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Thirteen percent of Armenian children under 5 years of age see retardant growth rate, and five percent of all country's children are permanently starving. This was stated by Karine Saribekyan, head of the division for protecting mothers' and children's health at the Ministry of Public Health of Armenia.

Today, deceived interest-holders (people who prepaid their apartments in a new house, but received nothing) of Rostov-on-Don have held a picket, which was not sanctioned by the authorities.

Mussa Mankiev has reported that his brother Ibragim Mankiev, born in 1977, was kidnapped in Egypt.

Another note of protest was delivered via ambassador of the Swiss Confederation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia to the Russian party. The Georgian party's protest was caused by the visit on November 13 to Abkhazia of the Moscow delegation headed by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

In the capital of Karachai-Circassia, tenants of hostels complain that they are sick and tired to live in anti-sanitary conditions and demand to improve them at least for invalids.

Behaviour of policemen during rallies shows that they often lack understanding of the legislation. This was stated by Avetik Ishkhanyan, chairman of the Armenian Helsinki Committee, who suggested organizing special legal training courses for policemen.

The first international air flight from the airport of the capital of Chechnya is planned for November 16. The flight will bring pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

Three law enforcers have suffered today as a result of an explosion of a bombardment missile in the second level of the new building of the GOVD (City Interior Department) of Nazran.

Ara Asoyan, chief infectious doctor of Armenia, has treated the situation related to the start of propagation of A/H1N1 virus in the country as psychosis and called the population not to give in to panic.

November 13 was the deadline for submitting documents to the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) for receiving registration as candidates at municipal elections to be held in Azerbaijan on December 23. Documents have been submitted by more than 35,000 persons; and 28,515 candidates have already been registered.

In the city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, the court found Asiet Sheudzhen, head mistress of the special closed-type vocational school, indirectly guilty of death of one of her pupils, aged 17. In the course of the works at the construction site, where she sent the pupils, a wall fell down on the teenager.

The today's interrogation of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under his criminal case on slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov lasted for four hours.

Today, according to the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan (MGHROA), the number of political prisoners in the country has reached 27. The new entries to the list are bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, sentenced to imprisonment. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Saida Godjamanly, head of the Bureau for Observance of Human Rights and Legality.

On November 10, Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov presented documents on new flats to 20 orphans and children, who live without parental care. The help in buying and repairing the flats was rendered by the city administration and local entrepreneurs.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the republic's committee for population employment that 200 jobless citizens have received subsidies at a rate of maximum annual unemployment allowance - 58,800 roubles - to start their own businesses.

On November 12, the Karabulak City Court of Ingushetia continued hearings on the murder case of oppositionist Magomed Evloev. The case is considered by Judge Tumgoev.

At her last interrogation at the inquiry division of the Investigatory Department of the Moscow GUVD (Chief City Interior Administration), Svetlana Gannushkina, head of the Committee "Civil Assistance", said that she agreed with every word of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", who had imposed the political responsibility for the death of the human rights defender Natalia Estemirova on Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. Svetlana Gannushkina herself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

The restoration works in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, continue, but the process is hampered by "the long chain of receiving money from Moscow." This was stated on November 12 by Zurab Kabisov, head of the State Restoration Committee, at his meeting with journalists.

In 2010, the fines for violations in the ecological sphere in the territory of the Chechen Republic will be essentially raised. In the opinion of local ecologists, such measures should enhance the responsibility of heads of enterprises and organizations for observance of ecological standards.

The territorial department of "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Consumer Supervision) in North Ossetia has prepared documents for the court on suspension of the "Electrozink" factory for up to 90 days. This was announced on November 11 during the press conference in Vladikavkaz by Taimuraz Butaev, the head of the department.