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The two local residents of the republic suspected of illegal possession of ammunition and explosives, the butcher-seller Mohammed Shakov and his master Islam Beshkurov, were detained with numerous procedural violations and tortured. This was stated by lawyer Magamed Abubakarov.

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) refused to change the journalist Fatullaev's freedom restriction measure - arrest - for release on bail or home arrest.

Tonight in Nazran unidentified criminal opened automatic fire on the car of Khusen Shadiev, editor-in-chief of the nationwide newspaper Ingushetia "Serdalo".

Today, the Independent Press Centre in Moscow hosted a press conference "Kuban, venue of 2014 Olympics, is the area of systemic human rights violations: raiders' attacks, corruption and falsification of criminal cases" with participation of residents of the Krasnodar Territory. After the press conference, activists held a picket with a demand of resignation of the leaders of the Krasnodar Territory.

In spite of the measures taken Nubarashen mortuary of pesticides in Armenia is a great threat for the residents and the environment. The danger will get even more severe in spring, first of all because of the fact that the mortuary is located in a landslide zone, the experts of the Word Bank declared.

Georgian trade unions decided to start fund-raising to pay off the ransom for the Georgian sailors captured by Somali pirates, Irakly Petriashvili, Chairman of the Association of Trade Unions of Georgia, reported.

A tanker of a Russian company "Novoship/Sovkomflot" NS Spirit (Novorossiisk, Krasnodar region) which was in the roads of Lagos sea-port in Nigeria was attacked this night, one of the sailors got wounded.

The personnel of Investigative Service of the Ministry of Finance sealed several drugstores in Tbilisi. According to preliminary data, the reason for doing so has been law violations in sales of psychotropic medications.

On November, 21, some unidentified people shot down a district militiaman and stole his Government-issue pistol in a district militia department of Nalchik, a source in law enforcement bodies reported.

On November 20, a picket was held in Taras Shevchenko Embankment in Moscow in support of the Balkars, who are holding their protest action in Manezh Square for many days already. The picket was initiated by Karachai and Balkar youth.

On November 19, the capital of North Ossetia started a daytime care centre for children suffering from cerebral palsy and Down's syndrome.

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.