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The memorial to the residents of Sukhumi, who perished in the 1992-1993 armed conflict, will be restored after making changes to the inscription on the stone. This was reported by the Council of Eastern Ayrshire, which includes the Scottish city of Kilmarnock.

Anna Kuvychko, a State Duma MP from the Volgograd Region, has shot a video with pupils of the cadet classes. In the video, the children are singing about their willingness to be led by President Vladimir Putin in the last battle. Children should not be involved in recording of songs about the willingness to fight, wrote participants of the discussions in social networks.

Three residents of Vladikavkaz are involved in the case on a series of extortions and attacks on gays. The defendants have explained their actions by homophobia.

Organizers of the European Wrestling Championships to be held in Kaspiysk will recruit 300 volunteers, reported the Dagestani Ministry for Sports.

Builders have restored the pavilion that got burnt down in September, an official of the "Berkat" marketplace in Grozny has stated. However, the tenants of pavilion received no compensations for their suffered losses; therefore, some of them could not resume their business.

Supporters of Ksenia Sobchak send applications from the regions of Northern Caucasus. However, there are no people wishing to lead her pre-election office, reports the press service of the campaign "Ksenia Sobchak against all".

On the air of the Chechen TV Channel, a native of Chechnya, who lives in Germany, has apologized to the authorities of the republic and explained that he was forced by Western journalists to announce his homosexuality.

Law enforcers have detained three women from Dagestan, who arrived to Chechnya from Syria on November 13. One of the women is on the Moscow wanted list.

In Dagestan, the growth of public activities can be explained by the people's attempts to attract the attention of Vladimir Vasiliev, the new head of the republic. This opinion has been expressed by Magomed Magomedov, a political commentator of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

The city of Volgodonsk has held events dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of deportation of Meskhetian Turks from Georgia. They pointed to the absence of dialogue with the Georgian authorities on the issue of their return to their historical homeland. The nation's right to rehabilitation has not yet been realized, they assert.

Residents of Makhachkala have filed a claim against construction in a park near Ak-Gel Lake. Works on the construction of a cathedral are prohibited until the consideration of the claim is completed.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a woman from the village of Kishpek has confessed to killing her son. The woman has explained her act by her difficult financial situation. This has been reported by the Prosecutor's Office.

Chechen women, brought from Syria on November 13, have confirmed to their relatives that they could return to Russia after consenting to criminal prosecution. All women were first offered to stay in the Middle East and send only children to their homeland, the authorities of Chechnya reported.

Today, a Makhachkala court has considered administrative cases of 13 residents of the village of Mokok, who on November 13 tried to meet Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting head of Dagestan. The court issued warnings about the violation of the order of holding a public event to all the detainees.

On November 13, women and children were brought by air from Syria to Grozny; among them there are 34 Russian citizens and seven citizens of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

On November 13, Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting head of Dagestan, said that the battalion of military police will be stationed, after its return from the Middle East, in the village of Botlikh.

During shelling on November 13-14, the Armenian armed forces used large-calibre machine guns. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The 11th North-Caucasian Open Cinema and Television Festival "Kunaki" (Friends) will screen 51 films. This year, the organizers rejected all the feature films, treating the last year's experience as "unsuccessful."

Austrian policemen seized a pistol from a native of Chechnya who opened fire at his own wedding party.

The British authorities agreed with the demand of the Georgian Ambassador to dismantle the monument to residents of Sukhumi, killed in the armed conflict in 1992 and 1993. The Abkhazian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) called the demolition of the monument an act of vandalism. More than 1600 people signed a petition to preserve the memorial.