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On November 20, Yerevan will host a flashmob dedicated to the Song Contest "Junior Eurovision-2011"." In the centre of the capital of Armenia, the flashmob participants will embark on the long "Cascade" stairway forming the inscriptions "Junior Eurovision" and "2011 Dalita".

On November 18, a high foaming was observed in the Mzymta River and the Black Sea coastal areas adjacent to its mouth in the Krasnodar Territory; ecologists say about another discharge of harmful substances into the water.

On November 20, in Volgograd, a group of girls will hold an action "Roads-34" against the poor condition of city streets and sidewalks.

Russia plans to completely reconstruct the Gabala Radar Station (RS) in Azerbaijan, and at the same time to reduce the territory leased for the needs of the RS, said Anatoly Serdyukov, the Russian Minister of Defence.

Suren Khachatryan, Governor of the Syunik Region of Armenia, was summoned to the Special Investigatory Service and questioned within the criminal case regarding the beating of entrepreneur Silva Ambartsumyan.

Today, in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, law enforcers held a special operation and killed Arthur Amriev, who, according to their data, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.

On November 18, the capital of Georgia saw another protest rally of street traders held in front of the Parliament. The protesters demanded to legalize street trading.

Zargan Abdurakhmanova, a resident of the Darbankhi village, Gudermes District of Chechnya, has appealed to the republic's leadership with a request to find her son, who was kidnapped on September 2, 2011.

The bridge across the Volga River in Volgograd, which was closed in May 2010 due to strong vibrations, now has its counterweights (shock absorbers) in place. The cost of the works amounted to 112 million roubles.

This year, Kabardino-Balkaria registered 74 assaults on lives of law enforcers and militaries, Valery Ustov, the head of the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), said on November 17.

Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, has disappeared; the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from his wife Patimat Murshidova. Rasul Magomedov is the father of Maryam Sharipova, who, according to investigators, blew herself up in the Moscow metro in March 2009.

A large number of road accidents with severe consequences on motorways of Adygea are largely caused by poor drivers' training; and driving schools should be responsible for their low-skilled graduates, said Adam Bogus, the president of the Motor Racing Federation of Adygea, speaking to the roundtable dated to the World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims.

Akhmed Osmanov, 53, Imam Assistant in the village of Mutsalaul, was killed by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), said the Investigatory Committee of Dagestan.

The express train St Petersburg-Moscow, named "Neva-Express", which was twice - in 2007 and 2009 - attacked by terrorists, has set off with an hourly delay because of a false report of a bomb threat.

Chechen cities and districts have started forming Public Boards at the MIA units, the local law enforcement bodies report.

Nikolai Zhigun, the head of the investigatory division for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian MIA, has announced the completion of the inquiry of the criminal case initiated against the head of the cash-settlement centre of the city of Caucasian Mineral Waters (CMW), Stavropol Territory, who, according to the investigation, had stolen over one million roubles from the population.

The circumstances of the death of Mamuka Kakhishvili, a 19-year-old native of Georgia, who perished at detention by law enforcers, are now cleared out in Samara.

At confrontation with the villagers of Dolakovo, Ruslan Evkurov, a relative of the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, promised to give back the five million roubles, fraudulently received from them.

In five settlements of Yashkul district of Kalmykia names of persons who died long before, soldiers of statutory service and prisoners were found on the electoral lists.

"United Russia" party in Volgograd region involves priests in participation in the election campaign.