 08, 2021 11:17

• Instagram users are sceptical about "Chechenstat" report on the end of census

  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.

November 08, 2021 11:04

• Georgian journalist goes on hunger strike in Saakashvili's support

  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.

November 07, 2021 12:46

• Kadyrov urges to punish those responsible for the hype around attack in New Moscow

  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.

November 07, 2021 12:42

• Activists worry about fate of Azerbaijani oppositionist

  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.

November 07, 2021 12:39

• Thousands of Saakashvili's supporters gather at Rustavi Prison

  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.

November 07, 2021 12:37

• Baku court rejects activist's complaint on torture

  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.

November 06, 2021 23:34

• Analysts explain victories of Kadyrov's sons in boxing by demonstration of power

  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.

November 06, 2021 23:33

• Georgian SSS reports opposition's plans to seize power by force

  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.