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On November 14, in Tbilisi, three fired employees of the electricity company "Telasi" – Giorgi Lomidze, Zura Meladze and Lasha Kvachadze – went on hunger strike. They hold their protest near the office of the company, where they set up a tent and where dismissed employees gather.

Ashot Chtrkyan, a prisoner at the "Nubarashen", has stopped his hunger strike, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

Human rights activists in Sochi are busy to figure out the location of five detained citizens of Uzbekistan, who are criminally prosecuted after the mass brawl on November 5.

Today, a solo picket was held at the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with an appeal to Russian authorities to organize urgent evacuation of Circassian compatriots from Syria struck by military conflict to their historical homeland, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to complete the water-supply projects in villages of South Ossetian by the end of this year.

As stated today by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", at a press conference in Moscow, the acquitting verdict passed to Nazir Guliev, a former employee of the Ingush MIA, is illegitimate. According to her version, Guliev should have not been acquitted and released from liability.

The tenants of the two-storey house in Makhachkala, where a fire broke out on November 13, complain that they have nowhere to live.

Today, Volodya Matevosyan, who suffered from the collapse of an unfinished building in central Yerevan, was transferred from the intensive care unit to a regular ward, said Gagik Manukyan, Director for urgent health care of the Medical Centre "Grigor Lusavorich".

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected the complaint lodged by Andrei Krasnenkov, the legal representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, against the decision of the Tver District Court to refuse to recover from the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" of 500,000 roubles of compensation under the case of defending the honour, dignity and business reputation.

Evgeny Gurov, ex-defendant on the case of mass murder in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya, submitted a claim of compensation for moral damage inflicted on him to a total sum of one million rubles, Kushevsky district court reported.

Residents of Cherkessian settlement of Bir-al-Azham in Syria left their besieged settlement and started for the nearest Arab village. Earlier, yet before the beginning of the siege, local residents left the Cherkessian settlement of Berek.

On November, 13, about 50 members of Armenian National Congress (ANC) in Yerevan gathered in front of the building of the court to express protest against the sentence to four activists of ANC convicted for hooliganism, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Tatiana Okushko, attorney of Bashir Khamkhoev accused of committing the act of terror in “Domodedovo” airport, appealed to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in connection with the information she received about threats to her client from Chief of Federal state facility Investigative isolation ward No 4 colonel Alexey Khorev.

Today, in Armenia, in front of the presidential palace, a protest action was held, which was attended by relatives and friends of soldiers perished in the army. Participants of the protest action demanded a fair investigation into deaths in the army.

The court has fined Elena Belan, a participant of the "March of Millions", held in Rostov-on-Don, by 20,000 roubles.

An 18-year-old native of Azerbaijan, who on November 12 shot from a traumatic pistol at the wedding party, was detained for two days. This was reported by the Moscow police.

Today, in Yerevan, within the ongoing Inter-Party Consultations, dedicated to the creation of the Eurasian Union, a memorandum was signed of cooperation between the political parties of Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

Today, in front of the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a solo picket was held, urging the Russian authorities to immediately evacuate Circassian compatriots to their historic homeland from Syria, involved in military conflict.

Today, the court sentenced a resident of Budennovsk, who was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, to 15 years of imprisonment in high security colony. This was reported by Violetta Bondareva, the head of the united press service of the courts of the Stavropol Territory.

The Division for Especially Serious Cases Investigation of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Kabardino-Balkaria instituted a criminal case under Article "Fraud committed on a large scale" against Ivan Gerter, the former head of the Government of Kabardino-Balkaria.