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On November 19-24, Sukhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, is expected to host the 10th North-Caucasian Open Festival of Film and TV "Kunaki". The contest programme shall include 57 films. According to organizers of the festival, at the selection of films, the main criterion was their professionalism.

Deputies of the City Duma of Volgograd have approved by majority the concept of outsourcing for catering in kindergartens. Meanwhile, the petition against outsourcing in kindergartens posted on the website "Change.org" has already collected 452 signatures.

In Makhachkala, after the mass poisoning of city residents and the arrest of the former head of the Joint-Stock Company (JSC) "Makhachkalavodokanal", Timur Magomedov is appointed the acting director of the JSC. This was reported by the Mayor's Office of the capital of Dagestan.

In Sochi, the City Mayor's Office has developed draft pet regulations, including the procedure for capture and disposal of stray animals in the city. The animal rights activists believe the regulations need to be improved.

After the mass poisoning with water of residents of Makhachkala, Dagestani Prime Minister Abdusamad Khamidov announced the need for introduction of external state control over the "Makhachkalavodokanal". Musa Musaev, Mayor of Makhachkala, also believes that the company needs a radical change in the control system.

Faig Amirov, the Chief Financial Officer of the newspaper "Azadlyg", arrested in Azerbaijan, has lost 20 kilos of body weight and needs serious treatment, said his advocate.

The Court of the Gorodische District of the Volgograd Region, which considered the case of beating the pensioner Valentina Tomchak, has found contradictions in testimonies of one woman-witness.

The natives of Chechnya Anzor Mamaev and Khazbulat Gabzaev, kept in Colony No. 7 in the town of Segezh, have been questioned about the use of violence to them, said the rights defenders, who checked the complaint of the convict Ildar Dadin about torture and beatings.

Aneta Gadieva, a co-chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, has announced plans to create an international counter-terrorist centre in the territory of the destroyed School No. 1 in Beslan.

Nikolai Borodin, the Ataman of the Kazan Cossack Army was dismissed from his post "for poor performance" and deprived of his deputy status. In the Kavkaz District authorities banned a Cossack rally in his support by warning the organizers about its illegality. Borodin himself treats these actions as pressure on him after the "tractor march".

Donald Trump, a billionaire the Republican candidate, has won the 58th US presidential election, by receiving 288 votes of the members of the Electoral College. Experts from the countries of Southern Caucasus agree that no major changes in the US policy in the region can be expected.

After the recent mass poisoning in Makhachkala, 281 persons are still in hospitals, said a source from the emergency services. On November 8, according to various sources, from 307 to 322 patients were still in hospitals.

The National Bank of Abkhazia has announced release in 2017 of memory coins, depicting tamgas - ancestral heirloom emblems. So far, they plan to issue a series of ten coins, depicting the tamgas of most numerous Abkhazian clans.

Artists of the local variety show in Makhachkala have urged citizens to get vaccinated against hepatitis A. In total, as of November 8, this vaccination was made to over 33,000 residents of the capital of Dagestan, said the Republic's Ministry of Public Health.

Every third citizen of Armenia lives below the poverty line, the National Statistical Service said in its report "Social Review and Poverty in Armenia", prepared with the assistance of the World Bank.

In Chechnya, the Prosecutor's Office has sent to the Investigating Department the instruction to investigate the reports about disappearance of Ramazan Djalaldinov, who had been earlier persecuted for his complaint about corruption in the Sharoi District of Chechnya. The disappearance of Ramazan Djalaldinov may be a provocation against the authorities, states the Ombudsman of the Chechen Republic.

In Makhachkala, employees of the housing and utilities services sector can be brought to responsibility for mass poisoning of city residents with water, and an inspection has been started to check the activities of the housing and utilities services sector. This was reported by the Prosecutor's Office.

Today, students of the Dagestani Medical University have held a rally in support of their lecturer Kamil Magomedov, who got off his clothes during the lecture.

Nikolai Antonov, a resident of Anapa, returned home after five months of slave labour at a cattle farm in Chechnya.

Today, in Makhachkala, Larisa Bachieva, the deputy chair of the Dagestani branch of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), has been detained while holding a solo picket with the demand for a meeting with Dagestani leader Ramazan Abdulatipov. Two hours later, she was released.