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On November 12, in Tbilisi, the book by Thomas de Vaal, a senior expert on the Caucasus at the Carnegie Centre "The Caucasus: Introduction to Conflict" was presented.

The Legal Committee of the Parliament of Georgia has drafted a bill "On Free Media Outlets", which refers to transparency of media ownership.

Ali-Hadji Evteev, ex-Mufti of North Ossetia, who resigned after his scandalous interview about his vision of Islam, has left Russia, as reported on November 12 by a source from the Ministry for Nationalities of North Ossetia.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is creating a computer game named "Police", where the main heroes will be policemen, fighting against the crime, including a Russian spy acting in Georgia.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, in the village of Uchkeken, Malokarachaev District, a Republic's medrese for orphans and children from poor families was opened.

At its regular meeting held on Saturday, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Azerbaijan considered 31 applications received in connection with the recent parliamentary elections.

The Prosecutor's Office and the regional branch of the Penitentiary Service have stepped up their control over the detention facilities located in the Rostov Region. Local human rights activists mark changes for the better with observance of human rights in local prisons and jails.

As reported by the spokesman of the republic's MIA, tonight unidentified persons opened fire on militiamen in the Lakskiy District of Dagestan; there were no casualties or victims.

Today, the members of the organization named "Beslan Mothers" have expressed their protest against the repair and construction works carried out in School No. 1, which was attacked by terrorists in September 2004.

Somalia pirates have captured the tanker "MV Hannibal II" under the guise of Panama, which was sailing from Malaysia to Egypt. There are 31 persons on board of the vessel, a native of Georgia and a Russian citizen among them.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation, today the court has satisfied the petition of the investigation and sanctioned arrest of the fourth suspect in the murder case of 12 persons committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.

The defence of journalist Einullah Fatullaev and some public figures of Azerbaijan believe that the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan on enforcement of the verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the case of the journalist was illegitimate.

Several persons were hospitalized after a leakage of poisonous gas in the city of Rustavi (Eastern Georgia). The victims work at the "Dzheostil" Factory in the territory of the Rustavi Metallurgical Plant.

Sirazhuddin (Sergey) Pigarev, a resident of the capital of Dagestan, who worked in one of Makhachkala polyclinics, asserts that he lost his job because of harassment by law enforcers.

Galim Galimov, Mayor of the city named Dagestanskie Ogni has apologized to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Blueprint), for the incident on November 9, when employees of the city Mayoralty attacked the journalist in the building of the city administration. According to Galimov, he was not aware of what was happening.

Advocates of the convicts for murdering Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev have presented a letter to the court of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed by Isa Yamadaev, in which he renounces his claims against all those accused of attacking his brother within all the civil and criminal cases.

On November, 11, a trial in camera on a suit of Wanadzor office of Helsinki Civil Assembly against the Minister of Defense Seiran Oganyan was held in the Administrative Court of Armenia.

In the evening of November, 11, some unidentified persons fired upon the district militia officer's house in the settlement of Sergokala, Sergokala district of Dagestan, no one was injured, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

Pyatimat Khashagulgova, resident of Karabulak, wife of Issa Khashagulgov suspected of terrorism, told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot" that she still could not take her children to school and was also concerned about her relatives' security.

Zaruii Postanjyan, Deputy of the parliamentary fraction of "Heritage" party, visited Nicola Pashinyan, Editor-if Chief of "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper condemned in connection with post-election events of 2008, in prison. During the visit Pashinyan told her that at night when he was asleep two masked people wearing black clothes attacked him and started beating him up.