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Bad weather in the Stavropol territory and Karachay-Cherkessia, which caused emergencies; start of the trial in the case against Khasan Zakaev, a native of Chechnya, charged of involvement in the seizure of the Dubrovka Theatre Centre; special operation in Ingushetia and Dagestan; replacement of the Government of Georgia; gas outburst at the Volgograd "Caustic" plant, which caused four victims; decision of ECtHR concerning complaint filed by a group of residents of Chechnya about disappearance of their relatives, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 21-27, 2016, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

At least 43 persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in October 2016; of them, 38 persons were killed, and five were wounded. These are the results of the calculations, run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Power agents are searching for militants in the Kazbek, Kizilyurt and Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.

On November 24, in the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in the settlement of Nasyr-Kort, in the outskirt of Nazran, apart from blocking a house in Abadiev Street, where the father and son Iliev were killed, power agents also detained Khasan Djandigov, 40, and searched his house, said a law enforcement source.

Takhir Osmanly, a soldier of the Azerbaijani Army, asserts that two policemen had severely beaten him up. However, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated that they found no evidence of this fact; and the Prosecutor's Office refused to open a criminal case, Elchin Mamed, the head of the organization "Legal Education of Sumgait Youth", said today.

On his page on the social network "VKontakte", Shamil Erzanukaev has posted one of the songs written by Timur Mutsuraev included in the list of extremist materials. The resident of Chechnya faces a fine or administrative arrest, reports the Chechen law enforcement bodies.

Today, on November 26, the court has pronounced the decision to arrest Gennady Lopyrev, the chief of the North-Caucasian Department of the Federal Protective Service (known as FSO), who was detained in Sochi on suspicion of taking a bribe on a large scale.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found violation of rights of six Azerbaijani oppositionists who were detained for involvement in a mourning procession in 2014 and then arrested. The ECtHR obliged Azerbaijan to pay in favour of activists the compensation in the total amount of 78,000 euros.

Afgan Sadygov, the founder and editor of the website "azel.tv", having social and political orientation, has been arrested in the Jalilabad District of Azerbaijan. He is accused of assaulting a woman.

The criminal case against Aslan Baisultanov, a native of Chechnya, and two members of his grouping, accused of preparing an explosion in Moscow, has been sent to the court.