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On Monday, November 22, Andrei Smaga, head of the section of Russia's interests at the Swiss Embassy in Georgia, visited the Russian citizens accused of espionage. Neither the Russian nor the Georgian parties make any comments on the meeting.

At the session of the Lefortovo District Court held on November 23 on selection of the further freedom restriction measure for Issa Khashagulgov, suspected of organizing the terror act in Vladikavkaz, extension of his custody was defined well in advance, his advocates assert.

On November, 23, a ceremony of awarding the laureates of international prize "Free Press" 2010 by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was held in New York, a thirty-one-year-old journalist from Dagestan, Nadira Isayeva, Editor-in-Chief of "Chernovik" ("Draft") weekly among them.

One more suspect of having committed the mass murder in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar region, was detained tonight. This is Igor Chernikh by alias of "Amur", born in 1965, previously convicted.

An armed attack upon the servicemen of a unit of federal military forces took place tonight in Urus-Martan foothill district of Chechnya. One of the servicemen got wounded in his head. Security officials are currently in search of the attackers.

During the inspection carried out by the republican Public Prosecutor's Office serious financial violations have been discovered in the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Ingushetia which may result in imposing penal sanctions.

The Head of a unit of the Center of Counteraction to extremism of district Department of Interior Affairs in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar region, is suspected of abuse of authority, Marina Gridneva, official representative of General Prosecutor's Office, reported on November, 23.

The main culprit of the tragedy in the Army of Nagorno-Karabakh became Manvel Azroyan, who shot at seven of his colleagues; then tried to commit suicide but survived. Azroyan was hazed and bullied by his comrades-in-arms. This is reported today by the Armenian newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time).

On November 22, the first United Day for Personal Reception of Citizens, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of the Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), held a meeting with residents of the region.

Alla Golovina, advocate of Sergey Tsapok, a suspect of organizing the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, has reported that she could not contact her client for five days.

Magomed Magomedov, a resident of the village of Chernyaevka, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, said that his cousin Sheikhulislam Abusupyanov, who was considered missing since November 18 and was found assassinated two days later, had been shadowed by unknown persons.

As reported by the spokesman of the Investigatory Department of the ICPO of Russia for Ingushetia, today in central Nazran, unidentified persons shelled a car and killed a man.

On Monday, November 22, in Brussels, officials of the European Union and Georgia signed the Readmission Agreement, which establishes mutual procedures for repatriation of illegal migrants.

In Georgia, full pardon on the occasion of St George's Day ("Giorgoba") was granted to 182 inmates; 32 other prisoners had their sentences halved; three others have their terms reduced; and for three more the conditional imprisonment was replaced by public works.

By November 22, practically all the regions of Russia's South, as well as the rest of the country, opened reception offices of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. The only exception is the Chechen Republic, where the building, appointed for the reception office, has not been repaired yet.

Speaking to the session of European Parliament, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated that his country will no longer try returning Abkhazia and South Ossetia by using military force, and asked the European Union (EU) to recognize occupation of his country by Russia.

In near future, ecological organizations plan to go to court in order to challenge the decision of Armenian government about exploration of uranium ore in the Syunik Region. Now they gather the necessary documents for filing a collective lawsuit.

In the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, a special office for investigating grave and especially grave crimes has resumed inquiry of 12 criminal cases of past years. The Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia reports that the inquiry has already reached positive results.

A military range located to Kurs district of Stavropol region where an active process of utilization of ammunition has been going on latterly causes serious problems for the residents of Nadterechny and Naur districts of Chechen Republic. Residents of these districts have already submitted the respective statement to the authorities of the republic. A delegation of the republican Parliament has visited these districts to familiarize with the situation.

A resident of Grozny died on November, 22, from a heart attack after a quarrel with the personnel of State Traffic Safety Inspectorate who ordered the elderly man to remove the tinting from his car glasses immediately. This news came from a non-governmental organization UNO (Union of Non-governmental Organizations) of Chechen Republic.