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This year, Kabardino-Balkaria registered 74 assaults on lives of law enforcers and militaries, Valery Ustov, the head of the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), said on November 17.

Rasul Magomedov, a resident of the village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, has disappeared; the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from his wife Patimat Murshidova. Rasul Magomedov is the father of Maryam Sharipova, who, according to investigators, blew herself up in the Moscow metro in March 2009.

A large number of road accidents with severe consequences on motorways of Adygea are largely caused by poor drivers' training; and driving schools should be responsible for their low-skilled graduates, said Adam Bogus, the president of the Motor Racing Federation of Adygea, speaking to the roundtable dated to the World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims.

Akhmed Osmanov, 53, Imam Assistant in the village of Mutsalaul, was killed by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), said the Investigatory Committee of Dagestan.

The express train St Petersburg-Moscow, named "Neva-Express", which was twice - in 2007 and 2009 - attacked by terrorists, has set off with an hourly delay because of a false report of a bomb threat.

Chechen cities and districts have started forming Public Boards at the MIA units, the local law enforcement bodies report.

Nikolai Zhigun, the head of the investigatory division for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian MIA, has announced the completion of the inquiry of the criminal case initiated against the head of the cash-settlement centre of the city of Caucasian Mineral Waters (CMW), Stavropol Territory, who, according to the investigation, had stolen over one million roubles from the population.

The circumstances of the death of Mamuka Kakhishvili, a 19-year-old native of Georgia, who perished at detention by law enforcers, are now cleared out in Samara.

At confrontation with the villagers of Dolakovo, Ruslan Evkurov, a relative of the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov, promised to give back the five million roubles, fraudulently received from them.

In five settlements of Yashkul district of Kalmykia names of persons who died long before, soldiers of statutory service and prisoners were found on the electoral lists.

"United Russia" party in Volgograd region involves priests in participation in the election campaign.

During investigation it emerged that Magomed Suleimanov arrested for suspicion of murder of colonel Yury Budanov may really be Yusup Temirkhanov. After finding out the suspect's real name representatives of the investigation state that the motive for the murder was Temirkhanov's personal revenge for his relative who perished during combat operations in Chechnya.

The police in Astrakhan region carried out a series of detentions of persons suspected of bribe-taking in health care institutions.

Members of the Regional Election Commission (REC) of the Rostov Region for the first time met NGOs' representatives who monitor preparations for the elections to the State Duma.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) urges the international community "not to condone" numerous human rights violations in Azerbaijan.

Testing for drug use of students of primary and secondary professional education institutions of the Rostov Region has identified cases of use of banned products among teenagers of the Rostov Region. This was reported on November 16 by Tatiana Bykovskaya, Regional Minister of Health. According to her, the testing identified 37 such teenagers; 3000 teenagers refused to participate in the event.

Ruslan Evkurov, born in 1978, the distant relative of Yunus-Beck Evkurov, President of Ingushetia, has been detained In Ingushetia. He is accused of fraud against the residents of the village of Dolakovo.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, six figurants in the case of a rape of an underage girl in a village of the republic have been already arrested. This was reported today by Valery Ustov, Chief of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

The court of general jurisdiction of the Lori Region (Armenia) pronounced the verdict against Serob Ter-Pogosyan, the major businessman, ex-Adviser to the Prime Minister, accused of sexual acts against minors. Serob Ter-Pogosyan was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment.

On November 17, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) held the initial court session chaired by Judge Gasan Akhmedov on the case of Movsum Samedov, the leader of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA), and six activists of the party and believers.