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On Sunday, November, 20, an ecologic meeting “Yeisk without liquid bulk terminals!” was held in the town of Yeisk, Krasnodar region. Its participants came out in opposition against operating oil terminals by “TTDH” and “Yeisk-port-Vista” companies in the center of the health resort.

Yesterday, November, 19, a local resident of the settlement of Sarmakovo, Zolsky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed. His fellow villagers associate the man’s murder with his job: he was a diver of a truck delivering spirit to the local wine factory.

Late in the evening on November 19, an attack on the writer Rafiq Tagi was committed in Azerbaijani capital. The 61-year-old writer was hospitalized in grave condition.

On November 19, within the All-Russian action, pickets were held against high gasoline prices in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog.

Today, at the "Beslan" Airport, more than 800 persons have met Anthony, Deputy Prior of the Alania Men's Monastery, who had been transferred to Dagestan, but then returned to North Ossetia after protests of local Orthodox believers against his departure.

In the township of Shamkhal, located in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, law enforcers have detained several persons, Shamsudin Magomedov, a local resident, reports.

Pyatimat Kuzgova, the mother of Arthur Gatagazhev, 36, a resident of the Ingush village of Sagopshi, who is searched for organization of and participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs), has addressed her son asking him to get out of the forest and back to normal life under the guarantees of the authorities.

On November 20, Yerevan will host a flashmob dedicated to the Song Contest "Junior Eurovision-2011"." In the centre of the capital of Armenia, the flashmob participants will embark on the long "Cascade" stairway forming the inscriptions "Junior Eurovision" and "2011 Dalita".

On November 18, a high foaming was observed in the Mzymta River and the Black Sea coastal areas adjacent to its mouth in the Krasnodar Territory; ecologists say about another discharge of harmful substances into the water.

On November 20, in Volgograd, a group of girls will hold an action "Roads-34" against the poor condition of city streets and sidewalks.

Russia plans to completely reconstruct the Gabala Radar Station (RS) in Azerbaijan, and at the same time to reduce the territory leased for the needs of the RS, said Anatoly Serdyukov, the Russian Minister of Defence.

Suren Khachatryan, Governor of the Syunik Region of Armenia, was summoned to the Special Investigatory Service and questioned within the criminal case regarding the beating of entrepreneur Silva Ambartsumyan.

Today, in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, law enforcers held a special operation and killed Arthur Amriev, who, according to their data, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.

On November 18, the capital of Georgia saw another protest rally of street traders held in front of the Parliament. The protesters demanded to legalize street trading.

Zargan Abdurakhmanova, a resident of the Darbankhi village, Gudermes District of Chechnya, has appealed to the republic's leadership with a request to find her son, who was kidnapped on September 2, 2011.

The bridge across the Volga River in Volgograd, which was closed in May 2010 due to strong vibrations, now has its counterweights (shock absorbers) in place. The cost of the works amounted to 112 million roubles.

This year, Kabardino-Balkaria registered 74 assaults on lives of law enforcers and militaries, Valery Ustov, the head of the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), said on November 17.

Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, has disappeared; the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from his wife Patimat Murshidova. Rasul Magomedov is the father of Maryam Sharipova, who, according to investigators, blew herself up in the Moscow metro in March 2009.

A large number of road accidents with severe consequences on motorways of Adygea are largely caused by poor drivers' training; and driving schools should be responsible for their low-skilled graduates, said Adam Bogus, the president of the Motor Racing Federation of Adygea, speaking to the roundtable dated to the World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims.

Akhmed Osmanov, 53, Imam Assistant in the village of Mutsalaul, was killed by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), said the Investigatory Committee of Dagestan.