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"United Russia" party in Volgograd region involves priests in participation in the election campaign.

During investigation it emerged that Magomed Suleimanov arrested for suspicion of murder of colonel Yury Budanov may really be Yusup Temirkhanov. After finding out the suspect's real name representatives of the investigation state that the motive for the murder was Temirkhanov's personal revenge for his relative who perished during combat operations in Chechnya.

The police in Astrakhan region carried out a series of detentions of persons suspected of bribe-taking in health care institutions.

Members of the Regional Election Commission (REC) of the Rostov Region for the first time met NGOs' representatives who monitor preparations for the elections to the State Duma.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) urges the international community "not to condone" numerous human rights violations in Azerbaijan.

Testing for drug use of students of primary and secondary professional education institutions of the Rostov Region has identified cases of use of banned products among teenagers of the Rostov Region. This was reported on November 16 by Tatiana Bykovskaya, Regional Minister of Health. According to her, the testing identified 37 such teenagers; 3000 teenagers refused to participate in the event.

Ruslan Evkurov, born in 1978, the distant relative of Yunus-Beck Evkurov, President of Ingushetia, has been detained In Ingushetia. He is accused of fraud against the residents of the village of Dolakovo.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, six figurants in the case of a rape of an underage girl in a village of the republic have been already arrested. This was reported today by Valery Ustov, Chief of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

The court of general jurisdiction of the Lori Region (Armenia) pronounced the verdict against Serob Ter-Pogosyan, the major businessman, ex-Adviser to the Prime Minister, accused of sexual acts against minors. Serob Ter-Pogosyan was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.

On November 17, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) held the initial court session chaired by Judge Gasan Akhmedov on the case of Movsum Samedov, the leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA), and six activists of the party and believers.

The funeral of the poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov killed in Moscow was conducted in the village of Znamenskoye of the Nadterechny District of Chechnya, where he was born. Opinions of the representatives of the Chechen Diaspora on the causes of murder have differed: some people explain it by the nationalists' revenge for Colonel Yuri Budanov's murder; the others blame representatives of the very Chechen Diaspora.

Central district court of Sochi acknowledged a district police officer from one of the police departments of the health resort guilty of committing forgery by an official.

Law enforcement bodies have successfully prevented over 50 acts of terror in Northern Caucasus during the ten months of the current year, however, operative situation in the region remains tense, Head of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Russian Federation Rashid Nurgaliev reported.

The fourth contest of journalists' works "Na/Ne" started in Armenia. The goal of the contest is studying materials from mass media on women's activities and achievements in the sphere of politics, social life and economy during the year and growth of the interest to this issue in the future.

Refugees from South Ossetia, who had been evicted in August from the Hotel "Abkhazia" in the city of Tbilisi, where they stayed for more than twenty years, demand to review the issue of their cash compensations.

All the 14 oppositional activists detained on November 15 during the protest action in the centre of Baku, demanding release of political prisoners in the evening of that day, were released from the police station after a warning. This was reported by Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

On November 15 at the joint meeting of the Security Council, the Anti-Terrorism Committee and the Control Headquarters of Dagestan, the Dagestani leader Magomedsalam Magomedov invited the heads of the territorial offices of the federal agencies engaged in ecological issues, to resign and called them "breeding grounds for corruption in the republic."

Azerbaijan and World Bank (WB) signed a loan agreement amounted to 50 million US dollars for the project to improve living conditions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the zone of the Karabakh conflict. The loan is given for 20 years with a five-year grace period.

In Moscow, a waiter of the restaurant "Sheikh's Treasure" found a pistol. It was revealed that the pistol belonged to Zelimkhan Mazaev, who was put in international wanted list by the United Arab Emirates for the murder of Sulim Yamadaev, Hero of Russia. However, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Zelimkhan Mazaev is not listed in the Russian wanted lists. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies.

Residents of the city of Zverevo of the Rostov Region again started daily picket in Rostov-on-Don. Pensioners and former miners demand to respond to the audit of the Housing conducted in the city concerning the revision of utility rates, regulations, and preferences for heating. However, the Regional Ministry of Housing states that this information will be ready by the end of the week.