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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.

The Antiterrorist Commission of the Volgograd Region has decided to set up a counter-terror information group, comprised of representatives of scientific and creative intellectuals, public figures, clergymen, special agents and administrative officials.

On November 10 in Yerevan, a group of prisoners with AIDS aiming to express their protest against their custody, climbed onto the roof of the penal institution "Hospital for Convicts" of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

On November 10, in the Krasnodar Territory, young deputies of the Slavianskiy District held an ecological action "Clean Beach" on the coast of the Azov Sea.

Valery Morozov, head of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Moskonversprom", who stated earlier about corruption schemes used in construction of Olympic objects in Sochi with participation of Kremlin officials, believes that he is under pressure in the form of unjustified claims of tax authorities. The Tax Inspection has moved a bill of 113 million roubles to him.

Georgia found spies again; parties in Nagorno-Karabakh conflict exchange casualties and captives; more than 50 percent of voters took part in parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan; mass celebrations of the National Unity Day in southern Russia have been massive celebration, - look these and other events in the review of the week of November 1-7, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Yesterday, on November 10, the South-Ossetian party handed a citizen of Georgia, 15, who was detained on November 9 at crossing the border, in the official order to representatives of the Georgian MIA.

Seven militiamen were killed; seven more persons, including one militiaman and six occasional passers-by, were wounded in a series of attacks on various objects in Makhachkala. Four attackers also perished; the car, in which they tried to escape, blew up.

On November 10, Ummupazil Omarova, Ombudsperson in Dagestan, visited Murtazali Adukhov, a patient of the trauma ward of the central city hospital Khasavyurt, who, according to his story, was severely beaten on November 8 by militiamen of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division).

Today, the Plenum of the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has considered, at its extraordinary sitting, the issue of implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in relation to imprisoned journalist Einullah Fatullaev.