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On November 4, an action was held in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria with a demand of a fair sentence to Aslan Cherkesov convicted of murdering the football fan Yegor Sviridov. About three hundred people blocked the Federal Highway Rostov-Baku at the exit from Nalchik at the Arch of Triumph in the "Strelka" District.

In the morning on November 3, the forced migrants or internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Ossetia, who have been living for about twenty years in the so-called "temporary accommodation centres" (TACs), located in the territory of Ingushetia, were disconnected from the electricity supply. Around 200 persons, including elderly ones, invalids and children, remained without power. After their complaints, the electricity supply was resumed; however, the refugees fear that all the utilities may be cut off.

Today, it is one year after the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, when the name of the small Russian village became a household word.

Today, the Baku Appeal Court considered the appeal complaints against the decisions of the Nizami District Court on the case of the arrested editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. The verdict of the first instance was upheld.

On November 3, the Nasimi District Court of Baku, chaired by Judge Etibar Gumbatov, considered the complaint lodged by lawyer Khalid Bagirov against the Azerbaijani Bar Association, in which the lawyer demanded to recognize the decision of the Presidium of the Bar to suspend his lawyer's license illegal. The Court denied his petition.

The journalists of the newspaper "Armenian Panorama", which is published in the Stavropol Territory, have addressed their open letter to Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), stating that passengers of Armenian air flights, including citizens of Russia, are regularly insulted at the Mineralnye Vody Airport.

On November 1-3, during three days of the solidarity action, 3932 new accounts were opened in the bank "Kartu" owned by the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, Nodar Djavakhishvili, Director General of the bank, said today.

The participants of the "Russian March" had no problems in walking through the streets of Stavropol and Pyatigorsk; while Rostov-on-Don reports about detention of 30-70 participants of the unsanctioned action.

Relatives of Rizvan Abusupyanov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal-Station of the Kirov District of Makhachkala and father of four children, who was kidnapped on October 27, prepare to hold protest demanding to accelerate the search of the missing person.

The Antidiscrimination Centre (ADC) "Memorial" has drawn attention to the situation in the Roma community of the township of Verkhnyaya Elshanka of the city of Volgograd, where residents face a threat of eviction. Human rights activists have sent their appeal to the Mayoralty calling to settle the land problem of the Roma community.

A lieutenant of Azerbaijani army was killed in the zone of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan reported.

Free courses of learning Russian for migrants arriving in Stavropol region opened in Pyatigorsk.

The court in Dagestan sentenced ex-head of Administration of the settlement of Novosasitly, Khasavyrt district, to three years of custody for misappropriation of pensions to a sum of over one million rubles.

A meeting of women participants of a dialogue aimed at returning mutual understanding between representatives of Russian and Georgian communities is going on in Rostov-on-Don.

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.