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The case of assault at Ibrahim Yaganov, human rights activist from Kabardino-Balkaria and member of Community Council of North-Caucasian Federal okrug (NCFO), has been cleared, official representative of State Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs in the okrug Mark Tolchinsky reported.

The Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) of Rostov Region suspects Mikhail Chernyshov, Mayor of the city of Rostov-on-Don, of involvement in land frauds. Mikhail Chernyshov denies accusations against him and insists on the lawfulness of the alienation of land plots.

One of the reasons for the arrest of Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of the Other Russia, who splashed water in the prosecutor's face, has been a lack of his registration in the Russian capital. This was reported by Ekaterina Ilyina, Spokesperson of the Tver District Court of Moscow.

Today, the Georgian NGOs begin to collect signatures demanding to restore the Georgian citizenship for the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili.

Yesterday, on November 2, in the city of Grozny, the official ceremony of awarding the winners of the First Caucasian Internet Prize "Prometheus-2011" was held.

Today, the Armenian government decided to grant the status of the specially protected area to the Trchkan Waterfall.

The Moscow City Court has pronounced the verdict on the case of the murder of Yuri Volkov, a fan of the "Spartak" FC.

Djubairiyat Paizullaeva, a native of the city of Izberbash, claimed that officials refused to give out the body of Shamil Paizullaev, her son, to her. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, on June 19, he was killed when he rendered resistance to the police officers.

Today, more than 50 deceived co-investors of construction companies in Azerbaijan held three protest actions in Baku.

The territory of Abkhazia has been cleared of mines. This was reported by the British de-mining NGO Halo Trust. In this regard, the organization almost closed its activities in the country.

The case of former Armenian military prisoner Arthur Badalyan was registered in the European Court of Human Rights.

A picket of a vegetarian organization "First Stage" passed off in the center of Rostov-on-Don. Several tens young people called for the by-passers to reject meat, milk and eggs.

13 more persons were hospitalized in Nalchik with suspected botulism. So, the number of people who got poisoned in the cafe of Agricultural Academy of Kabardino-Balkaria increased up to 31 persons, Head of Press service of the Ministry of Public Health of the republic Marina Osmanova reported.

An unidentified armed person in Kaspyisk entered a food store and shot down the shelves where bottles with alcohol drinks were standing from a self-firer. There were no victims or injured persons, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

In Volgograd, the place of execution of the Jews should be memorialized in memory of victims of the Holocaust. This is stated by the Volgograd Jewish community. Experts of the "Rosokhrankultura" (Federal Service for monitoring compliance with cultural heritage protection law) consider creation of the memorial complex in memory of all victims of fascism to be more appropriate.

The Internet medium "Caucasian Knot" has entered the top ten most quoted news sources of the Russian Internet. These are the results of the research for October conducted by the company "Medialogy".

Samuel Eto'o, the forwarder of the Makhachkala "Anji" FC (Dagestan) and the member of the national team of Cameroon, was put into the list of 23 football players competing for the title of the best player in the world on the basis of the year's award. Samuel Eto'o is the only member of the Russian Championship, who entered the list of candidates, the FC's press service told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On November 1, the regular, namely, the third in this year, issue of the independent Caucasian magazine "Dosh" has been released. It contains materials on human rights violations in the North-Caucasian republics, interviews with famous people, photographs, cultural and historical sketches.

The Sheki Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the first instance court, which had sentenced the human rights activist Vidadi Iskenderov to 3 years of imprisonment.

Today, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted events dedicated to the 68 anniversary of the deportation of the Karachay nation to Central Asia.