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The Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations has called on the Russian authorities to pay attention to the problems of Syrian Circassians and help in their resettlement to their historical homeland. The Congress intends to announce this appeal during a picket scheduled in Moscow on November 17.

Today, the capital of North Ossetia has hosted and action "Kindergartens – to Children!" where the participants – more than 50 local residents – demanded from the Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) to return the building of a former kindergarten back to the city.

The Prosecutor's Office has appealed against the decision of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, which declared illegal the refusal to open a criminal case on the hostage liberation operation at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in 2002.

Gennady Onischenko, the head of Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Goods Supervision ("Rospotrebnadzor"), has stated that the delivery of Georgian wines and mineral waters to the Russian market may be resumed after checking the producers.

As stated by Ibragim Mogushkov, the head of the Ingush Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), during ten months of this year the number of attempts on power agents in Ingushetia has double as compared with 2011. This figure matches the statistics of the "Caucasian Knot" gathered during ten months of this year and in 2011.

The investigation has finalized the inquiry into the criminal case against the hospital doctor in Stavropol, where a teenager died from burns received in a fire in a pressure chamber. The doctor is accused of causing death by negligence, the Territorial Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, at the sitting of the Krasnodar Territorial Court on the criminal case against alleged members of the Tsapok's gang, the motion to dismiss the presiding judge was denied for the third time.

The salary debt of the "Dagestani Airlines" to its employees is 30 million, said Abdula Angutaev, the acting director general of the company.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled that the case concerning the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov will be considered with participation of a jury. The selection of jurymen is scheduled for November 30; it will be made by the MCC.

These days, the Sports Palace in Baku is housing the World Boxing Championship among students. The fight in the ring between a Russian Shigabuddin Aliev from Dagestan and an Azerbaijani boxer Teymur Mamedov ended in a scandal; they both were disqualified for a brawl.

Residents of the village of Samtatskaro, Dedoplistskaroy District of Georgia, located on the Georgian-Azerbaijani border, held an action demanding to open the bridge that connects the two countries.

The Ministry of Culture and Protection of Monuments of Georgia has stated that will not revise the status or the name of the Museum of Soviet Occupation.

Today, Yerevan hosted a march of students, organized by the Students' Union of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) Dashnaktsutyun "Nikol Agbalyan". About 300 protesters demand from the government to revise tuition fees and provide social benefits.

The case initiated against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former employee of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, who is accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been transferred to the court, the Russia's GPO (General Prosecutor's Office) reports.

Today, another solo picket was held in front of the building of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a demand to the authorities of the Russian Federation to organize an emergency evacuation of Syrian Circassians to their historic homeland.

The defence of Sergey Tsapok, the alleged leader of the gang that committed the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, intends to seek for a repeated psychological-psychiatric examination of the defendant, said Igor Skripka, Tsapok's advocate.

Today, during the parties' debate, the prosecutor has asked to re-qualify the charge in the case of the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose punch a Moscow student Ivan Agafonov had died, to a softer one – "causing death by negligence", sentence the defendant to two years of freedom restraint and release him from custody.

The advocates of the young activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) will appeal to the Court of Cassation to challenge the verdict of the Appeals Court, said Vage Grigoryan, the advocate of Tigran Arakelyan, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for hooliganism. ANC supporters believe that the accused oppositionists can become political prisoners.

As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia, the republic has received 103 immigrants from Syria. The head of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab has ordered to pay a monthly allowance of 10,000 roubles (Russian rouble is the Abkhazian money) to each unemployed adult family member of repatriates and 3000 rouble per minor.

The Turkish authorities propose to open a transport corridor in North Ossetia to promote trade relations with regions of Russia and countries of Central Asia, as well as to start a bus service between the countries. This was stated on November 13 by Bulent Ugur Ecevit, the head of the delegation of the Ministry of Economy and Association of Exporters of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, at opening of the Russian-Turkish Business Forum in Vladikavkaz.