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Nature Conservation Inspection of Armenia has fined Zamgezur cuprum-molybdenum enterprise to 100 thousand drams (less than 300 dollars) for 50 ton "tails" (waste products) leak into the river of Vokhchi. The environment damage itself was estimated a little higher, i.e. 650 thousand drams (about 1 800 dollars), the ecologists report.

Residents of Nagorno-Karabakh dream of peace most of all and have a distrust towards international organizations. This was indicated by the first international questioning carried out in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh by the organization "European Friends of Armenia".

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed today by Ivan Sengerov, assistant of the head of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) for the region, that currently dissemination of information about the investigation into the massacre in the Kuschevskaya village, Krasnodar Territory, is limited.

The co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict Bernard Fassier (France), Robert Bradtke (USA) and Igor Popov (Russia), together with the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairman-in-Office Andrzej Kasprzyk, held a three-day - on November 25-27 - talks in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Today, rallies of deceived real estate investors were held in several cities of Russia, including Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar.

About 40 houses were damaged on Friday because of floods caused by rains in the Tuapse District, Krasnodar Territory. As reported by the press service of the Southern Regional Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation, tonight a storm warning was announced in this and the Apsheron District; flooding of certain dwelling settlements was announced possible.

Militiamen have detained four natives of the Chechen Republic - residents of the city of Zelenokumsk, Stavropol Territory, who probably instigated a conflict with local youth with use of traumatic pistols and firearms.

Georgia was awarded the right to host the Summer European Youth Olympic Festival in 2015. The decision was made today in Belgrade at the 39th Session of the General Assembly of the European Olympic Committee, which was attended by National Olympic Committees of 49 countries of the continent.

Today, Russia commemorates victims of the terror act committed in the evening on November 27 last year with the "Neva-Express" train. As a result of the train crash 28 persons were lost and more than 90 were injured.

Fishermen of the agrarian company "Novaya Zhizn" (New Life), which is an affiliate of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "RUST-Invest", located in Privolnaya village, Kanev District of the Krasnodar Territory, state that for many months they get no wages, while the fishery itself is in crisis. The told about it in their open letter addressed to the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachov.

Unidentified criminals have undermined a section of the railway track in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan; and then shelled the unit of the militia and interior troops, which guarded the railway line, injuring one soldier.

The expert commission of the Academic Council of the History Department of the Moscow State University (MSU), which comprises historians from several universities, recognized the higher school textbook on Russian history, written by MSU Professors Alexander Vdovin and Alexander Barsenkov, which aroused criticism because of the data about Chechens placed in it, as "inappropriate."

Starting from November 23, the city of Ardon, North Ossetia, hosts the action named "For My Clean City". It will last till April 23, 2011. The organizers of the action were the district department for education and the environmental council of the House of Children's Creativity.

On November 25, Cossacks from the city of Anapa smashed the fence erected by builders in the forest of the reserve "Bolshoi Utrish", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Andrei Rudomakha, coordinator of the "Ecological Watch in Northern Caucasus".

According to a source in investigatory bodies of the Southern Federal District (SFD), Igor Chernykh, who was detained on charges of mass murder in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, was arrested.

On November 25, in the village of Kenzhe, a suburb of Nalchik, at the gate of his house, a local resident Timur Mechukaev, 33, was shot dead; he was a son of Azret Mechukaev, former head of the Republic's Bureau of Forensic-Medical Examination.

Late at night on November 25 unidentified persons threw a grenade into the car of the head of the Kayakent ROVD (District Interior Division) in Dagestan; the militiaman was slightly wounded, as reported by regional law enforcement bodies.

Relatives of Mohammed Shakov and Islam Beshkurov, detained in Kabardino-Balkaria and suspected of illegal possession of ammunition, declare innocence of these guys and demand investigation into their beatings. Their advocate asserts that after arrival of the petition about illegal methods of investigation to the prosecutor's office, filed on November 19, his clients have not yet been interrogated.

In Tbilisi, at the building of the Parliament, another rally of opposition parties is held today; about 500 have gathered for the action.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made a decision on the murder of four young residents of Chechnya in 2000.