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Solidarity actions with Syrian Circassians; victory of FC "Anji" over Italian "Udinese Calcio"; explosions in Shamilkala and sentence to policemen accused of beating a teen in Dagestan; a failed session of Armenian Parliament initiated by the opposition and telethon in Los Angeles; return of Irakli Okruashvili to Georgia and mass pardoning of prisoners; first sessions of Parliament of North Ossetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of November 19-25, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of November 19-25, 2012, at least 16 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 11 persons were killed and 5 wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Convoy Djambul Khosharauli aged 48 perished during a scuffle among convicts in the Clinic named after Gudushauri in Tbilisi. The participants of the scuffle will be punished, Minister of Execution of punishments, probation and legal aid of Georgia Sozar Subari declared.

Investigative bodies of Chechnya detained two women employees of medical centers. They are suspected of organizing a network for trafficking of children in the republic, Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reported.

Moscow city court prolonged the term of arrest to native of Chechnya Rustam Mahmudov accused of murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", till March, 7.

Unidentified masked people in Kizilyurt kidnapped a local resident, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reports.

As a result of a shootout of taxi drivers in the Dagestani village of Tagerkent, two persons were killed and two others were brought to hospital with wounds. This was reported by a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

The criminal case against five members of the grouping, suspected of organizing the terror act in the Central Market in Vladikavkaz in September 2010, sent to court.

On November, 22, trial on the case of Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper Avaz Zeinalov ended testification on the counts in the Court for grave crimes of Baku. Once again Zeinalov declared that the criminal case was forged and demanded release from custody.

Volgograd garrison military court brought a verdict against soldier Shamil Belonos. He was sentenced to 2,5 years of custody in a penal colony settlement for torture on his colleagues.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has pardoned 519 prisoners in connection with the Orthodox feast of the Saint George's Day. This was reported by Elena Tevdoradze, Chairman of the State Pardon Commission.

A man, who was killed today during the special operation in Makhachkala, was preliminary identified as Said Khiyasov, an active member of illegal armed formations (IAFs). This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Dagestan.

Today, the Court of the village of Khebda of the Shamil District of Dagestan pronounced the verdict in the case of beating a 14-year-old Makhmud Akhmedov by policemen. Gamzat Nurudinov and Shamil Magomedaliev, staff members of the Shamil ROVD (District Interior Division), were sentenced to 2 years of conditional sentence.

Today, the Moscow City Court held the court session in the case on an attempted terror act in Red Square in Moscow in 2010. Defendant Ilyas Saidov, who concluded a pre-trial agreement with investigators during the preliminary investigation, admitted his guilt.

About 30 persons, most of them natives of the republics on Northern Caucasus, went on a hunger strike in penal colony No 7 of Mordovia. The participants of the hunger strike demand to observe the convicts’ rights and stop beating they undergo in the penal colony, a relative of one of the convicts reported.