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On November 15, in the French square of Stepanakert, people lit candles in memory of the victims of the terror acts in Paris. According to the organizers, the ceremony was attended by about 500 people.

The Congress of the Karachai people, was attended by about 200 delegates and guests from Cherkessk, Karachaevsk Zelenchuk, Malokarachaevsky, Karachai, Prikubansky areas. The participants demanded the authorities to eradicate problems of cronyism and corruption.

A candle-lighting ceremony in memory of the innocent victims of a series of terror acts committed in Paris was held today in the Square of France in Yerevan.

Yuri Kokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has fixed his ministers and heads of republic's agencies to schools for practical assistance in preventing extremism.

Today, in Baku, since early morning, townspeople are coming to the French Embassy to pay tribute to victims of the terror acts committed yesterday in Paris. According to the authorities, there are no citizens of Azerbaijan among the victims.

Today, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has held a sitting of the antiterrorist commission, where he ordered to strengthen security measures in the republic in the aftermath of terror acts in Paris.

Elchin Bekhbudov, the head of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture (CaT) has died at the age of 55. He was engaged in monitoring places of detention and annually informed the public on cases of torture.

The custody of Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the chairman of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been unreasonably prolonged for a month, his defence said, adding that investigators are deliberately protracting the inquiry in order to falsify the case.

Participants of the meeting in Cherkessk criticized the organizers of the Congress of the Karachay people, saying about the attempts to destabilize the situation in the region. The meeting was attended by about 700 activists of public organizations, and heads and deputies of municipalities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Sochi, the city commission for emergencies is not lifting the high alert regime introduced because of heavy rains and floods. In the evening on November 13, another mudslide went down to the section of the Khosta-Kudepsta Federal Highway. City residents complain about the precarious storm sewers.

The Leninsky District Court of Voronezh that is considering the complaint lodged by the Media Rights Defence Centre (MRDC) against inclusion thereof in the register of "foreign agents" received the results of the examination of materials and publications of the Centre. Experts revealed political activities in them. At the same time, representatives of the MRDC have questioned the experts' conclusions.

In the Dagestani city of Buynaksk, policemen detained about 40 parishioners of a Salafi mosque, eyewitnesses report. Late at night, all the detainees were released.

On November 13, the Sakharov Centre in Moscow hosted a presentation of the book "A thin silver thread" by Polina Zherebtsova. The writer herself took part in the event via Skype.

Iskhak and Ismail Musliev, who disappeared in Argun, have not been found by law enforcers yet, his relative report. Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya refused to comment on the kidnapping.

Ruslan Parsilaev, suspected of killing the Moscow policeman Victor Razudalov, was accused of aiding militants. The whereabouts of two other suspects have not been established yet,

The "Legal Initiative for Russia" has submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague applications of persons affected by the Georgian-South-Ossetian conflict in 2008. The complaints state the use of heavy weapons of indiscriminate action, killings and torture.

The US, EU and OSCE have welcomed the release of political scientist Arif Yunus from custody in Azerbaijan, and expect a similar action in relation of his wife Leyla Yunus and other activists kept in prisons.

In Dagestan, the Tlyaratin District Court has delivered its verdict in the case of residents of the village of Vitsiyatli, Tsuntin District, who was accused of helping militants.

As a result of shelling from the Azerbaijani side, two soldiers perished, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed. Two Armenian servicemen were killed during opposing the attack of a commando group, said the MoD of Azerbaijan.

The ICRF has accused Atsamaz Datiev and Oleg Dzampaev, the employees of the Interior Department for Vladikavkaz, the figurants in the case of the death of the detainee Vladimir Tskaev, of abuse of power with use of violence.