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The Appellate Criminal Court of Armenia brought a standing judgment concerning a verdict of a primary jurisdiction court sentencing four young oppositional activists to custody for hooliganism.

At night of November, 11, leaflets calling for people not to remain indifferent in the situation when the Cherkessians perish in Syria appeared in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. However, the residents of Nalchik did not have time to see the leaflets because they were torn down.

Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision on the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of keeping in custody against Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Defence and Internal Affairs of Georgia.

During the process on the case of mass murder in Kushevskaya Krasnodar regional court dismissed a motion of suspect Sergey Tsapok’s attorney, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny drew the attention of readers of his blog to order the Government of the Astrakhan Region of two Mercedes cars worth 11.7 million roubles.

Three residents of Chegem district of Kabardino-Balkaria accused of gang rape of a fourteen-year-old girl from Kursk region in the settlement of Nartan were sentenced to custody terms of 4,5 to 9 years of custody by the Supreme Court of the republic, a representative of regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reported.

On November 12, in Yerevan, in front of the residence of Armenian President, "United Youth League" held the last action within the campaign to collect signatures "against the sects". Participants of the action demand to establish an agency to control the activities of religious organizations and to amend the legislative code to introduce a definition of "soul hunting".

Today, in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, Sapiyat Magomedova, lawyer from Dagestan today received an award named Per Anger.

Signing of the agreement on simplification of visa regime between Armenia and the European Union is scheduled for December 2012, and the document will contribute to the development of economic and cultural relations between the countries. This was reported by Traian Hristea, the head of the EU delegation to Armenia.

Today, Aslanbek Nachoev, an activist of the Circassian community of Moscow, held a solo picket in support of Circassian of Syria in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation.

Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, faces charges of torture. This was reported today by his lawyer David Dekanoidze.

The Georgian side will not extradite to the Russian Federation Akhmed Chataev, a Russian citizen, an ethnic Chechen, who was detained during a special operation to eliminate an illegal armed formation (IAF). This was announced today by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

Taimuraz Mamsurov, the leader of North Ossetia, appealed to Alexei Orlov, the leader of Kalmykia, with a request to ensure the investigation into the fact of violence in the territory of the penal colony "IK-1".

First 82 participants of mass fight of foreign workers in the site of the construction of sports and tourist complex "Mountain Carousel" in Sochi sent to places of their permanent residence. This was reported by the UVD (Interior Department). Local human rights defenders report complaints of detained workers from Uzbekistan about torture at police stations.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on amendments to the Council under the Russian President for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC). This was reported by the Kremlin's website. The new Council includes 62 persons; meanwhile, the HRC does not include any representative from Northern Caucasus.

Human rights defenders, who watched the progress of the trial, believe that the verdict of the Karabulak Court on the case against Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, former staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, accused of torture, is indecisive and inconsistent and it causes perplexity.

The police detected a criminal group who within half a year sold up to 12 children from Chechnya and Dagestan to residents of Russia and Turkey, sources in law enforcement bodies reported.

Arrest of Bacho Akhalaya, Georgia's ex-Minister of Defence and Interior; election of the new Mayor of Grozny; start of trial on massacre in Kuschevskaya, first session of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory, and fight of policemen in Tuapse; verdict of guilty to figurant in "Chitigov's case" in Ingushetia; resignation of the minister of construction and architecture of the Stavropol Territory; nomination of candidates for the Mayor of Novocherkassk, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of November 5-11, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Georgia, workers on the construction of the Paravan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) declared a strike, demanding to raise wages and pay arrears for two months.

Taimuraz Mamsurov, the leader of North Ossetia, has awarded the title of Hero of Russia to Police Lieutenant Zaur Djibilov, an inspector of the road-and-patrol service, who died on October 23 as a result of the terror act, committed at the checkpoint-105 in the village of Chermen.