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A court in Tskhinvali has arrested Mirian Taziashvili, a Georgian citizen, for two months on charges of trespassing the border. He could have been fined and released, but sentenced to arrest, the man's wife has complained.

The Georgian victims of the August 2008 war will receive 600,000 euros for medical treatment and rehabilitation, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Foundation in The Hague has announced.

Return of refugees to Nagorno-Karabakh; demining of territories in the Karabakh conflict zone; coronavirus infection spread statistics in Caucasus; attempt by the Armenian opposition to create conditions for declaring no confidence in Prime Minister Pashinyan; arrest of a top-ranking police officer from Dagestan in a case on a terror act in Moscow, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 23-29, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Return of refugees from Armenia to Nagorno-Karabakh and transfer of territories to Azerbaijan; coronavirus infection spread statistics in Caucasus; second round of parliamentary elections in Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 16-22, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A Georgian citizen has been detained near the demarcation line with South Ossetia, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has informed, treating the actions of South-Ossetian security services as illegal.

Inal Djabiev, a resident of South Ossetia, whose photo with traces of beatings had caused strong public outrage, died of heart failure amid cancellation of narcotic drug. This is the conclusion made by forensic experts, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) asserts. Djabiev's widow has refused to accept this conclusion.

Turkey should participate in the peacemaking operation in the Karabakh conflict zone along with Russian ones as a guarantor of observing the ceasefire agreement, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Advance of the Azerbaijani troops in Karabakh; opposition protests after the parliamentary elections in Georgia; detention of natives of Northern Caucasus after a terror act in Vienna, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 2-8, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Tskhinvali, the Russian military personnel have set up a mobile hospital for patients diagnosed with COVID-19, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports. While explaining the need for a mobile hospital, the chief resuscitator of South Ossetia has noted that the republic's hospitals were facing shortage of beds because of the rapid increase in the number of people infected with coronavirus.

Hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone; resumption of sending Azerbaijani citizens home from a camp near the Kullar village; killing of well-known Chechen surgeon Salakh Dagaev, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 19-25, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A message in social networks about the installation of a monument to Joseph Stalin by Dzambolat Tedeev, the head coach of the Russian freestyle wrestling team, in the village of Tsorbis has triggered disputes about Stalin's role in the history of Caucasian nations. Tedeev himself has refuted this message, but the discussion about Stalin's personality continues.

Armistice agreement, failing to stop combat actions in the Karabakh conflict zone; coronavirus infection spread statistics in the Caucasus; CTO in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 5-11, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Hostilities in the Karabakh conflict zone; coronavirus infection spread statistics in the Caucasus; major military exercise in Southern Russia and Southern Caucasus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 21-27, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On Thursday, participants of the Caucasus-2020 military exercise practiced destruction of manoeuvre enemy' military vehicles and strongholds at a training ground in the Volgograd Region. Analysts suggest that Azerbaijan and India would be able to take part in the Caucasus-2020 military exercise in case if Armenia, China, and Pakistan had not responded to the Russia's invitation.

Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; public outcry around a video with Chechen native's self-humiliation for cooperation with a Telegram channel, nomination of Mikhail Saakashvili for the post of Georgian Prime Minister, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 7-13, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".