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Suleiman Zailanabidov, one of the commanders of Aukh militants, acting in the territory of the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, after being accused by his supporters of splitting, sworn to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the "Islamic State" (earlier the ISIS), located in Syria and Iraq. Zailanabidov himself told about it in a video posted on the Internet.

A resident of the Vedeno District of Chechnya has voluntarily delivered a set of ammunition and a hand grenade to law enforcers, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by a source in the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). The law enforcers initiated an investigation against the man.

During the week of November 17-23, 2014, at least eight persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, six persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources. Besides, this week, one more person was reported killed earlier.

Two bodyguards and a brother of Ramzan Tsitsulaev, the representative of the leader of the Chechen Republic in Ukraine, have been arrested by the Khamovniki Court in Moscow for two months on suspicion of using violence to state officials.

Residents of the city of Grozny and two districts of Chechnya – the Shali and Vedeno Districts – complain about systematic large-scale power outages. Energy officials explain them by emergencies, while residents associate them with the authorities' desire to save power resources.

The absence of large-scale persecution of residents for their religious beliefs by law enforcement bodies is a major reason for stability in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) – this is the opinion of most participants in the discussion "KChR's Experience in Harmonizing Inter-Confessional Relations".

According to updated information, recruits from Dagestan and North Ossetia, not from Chechnya, as reported earlier, will go to take their mandatory army service at the Pacific Fleet.

In Chechnya, a criminal case has been opened against a 30-year-old local man suspected of killing his younger sister. Investigators do not exclude the version of an "honour killing".

The information about sending 100 recruits from Chechnya for taking service in the Pacific Fleet is untrue, the Military Commissariat (MC) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Two power agents were wounded during a special operation conducted in the Sunzha District of Chechnya. The bodies of all those killed in the operation have been identified, said a law enforcement source.

As reported by a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, in the area of the administrative border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, where four suspected militants were killed during a special operation, power agents continue searching for members of the armed underground.