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Today, Vienna saw the first court session considering the murder case of Umar Israilov, a native of Chechnya and ex-security guard of Ramzan Kadyrov. Enhanced security measures have been introduced by the police in the district where the litigation takes place.

In Dagestan, Cossacks have ever been, above all, a binding link between all nationalities; it was stated by Zirkula Ilyasov, First Deputy Minister for National Policy, Religion Matters and Foreign Relations of Dagestan. Enver Kisriev, a researcher of the Caucasian, believes that there is no serious conflict between Dagestanis and Cossacks in the republic; while Hadjimurat Kamalov, founder of the newspaper "Chernovik", confirms this idea and indicates that local Cossacks have become more a cultural phenomenon than a military force.

Last night, in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, unidentified persons shot dead a GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) senior militia lieutenant. On this fact, a criminal case was opened under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Eighty-one percent of Armenians are convinced that the country has a problem of inequality of men and women in their representation in power bodies. Of them, 38 percent of respondents believe the problem is very acute, and only 15 percent believe that the quantitative inequality is not a problem. The study was conducted within the framework of the Programme "Women's capacity building in peace construction in Southern Caucasus".

One of the detainees in the case of murdering 12 persons in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory - Sergey Tsepovyaz, - is a deputy of the rural settlement. This was reported today by a source from the administration of the Kuschevskiy District.

In the southwest of Chechnya, in the foothill Achkhoi-Martan district, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) detained a man of 50, suspected of involvement in kidnapping. The alleged kidnapper was released under recognizance not to leave.

Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of the Chechen President, filed a civil claim on his own behalf on protection of business reputation against the Human Rights Society "Memorial", demanding compensation of 500,000 roubles.

Members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee blocked themselves in the courtroom in Beslan in response to decision of Judge Tsallaev to deprive Alan Tagaev, a victim of the terror act in Beslan in September 2004 and brother of Ella Kesaeva, the leader of the Committee, of his driver's license for 18 months.

On November 14, in the car market located in the outskirts of Urus-Martan, a district capital, local militiamen opened fire and beat two young men, who later were detained and taken away to some unknown place. This was reported by local residents, who added that tinted car glasses were the reason of the incident. Power agents refrain from comments.

Elena Ivanova, a resident of the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, states that her daughter - Ruzana Ivanova, born in 1997, - disappeared in the morning of November 10 in Makhachkala. A few days later the Ivanov family received a demand of 50,000-rouble ransom for her liberation.

The documentary by Valery Balayan "Love Me, Please" dedicated to Anastasia Baburova, who was assassinated on January 19, 2009, together with lawyer Stanislav Markelov, has been taken away from the programme of two festivals held in Moscow. The organizers referred to "security considerations" as the main reason of cancellation.

On November, 13, a circular table meeting "Problems of education in the context of national security" was held during which a reform on Nagorno-Karabakh educational system was discussed. High-level personnel of Nagorno-Karabakh educational sphere, representatives of institutes of higher education, colleges, senior schools and civil activists had been invited to the meeting.

On November, 14, a meeting devoted to the culture of the Abasin people was held in one of the Moscow restaurants within the framework of "Face to Face" lecture centre. Bella Shahmirza, organizer of the meeting, said that over 100 people identifying themselves as members of more than 20 ethnic communities were present.

In the afternoon of November, 14, a militia officer in Dagestan who was undergoing treatment connected with arm fracture in Khasavjurt municipal hospital was killed by unidentified people, standby unit of Khasavjurt Department of Interior Affairs reported.

Today, in a special operation, conducted by law enforcers in the city of Buinaksk, Dagestan, three militants were killed. This was reported by law enforcement structures of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Today, activists of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan" have held a picket in Vladikavkaz with a demand to pass a law on the status of victims of terror acts and investigate the terror acts committed in the territory of the republic.

Young artists, designers, journalists and students of the Rostov Region have presented several dozens of works on the topic of fighting corruption within the contest of social advertisements "Clean Hands", said the spokesperson of the press service of the Committee on Youth Politics of the regional capital.

Unidentified persons attacked Igor Pykhalov, author of books on Soviet history and Internet project "For Stalin!" whose work on Stalin's deportation of Chechens and Ingushes caused mixed reaction, including in the Caucasus.

The Chief Department of the MIA in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has organized the work of the telephone "trust line" to be used by citizens to report information about prepared or committed crimes, as reported by Vladislav Prokofiev, head of the department of records and regime of the above Department.

On November 12, workers of the Taganrog Automobile Factory, located in the Rostov Region, stopped their work for several hours, demanding payment of outstanding wages.