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Djubairiyat Paizullaeva, a native of the city of Izberbash, claimed that officials refused to give out the body of Shamil Paizullaev, her son, to her. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, on June 19, he was killed when he rendered resistance to the police officers.

Today, more than 50 deceived co-investors of construction companies in Azerbaijan held three protest actions in Baku.

The territory of Abkhazia has been cleared of mines. This was reported by the British de-mining NGO Halo Trust. In this regard, the organization almost closed its activities in the country.

The case of former Armenian military prisoner Arthur Badalyan was registered in the European Court of Human Rights.

A picket of a vegetarian organization "First Stage" passed off in the center of Rostov-on-Don. Several tens young people called for the by-passers to reject meat, milk and eggs.

13 more persons were hospitalized in Nalchik with suspected botulism. So, the number of people who got poisoned in the cafe of Agricultural Academy of Kabardino-Balkaria increased up to 31 persons, Head of Press service of the Ministry of Public Health of the republic Marina Osmanova reported.

An unidentified armed person in Kaspyisk entered a food store and shot down the shelves where bottles with alcohol drinks were standing from a self-firer. There were no victims or injured persons, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reported.

In Volgograd, the place of execution of the Jews should be memorialized in memory of victims of the Holocaust. This is stated by the Volgograd Jewish community. Experts of the "Rosokhrankultura" (Federal Service for monitoring compliance with cultural heritage protection law) consider creation of the memorial complex in memory of all victims of fascism to be more appropriate.

The Internet medium "Caucasian Knot" has entered the top ten most quoted news sources of the Russian Internet. These are the results of the research for October conducted by the company "Medialogy".

Samuel Eto'o, the forwarder of the Makhachkala "Anji" FC (Dagestan) and the member of the national team of Cameroon, was put into the list of 23 football players competing for the title of the best player in the world on the basis of the year's award. Samuel Eto'o is the only member of the Russian Championship, who entered the list of candidates, the FC's press service told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On November 1, the regular, namely, the third in this year, issue of the independent Caucasian magazine "Dosh" has been released. It contains materials on human rights violations in the North-Caucasian republics, interviews with famous people, photographs, cultural and historical sketches.

The Sheki Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the first instance court, which had sentenced the human rights activist Vidadi Iskenderov to 3 years of imprisonment.

Today, the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) hosted events dedicated to the 68 anniversary of the deportation of the Karachay nation to Central Asia.

Naima Alborueva, a resident of the city of Makhachkala, claims disappearance of Fatima Alborueva, her 19-year-old daughter.

The Main Military Investigatory Department disseminated the information that the soldier Andrei Popov, who claimed that he had spent ten years in captivity in Dagestan, acknowledged the fact of his desertion and asked to consider his case in a particular order. However, Andrei Popov refutes this information.

Yesterday, November, 1, about 200 people gathered in front of the Ministry of Nature Preservation of Armenia in order to stand up for maintenance of Trchkan, the most full-flowing waterfall of the republic. The participants of the action handed the Minister of Nature Preservation Aram Arutiunyan their statement consisting of seven demands.

Photo exhibition "August. 2008. Art against War" will be opened on November, 3, on the eve of the Day of People's Unity. Works by photojournalists and photos from the archives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation taken during the war of August, 2008, in South Ossetia will be presented there.

Batsiev Beslan, a native of Dagestan, who during 9 years was on the international search list on charges of belonging to militants, surrendered under the guarantees of the Adaptation Commission, which is helping the people, who decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities.

On Monday, October 31, Elchin Sadygov, the lawyer of Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", who had been arrested on October 28 in Azerbaijan, has filed four complaints at once.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, "black archaeologists" continue to plunder the unique necropolis near the village of Zayukovo. This was reported by Victor Kotlyarov, an historian and ethnographer.