Supporters of the Chechen man Mansur Movlaev have launched a fundraising campaign to collect 12,000 Swiss francs to cover legal costs. The funds are needed to prepare a response to Kazakhstan’s position submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee, and to provide further evidence that the activist would face torture and persecution if extradited to Russia.

Armenia should hold a referendum on its future integration course before submitting an official application to join the European Union. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Alexander Pankin in an interview with TASS.

Azerbaijan has delivered another shipment of equipment to Ukraine, valued at $1.47 million, intended for the restoration of the energy grid. The delivery was announced following the 14th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission, held in Uzhhorod. The two sides also reached agreements to expand trade, develop joint production, and cooperate in the field of energy transit.

US President Donald Trump jokingly offered UFC chief Dana White the job of White House press secretary and listed several fighters he said White should bring on as his aides: Khabib Nurmagomedov, Islam Makhachev and four other UFC stars. The following day, on 8 November, Trump said he had been joking, explaining that with the fighters standing alongside White, journalists “wouldn’t mess with him like that”.