Today marks the 81st anniversary of the deportation of the Meskhetian Turks. In November 1944, on Stalin's orders, approximately 86,000 Meskhetian Turks were forcibly deported from Meskheti (a region in modern-day Georgia) to Central Asia. This deportation resulted in the deaths of 17,000 people, and the survivors found new homes in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
At a Baku military court hearing, the prosecutor's office presented the requested sentences for 15 former Nagorno-Karabakh leaders accused of war crimes.
Yerevan and the United States are considering two lease terms for the road through Azerbaijan, known as the "Trump Route" (TRIPP): 49 or 99 years. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced this at a conference on regional security.
Remnants of an Iskander missile fired at Kyiv damaged the Azerbaijani embassy building. The munition fell on the grounds of the diplomatic mission, leaving a large crater. The strike destroyed part of the embassy wall, shattered windows, and damaged vehicles belonging to diplomatic mission staff.
Jailed former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has appealed to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to include him on the list of civilian prisoners of the Russian-Ukrainian war "with the corresponding legal consequences." As a Ukrainian citizen, he believes he is "illegally held by the pro-Russian regime in Georgia."
After making comments about "crypto-khokhols" against Kremlin bloggers of Ukrainian descent, RT contributor and propagandist Ilya Remeslo was forced to apologize at the insistence of Apti Alaudinov.
In 14 Russian regions, including Ingushetia and the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, a number of commercial medical institutions have renounced their licenses to perform abortions. This was announced by Priest Fyodor Lukyanov, Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, Motherhood, and Childhood.
The Tbilisi City Court has ordered pretrial detention in absentia for the leader of the "Gakharia for Georgia!" party and former prime minister in the so-called "Chorchana" incident.
Faig Nagiyev, a member of the opposition Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention. The party stated that this is the third such incident against its activists in the past week, calling it political persecution.
According to a statement from the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the 65th round of the Geneva International Discussions, held on November 11-12, was disrupted by the Russian side. The Georgian delegation focused on Moscow's fulfillment of its obligations under the August 12, 2008, ceasefire agreement, as well as on ensuring the safe return of internally displaced persons and refugees to the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which Tbilisi considers to be under Russian occupation.
New information has emerged in the investigation into the crash of a Turkish C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft in Georgia. Experts have determined that the disintegration began with the separation of the tail section of the aircraft.