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The Volgograd State University (VSU) has adopted a document, which regulates the allowable high school dress code, where, along with banned shorts and short skirts, it was decided to introduce a separate ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs). This proposal was made by Taisia Yudina, the pro-rector for education and upbringing of the VSU. It is supported by regional officials.

In the Ingush city of Karabulak, they began smashing a two-story house at No. 21 Rabochaya Street, where three families live. The works continue even at night, as Firdaus Musieva, a tenant, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The case of the shelling and wounding Mukhmet Buzurtanov, a resident of the village of Ghalashki, has been transferred from the MIA of Ingushetia to the military investigating division, said the lawyer Magomed Gandaloev.

On November 18, the newly elected President of Georgia Georgy Margvelashvily went to work. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that he refused to occupy the presidential palace and is temporarily working in the State Office of the Government, in the premises of the former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has ruled to cancel the arrest of Ruslan Makoev, accused of killing the deputy prosecutor Oleg Oziev as Stanislav Ailarov, Makoev's advocate, has reported today.

The explosion in the Dagestani Khasavyurt happened near the pharmacy, the owner of which had earlier received threats, said a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the ICRF. Nobody suffered, the GOVD (City Interior Divisions) has reported.

As reported by the Chief Department for the Volgograd Region of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), a woman, wounded in the terror act in Volgograd on October 21, has died in the Vishnevsky Surgery Institute in Moscow. Thus, the death toll of the bus explosion has now eight persons. Currently, four more victims are still in hospitals.

As reported by the Chief Department (CD) of the MfE for the Volgograd Region, Pavel Prokofiev, a resident of Volgograd, perished in the plane crash in Kazan. The authorities in the region are going to help his family comprising three children.

In the vicinity of the village of Kharachi, Untsukul District of Dagestan, which remains blocked by law enforcers since November 15, shell explosions are heard; and the forest adjacent the village is on fire, locals are reporting.

Today, the Zamoskvoretskiy District Court of Moscow has failed to consider the claim lodged by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" on challenging the demand of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office that had prescribed the HRC to get registered as a foreign agent. The claimants have petitioned to adjourn the session; and the judge postponed it until February 4.

Detention of Mikhail Stolyarov, Mayor of Astrakhan, on suspicion of bribe-taking; entrance of Georgy Margvelashvily into the post of President of Georgia; special operation in Dagestan, which resulted, according to power agents, in the murder of Dmitry Sokolov, who was involved in the terror act in Volgograd; dissolution of the jury on Anna Politkovskaya murder trial; and sentence to four natives of Ingushetia in connection with the terror act in Domodedovo, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of November 11-17, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from November 11 to November 17, 2013, at least 16 persons suffered; of them nine people were killed and seven others wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

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"