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In honour of Kurban Bairam holiday Religious Board of Moslems in Kalmykia allotted money for purchase of 50 sheep to poor believers. This was reported by Asludin Kalabegov, Deputy Chairman of Religious Board of Moslems.

One person got injured in the afternoon of October, 8, as a result of an explosion in a flat of a dwelling house in Volgograd, a source in law enforcement bodies of the city reported.

Svetlana Tsarukaeva, a Russian girl from North Ossetia, broke the world record in the spurt at the World Championship in weightlifting currently going on in Paris.

The Public Council of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has called on the managers of non-state media not to disseminate immoral programmes and articles, but to present the audience with a higher-quality content, which could contribute to the "positive image" of Northern Caucasus.

Staff members of the Pyatigorsk area museum have stopped destruction of the ancient mound in the village of Konstantinovskaya of the city of Pyatigorsk, where a developer started construction work and almost damaged graves.

On November 3, sanctions against the airline "Dagestani Airlines", banning flights to the EU, came into force. This was reported by a source in the "Rosaviatsiya" (Russian Federal Air Transport Agency).

Spartak Gogniev, the forwarder of the youth football team "Krasnodar", underwent surgery. At present, the athlete is in hospital.

Policemen detained four top-ranking employees of capital real estate companies suspected of embezzlement of more than one billion roubles, which had been handed out on forged documents to residents of Ingushetia.

In the mountains of Karachay-Cherkessia, a local resident affected by explosion of an improvised explosive device planted in a backpack which had been abandoned in the mountains. This was reported by a source in the law enforcement agencies of the region.

Residents of the city of Zverevo of Rostov Region, who held today a regular picket near the building of the city administration, complain that Mayor Alexander Chumakov refuses to start a dialogue and to listen to the protesters' demands. Officials from the city administration state that they are ready to participate in a constructive dialogue and they treat the today's picket as a "little provocation".

Nowhere in Russia, no victims of terror acts have been registered, and the fact that nobody cares of the victims is awful. This was emphasized by the authors of the project "White Book of Terror" at the presentation held at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU).

Investigators have filed a charge against Dmitry Putenikhin, the 21-year-old activist of the Other Russia, who splashed water in prosecutor, of threatening the life of the state official, who administered justice. This was reported today by the lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina.

The Federal Lezghin National and Cultural Autonomy (FLNCA) supported journalist Vladimir Solovyov, who spoke strongly against the Azerbaijani National Airline "AZAL", which had not allowed the Russian citizen Sergey Gyurdjian to enter an aircraft's board because of his Armenian origin.

Prosecutor General's sanctioned the indictment against Dmitry Shavelev, ex-operative inspector of Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Southern Federal okrug. He is accused of planting one kilogram heroin into the car belonging to Alexander Afanasiev, Director of OBI store in Volgograd.

In Melnikov street, South-East of Moscow, a modular temple in memory of the victims of terror in the Theatrical Center in Dubrovka which happened nine years ago is being built. The first stone was laid in the foundation of the temple in April, 2011, and the building is expected to be accomplished in 2012.

The Armenian of Istanbul collected forty thousand Turkish liras for the people who got injured in an earthquake in the Turkish province of Van. On November, 7, new earthquake shocks were registered in the region.

A supposed participant of armed underground detained on November, 3, in the foothill Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, is a native of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Chechen Republic reported.

Poisoning in the canteen of the Agricultural Academy in Nalchik; dismissals of high-ranking officials in Armenia; one year after the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory; actions on the National Unity Day in Southern Russia, the "Russian March" among them, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of October 31-November 6, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Yerevan, November 3 was the last day of the three-day seminar for judges and lawyers, organized by the Public Organization "Union of European Rights" with the support of the OSCE Office and US Embassy. According to the Chair of the "Union of European Rights", Armenian journalists, lawyers have very poor awareness in the sphere of the human right to the freedom of speech; and the seminar was aimed at repairing the situation.

In Dagestan, Naima Alborueva, the mother of the kidnapped Fatima Alborueva, complains about inaction of law enforcers; however, the local MIA claims that they run a proper inquiry into the crime.