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Starting from this morning, law enforcers carry out targeted inspections and searches in the village of Karlanyurt in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan, reported local residents. In the village of Novoselskoe, inspections are being conducted starting from November 17.

In Abkhazia, on the third day of the 11th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki", 11 films were shown, including four dedicated to the Caucasus: "Murzakanians", "The Return of the Name", "My City of Baku", and "Come Being Free".

On November 17, the Sochi Art Museum opened the exhibition which aroused great interest among city residents. A significant part of the paintings depict the city of Sochi and the nature of the Western Caucasus.

The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh provided housing to 26 families with many children at the expense of the budget, and other ten families were granted housing from the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. Comfortable houses, provided by the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, are much better than public housing, reported the families with many children.

Today, five out of the six natives of Chechnya, accused of hooliganism, have injured themselves at the session of the Moscow City Court (MCC), Ulyana Solopova, the press secretary of the court reports. In this way they have protested against the two-year stay under investigation, an advocate of one of them has suggested.

A journalist of the "Rustavi-2" TV Channel, a former Mikhail Saakashvili's security and two other Georgian citizens have been kidnapped in Ukraine; deportation of them is being prepared now, Mr Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, has stated.

Extraction of gold near the Dagestani village of Kurush is complicated by the fact that the gold deposit is located high in the mountains, believes geologist Isa Gazaliev. In case if a mine is built, it will help to employ hundreds of local residents, reported the Union of Gold Producers of Russia.

Giorgi Barateli, sentenced in 2007 to 26 years of imprisonment for killing Guram Sharadze, a member of the Georgian Parliament, was released under amnesty. This was reported by advocate Mamuka Nozadze.

In the Khasavyurt District, law enforcers have photographed residents of the Novoselskoe village who have come today to the mosque to pray, and written down their personal data.

A video with participation of State Duma MP Anna Kuvychko and cadets was shot with the consent of the cadets' parents, reported the school principal. According to survey, residents of Volgograd do not see any problems in the song, despite a wave of criticism in social networks.

On November 16-17, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 117 times, reported the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Dead bodies of two children have been found under ruins of a burnt private house in the Akusha District.

On the second day of the 11th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki", ten films were screened, three of which were dedicated to the Caucasus.

Citizens of South Ossetia will be able to receive free medical care in medical facilities in Russia, announced Anatoly Bibilov after his visit to Moscow on November 14. In Tskhinvali, hospitals often have no necessary drugs, noted city residents, who preferred to go to Vladikavkaz for medical treatment.

Today, a native of Chechnya, whose was hiding under a false name abroad after an assassination attempt on a policeman, has been brought to Russia from Frankfurt am Main, Irina Volk, the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The mourning rally was held today in memory of 68 Kaspiysk casualties of explosion of a residential house on November 16, 1996. The executors and organizers of the terror act have not been found to this day.

Today, in Ingushetia, law enforcers have carried out a search at the places of Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, and his brother. Imam's supporters accused the law enforcement agencies of provocation.

Today, Mekhman Guseinov, sentenced on the charge of defaming the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has given the testimony about beatings by law enforcers. He has also demanded to examine video records from the police building.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has granted the complaint filed by Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), by recognizing the violation of his rights to a fair trial. The ECtHR has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay to Ilgar Mamedov 10,000 euros of compensation.

The authorities of Chechnya are willing to forgive Movsar Eskerkhanov, who apologized for his interview to magazine Time. This has been reported today by Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information.