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The government of Nagorno-Karabakh has passed a statement, according to which people with hearing impairments are allowed to drive a car; earlier it was forbidden.

Today, the Sabail District Court of Baku has announced its ruling on the claim of the convicted journalist Fatullaev against the Baku City Prosecutor's Office. Judge Elnur Gasanov has rejected the claim lodged by the journalist who had stated violation of his presumption of innocence.

Today, Azerbaijan has handed over the body of Manvel Saribekyan, who committed suicide, to the Armenian party, while Armenia has liberated from captivity Eldar Tagiev, a citizen of Azerbaijan, as reported by the State Commission of Azerbaijan for Prisoners of War, Hostages and Missing Citizens.

The Mission of European Union in Baku has announced a competition for participation in two programs supporting civil society in Azerbaijan to the sum of 1,9 million euros.

"Armavia" Company, national air carrier of Armenia, has expanded the geography of its flights and established special through rates which will allow it to deliver the passengers to several cities within one flight.

Refugees from Abkhazia and South Osetia in Georgia will now be able to sell the dwellings granted to them by the state without paying taxes.

On November, 2, Seiran Oganyan, Minister of Defense of Armenia, had a meeting with the parents of the servicemen, fallen soldiers-liberators and reserve officers and promised the parents of fallen servicemen the cases of whose death were under investigation by law enforcement bodies that all those guilty of their death would be punished as strictly as the law permits.

The first criminal case, after the authorities introduced a ban on bride abduction, has been initiated in Chechnya on the fact of abducting a woman with the aim to force her into marriage. However, the case is unusual: a man abducted his ex-wife.

Today, foreign ministers of Georgia and Iran - Grigol Vashadze and Manouchekhr Mottaki - signed a document on introduction of visa-free regime for citizens of both countries.

A resident of the Baksan District, Kabardino-Balkaria, has suffered from the explosion, triggered today, when a militia car was moving along the federal highway in the Elbrus District.

Today, the Labour Party of Georgia filed a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court in the context of introduction of new rules of paying for communal utilities.

On November 25, the session of the Khamovniki Magistrate Court in Moscow, which considers the criminal lawsuit of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", will hear the defence and so-called "neutral" witnesses, said Genry Reznik, the defendant's advocate.

A ceremony of awarding a prize "For Freedom of Press" 2010 of the Association of Publishes IPA Freedom to Publish Prize was held on November, 2, in Istanbul. The prize was granted to DOSH independent Caucasian journal published in Russia.

Journalist Einulla Fatullayev who is serving his term of imprisonment in Azerbaijan and Elchin Sadygov, his attorney, have submitted to Nasim district court of Baku a lawsuit against Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan. The lawsuit is connected with keeping the journalist in prison in spite of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights of his immediate release.

On November, 4, activists of youth movement "Ara" will have a meeting with the families from Tbilisi who have remained homeless in order to draw up a joint appeal to the Georgian authorities demanding to solve the problems of displaced persons.

A trial on the appeal of Usman Garisov, resident of Dagestan who on June, 19, was sentenced by Kusar district court to four years of imprisonment in a general regime colony for accusation of contraband and use of drugs, was accomplished in the Appellate Court of Azerbaijan under the chairmanship of judge Mubariz Zeinalov.

Violations in the course of the election campaign in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic were reported today during a press conference by three candidates to the Parliament of Azerbaijan from the opposition block "PPFA-Musavat".

In Georgia, the NGO named "House of Free Thought" has moved an initiative to declare November 7 the "Day of Dignity" in memory of the events of 2007, when the authorities dispersed the action of the opposition; and then announced the state of emergency in Georgia.

The first case in Chechnya after introduction of an official ban on bride abduction with the aim to force a girl into marriage may remain without consequences for the kidnappers. It became clear that the 14-year-old schoolgirl figuring in the case herself had asked her husband to abduct her, as reported by a source from the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The Government of Kabardino-Balkaria is launching electronic document management. Residents of the republic will now be able to receive state services via Internet, Alii Musukhov, Minister of Economic Development and Commerce, reported on November, 2.