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Yusup Dzangiev, arrested by the court of Vladikavkaz on suspicion of committing the explosion in the city marketplace September 9 and other terror acts, was previously accused of involvement in the murder of family members of the teacher Vera Draganchuk on August 31, 2007, in Ingushetia; however, he was released without charges.

A local resident was injured by an explosion that happened near the marketplace in the city of Nazran and hospitalized.

As a result of another incident on the contact line of Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan, four soldiers were killed from a machinegun; four others were wounded.

Khanifat Gichueva, a resident of the Chernyaevka village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband Sheikhulislam Abusupyanov, who disappeared on November 18, was found dead.

As a result of a conflict between employees of the commercial bank and their customers in the city of Derbent in Dagestan one person was killed and two more hospitalized.

The Georgian State Commission on Pardons has prepared a pardon list for President Mikhail Saakashvili. The pardon will be dated to November 23 - one of the most popular national holidays of Georgia - Giorgoba (St George's Day).

This year, at the international documentary film festival in the Netherlands, the right to present her best ten films was granted to Finnish film director Pirjo Khonkassalo. She brought to the festival a film about the war in Chechnya, where heroes are members of the Gataev Chechen family.

The Somalia pirates who captured a ship of a Greek company with 15 Georgian and 3 Turkish citizens on board announced on November 16 that if they do not receive 15 million US dollars within three days, they will kill the hostages and sink the ship.

Egle Kusaite, a young Lithuanian woman, accused of creating a group for committing a terror act on some military object in Russia, said that she had given confessional evidences in exchange for promises that her friends from near Moscow - Chechen Aishat and Apti Magmadov - would be left alive. Egle told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a meeting in Vilnius.

Sergey Basmanov, Director of human rights center "Defense of Citizens' Rights and Interests" in Sochi, who had formerly reported threats against him declared that the personnel of law enforcement bodies have treated him improperly.

The action, which took place on November 18, the World Day of Quitting Smoking, in Rostov-on-Don showed that smokers are tough in quitting the habit.

Three officials of the Department of Federal Service of Drug Traffic Control (FSDTC) of Russia in Dagestan were detained on November, 18, for suspicion of bribery.

At night on November 19, unidentified assailants shelled the military unit and police station in the village of Khunzakh, the Khunzakh District, with grenade launchers; no one was hurt.

Yesterday at about 22:05 some unidentified persons fired upon a roadside cafe from a grenade launcher and self-firers in Derbent district of Dagestan. There are no victims or injured persons, the building got insignificantly damaged. Law enforcement bodies are currently searching the criminals.

Early in the morning of November, 19, Salyan district court of Azerbaijan granted the petition of a young blogger Emin Milly for early release for he had served over a half of his penalty term.

Almost every day militia bulletins in the Rostov Region state detection of banknotes with signs of forgery. According to the regional GUVD (Chief Interior Department), for the first 9 months of 2010, 1008 criminal cases were initiated under Article 186 of the Criminal Code (manufacture, storage, transportation or sale of counterfeit money or securities); of them, 113 criminal cases has been sent to the court, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The Vienna Court, which is hearing the murder case of Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of President of Chechnya, assassinated in Austria, wants to interrogate the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov by means of a videoconference.

Today, the Lenin District Court of Vladikavkaz has decided on the freedom restriction measure in relation to Yusup Dzangiev, detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of terrorist activities.

Nana Pipiya, who tried to commit self-immolation in front of the Ministry for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation, has died in the Georgian burn centre, as reported by employees of the centre.

A protest rally of local residents is planned for November 20 in the district centre of Achkhoi-Martan in Chechnya; they want to demand from Russian authorities to stop the terror practiced by law enforcement bodies.