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Gela Mtivlishvili, the head of the independent agency "Kakheti Information Centre" filed a complaint to the Georgian Prosecutor's Office against the threatening letters, which he received on his email in the name of Levan Sachishvili, ex-Prosecutor of Kakheti.

Activists of the organization "Service to Protect Citizens' Rights and Interests" have loaded to the Internet audio recordings in which Anatoly Pakhomov, Mayor of Sochi, his Deputy Nikolai Ermolov, the entrepreneur Viktor Teplyakov, the coordinator of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, and officers from the Division "E" of the UVD (Interior Department) talked to human rights defenders on the eve of their action and used threats. Anatoly Pakhomov himself believes that the story with audio recordings on the Internet can be a provocation against him.

Police officers of Rostov Region have detained a CEO of a managing company in the city of Novocherkassk on suspicion of fraud with utilities payments for the amount of 13.5 million roubles.

Today, in the centre of Yerevan activists of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) held a demonstration and a flash mob dated to the celebration of World Youth Day.

According to local residents, several firms in Chechnya have been ordered to cover heads of women on billboards.

On November 10, at the Rostov Regional Court the lawyer of Pavel Efremov, the defendant in the case of terrorism, claimed violation of rights for defence and poor conditions of detention of the defendant in SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Today, the court continues to listen to the victims on the case of attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005. The victims testify on the episode of attack on the regiment of the patrol-and-post service (PPS). In particular, Lera Erizhokova talked about how her house burned down and how her son-in-law was detained.

Maxim Slipchenko, an activist of the movement "Left-Wing Front", detained in Rostov-on-Don, who on November 7 went on a hunger strike at the police station, has been released.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) upheld the complaint filed by the Chechen woman-resident Gizhan Sambieva, the mother of Said-Emin Sambiev, who had been kidnapped and murdered in 2003. The ECtHR has obliged the Russian Federation to pay her compensation.

The parents whose children were HIV infected in 1988-1989 and who won their case against the Republican Children's hospital in the court of the town of Elista are dissatisfied with the judgment.

Today the second stage of the all-Russian anti-narcotic action "Report the place of death traffic!" which will last till November, 18, started in Chechnya.

Local Public prosecutor's office in Geneva suspects of swindle Chechen businessman Bulat Chagaev, ex-Vice President of "Terek" club, presently President of Swiss football club "Xamax".

The Azerbaijani State Committee for Working with Religious Structures is ignoring the court decision, which has obliged the Committee to lift restrictions on importation of religious literature of Jehovah's Witnesses to the country, believers assert.

The Georgian section of the Swiss Embassy to the Russian Federation has again faced problems: the business centre, housing the consular department of the Georgian Interests Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Moscow, for several weeks has electricity outage, Nino Kalandadze, Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a press briefing.

In Donetsk, Rostov Region, policemen have dismantled about two kilometres of illegal underground pipeline, which was transporting POL (petroleum, oil, lubricants) to the territory of Ukraine.

The main topic discussed on November 8 in Gori at the meeting organized by the NGO named GARB (Georgian Association of Regional Broadcasters) was the issue of detention of the persons who cross the border of Georgia with South Ossetia.

Today in the city of Yaroslavl, Abdulmadjid (Arthur) Manukyan, 29, a native of Dagestan and the deputy imam of the central city mosque, was found dead at the door of his own apartment.

Today, Russia and Georgia have signed a bilateral agreement relating to customs administration and monitoring of trade in goods. The document should remove the last obstacle to Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO).

On November 8, the Pervomaiskiy District Court of Krasnodar sentenced Alexander Starchkov, the former deputy head of the Department of the Federal Migration Service (DFMS) of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory, to one year of imprisonment in a settlement-colony. According to the investigation, Starchkov had hired an employee, allowed him not to work and helped him to get promoted to the rank of a captain of internal troops, said the spokesman from the Territorial Prosecutor's Office.

A special stamp will be put on the inner side of the back part of the cover in the passport of each citizen of South Ossetia who has taken part in the presidential election on November, 13. Members of Central Election Committee consider that this will disallow anyone to vote twice.