A criminal case against two men has been transferred to the Southern District Military Court. They are accused of attacking military personnel in the Botlikh region in 1999 during the second Russian-Chechen war.

A court in Crimea approved the extension of the arrest until May 3 for those involved in the “second Dzhankoy” group, Ekrem Krosh, Aider Asanov, Leman Zekeryaev, Osman Abdurazakov and Refat Seidametov. Previously, Crimean Tatars were transferred from the Simferopol pre-trial detention center to the Rostov-on-Don detention center.

The US authorities want to put up for auction the yacht of Federation Council member from Dagestan Suleiman Kerimov, worth over $300 million, confiscated as part of the sanctions.

In Pyatigorsk, the director of the department of socio-economic development of the North Caucasus Federal District (NCFD) of the Ministry of Economic Development, Igor Khranovsky, was detained. A high-ranking official is suspected of embezzling budget funds.

The Nalchik City Court found local resident Rameta Lakunova guilty of discrediting the Russian armed forces and fined her 30 thousand rubles.

Armenia is looking forward to the start of negotiations on visa liberalization with the European Union within the framework of the Enhanced Partnership Agreement. This was announced by the speaker of the country's parliament Alen Simonyan.

An additional 29 tons of food were sent from Ingushetia to residents of the Gaza Strip. This was stated by the head of the region, Mahmud-Ali Kalimatov.

A court in Simferopol fined Crimean Tatar human rights activist and journalist Lutfiye Zudieva 2,500 rubles under the article on abuse of freedom of speech. Due to traffic jams, she was several minutes late for the hearing and warned the judge about this through her defense lawyer. However, the judge considered this disrespectful and heard the case in eight minutes.

The Ukrainian delegation refused to support Georgia’s resolution on the issue of European integration at the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels. Kyiv cited Russian assistance to Georgia in circumventing sanctions as the reason. In response, Georgia accused Ukraine of “torpedoing its European path with false arguments.”

On November 15, the French Senate adopted a resolution calling on the country's government to impose sanctions against Azerbaijan if it does not withdraw its troops from the territory of Armenia.