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The organization "Adyge Khase-Circassian Council" from the city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, has decided to declare 2014 the Year of Sorrow in connection with the 150th anniversary of the end of the Caucasian War. In the near future, an action plan, dated to the event, will be approved.

Sirazhuddin Kurbanov, a resident of the village of Novy Kyakhulay, Lenin District of Makhachkala, was kidnapped on November 15 and tortured, said a source from the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy). The kidnappers released Kurbanov on the same day.

On November 16 in Sochi, about a hundred members of the Society of the Blind held a rally to mark the International Day of the "White Stick". Among other things, they discussed the threat of eviction of their Society from the premises occupied for more than 60 years.

After a forced three-day break, on November 16, a new issue of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom) was published. This became possible thanks to fundraising during the charity marathon in support of the newspaper and a partial repayment of its debt to the State Publishing House "Azerbaijan".

Ashot Khudoyan, a resident of the Armenian city of Echmiadzin, who stopped on November 13 his hunger strike, which he held with his mouth stitched up in Yerevan, has promised to resume his protest, if the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia failed to address his case within a week.

As reported by locals, ten out of the earlier detained residents of the villagers of Kharachi, Untsukul District of Dagestan, have been set free without being charged. The on duty unit of the local ROVD (District Interior Division) has confirmed the information to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has recognized the journalist Sardar Alibeili and Rashad Agaaddin (Ramazanov), an active user of social networks on the Internet, who were convicted on November 13 in Azerbaijan to different terms of imprisonment, the be "prisoners of conscience"

As reported by law enforcement bodies of Dagestan, five militants were killed during the storming of a house in Semender, including Dmitry Sokolov, who is regarded to have been involved in the terror act committed in Volgograd.

On November 15, a protest action, held in Yerevan demanded from the authorities to update and correct the new pension system, they plan to launch since January 2014. The rally near the building of the National Assembly of Armenia (Parliament) brought together about 800 persons.

Today, during the negotiations, Dmitry Sokolov confessed to power agents on his involvement in the terror act committed in Volgograd. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).

In Chechnya, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has completed the investigation into the criminal case against Umrabat Amaeva, a resident of Dagestan, and medical workers Malikat Biytemirova, Jennette Sadulaeva, and Batuli Chupalaeva, who are accused of selling a minor girl and a newborn baby boy.

Till present, Syrian Circassians, who live in the "Djailyk" Hotel in Nalchik, stay in unheated rooms. According to them, the situation for refugees has worsened because of the cool weather.

In the village of Kharachi of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, during the operational investigative activities, a clash between believers of mosque and the police occurred. This was reported by a source at the Untsukul ROVD (District Interior Division).

On November 15, the jury of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan fully acquitted Zhairula Umarov, a resident of Khasavyurt, accused of sexual abuse of a minor.

The practice of use of torture in Russia, including in Northern Caucasus, has become a common and routine phenomenon. This was stated by authors of the report "Different Faces of Torture", prepared by the French Association of Christians for the Abolition of Torture.

Four residents of the village of Kharachy, Untsukul District of Dagestan, including the head of the village Gadjimurad Saladinov, were detained by power agents and taken to one of police stations for questioning, local residents have reported.

Today, Vladimir Putin has signed a decree instructing to amend the migration regime in Sochi during the Winter Olympics-2014. The document says that those citizens of Russia, who will arrive in Sochi, shall apply for registration.

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, this morning parishioners were again not let into the central mosque, located in Leninkent, a suburban township of Makhachkala. It caused a clash, in which six persons were injured.

This afternoon, in the area of Leo Tolstoy, Morozov and Dzerzhinsky Streets of Stavropol, a bus was on fire. No casualties or victims were reported by the first aid station. The police claim that a terror act is out of question.

The Mayor of the city of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov, who was detained at receiving a bribe of 10 million roubles, was arrested by the today's decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow.