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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.

For several days in a row, senior pupils of several Tbilisi schools were holding actions with a demand from the Ministry of Education and Sciences to cancel the eight certification exams introduced during this school year. The last action of this sort was held on November 9.

Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, met in London with the heads of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and asked for help in saving the Georgian sailors, for more than two months kept by Somalia pirates.

An investigation of a criminal case against a resident of the settlement of Demino accused according to part 1, clause 282 "Fomentation of hatred and animosity and derogation of human dignity" of Criminal code of the Russian Federation has been accomplished in Stavropol. This news came from Olga Naumenko, Aid Head of Stavropol inter-regional investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation in the district, on November, 10.

Yesterday, November, 10, militia personnel searched the flat of Mikhail Piskunov, student of Novosibirsk State University and one of the organizers of an abandoned show of a documentary about murdered journalist Anastasia Baburova.

A 24-year-old resident of Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya was kidnapped last night not far from "Caucasus" federal highway. This news has been reported by the kidnapped young man's relatives who are still unable to find out where he is.

A worker of an enterprise "Chechenlesprom" was blown up by a trip-wire mine during timber harvesting works in the South of Chechnya. The man remained alive only by a lucky chance and even got no missile wounding.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has promulgated its decisions on the cases of the former minister for economic development of Azerbaijan Farkhad Aliev and former president of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Academician Eldar Salaev.

In South Ossetia, near the settlement of Grom, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, a border infringer was detained. This was reported by the press service of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia. The Georgian party asserts that the detention was illegal.

The official Baku believes that the statements of US and EU officials that the November 7 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan failed to meet international standards, suffer from real grounds, since the elections, according to the country's leadership, took place in democratic environment.

In the Krasnodar Territory, two men have been detained, whom the investigation believes as being involved in the mass murder on November 5 in the house of a farmer in the village of Kuschevskaya. According to preliminary data, personal enmity could be the motive of the massacre.

The folk arts festival, dated to the Tolerance Day, is held in Adygea for the third year in a row. This time, the festival on November 10-12 has attracted dozens of students not only from Maikop, as it was before, but from districts of Adygea - representatives of various nationalities. The Tolerance Day is annually marked worldwide on November 16.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia is clearing out the reason of the fire that burst out in the Sukhumi Clinical Hospital on November 9 and caused human deaths. According to GPO officials, the ignition was a result of breaching fire safety regulations.

Today, the court has considered the complaint of lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by militiamen on June 17 in the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Khasavyurt. The court has satisfied the petition lodged by Magomedova's advocates and asking to conduct a forensic examination of the records presented by the investigation. According to the defence, the documents have attributes of a service forgery.