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Because of downpours incessant in Georgia for two weeks already, thousands of hectares of farmland are under water. As a result of floods and snowfalls a number of regions of the country are cut off from the outer world; the calamity destroys houses, and several persons were registered as missing.

The Coordination Centre of Moslems of Northern Caucasus has called to scale up the struggle against crime in Dagestan in the context of the murder of Tinamagomed Ramazanov, Imam of the mosque of Bavtugai village.

In Georgia, activists of oppositional movements and NGOs get ready to mark the second anniversary of dispersal of the protest action of the opposition in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007. A new action and protest march will be held in central Tbilisi, as Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, leader of the "Movements of November 7", said to the press conference.

Today, relatives of residents of Kabardino-Balkaria Timur Begidov from Kenzhe village, Ibragim Shogenov and Anzor Nagoev from Dugulubgei village, who on October 2 left for Ufa in a cold storage truck with fruits aiming to sell them there and disappeared, rallied in Nalchik in the square near the House of Government.

In Azerbaijan, the health condition of Mushvig Guseinov, convicted journalist from the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, who was placed two weeks ago in a specialized medical establishment for tuberculosis (TB) patients of the Penitentiary Service, has become still worse. This was stated by his brother Sarvar Guseinov.

On November 2, Moscow hosted a roundtable dedicated to role of Russia in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and European experts took part in the event - ten analysts in total.

The health condition of Tauzela Dzeitova, the main witness of Maksharip Aushev's murder, who received wounds, when Aushev's car was shelled in Nalchik, remains grave. This was stated by Shamil Kudaev, deputy chief physician of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Nalchik. The woman is still in resuscitation ward.

As stated by Georgiy Kabisov, Chairman of the State Committee for Information, Post and Mass Communications of South Ossetia, the broadcasting of Radio Liberty in the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia is illegal and a sort of an information provocation.

A year after the start of his presidency, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is still adhering to rather lenient punishments to his corrupt officials. However, according to his version, the courts are all the time trying to acquit those who should be really punished.

In October, over 20 cars burnt down in Volgograd. Militiamen believe that half of the cases were deliberate arsons. In this way the companies, which claim debts from their borrowers, punish them, the militia think.

Relatives of Isa Yamadaev, who got on November 1 in a serious road accident in a Moscow suburb, do not exclude that it could be an attempt on him. In their opinion, only his armoured car saved his life.

Anniversaries of resonant terror acts; actions in memory of victims of political repressions in regions of Northern and Southern Caucasus; struggle of residents of the capital of North Ossetia for the right to favourable environment; new kidnappings and murders in Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of October 26-November 1 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Zagra Kazimagomedova, wife of Murad Salikhov, 24, who was kidnapped in the capital of Dagestan on October 29, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband was identified among the bodies in the Makhachkala morgue.

In North Ossetia, a group named "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" created in the social Internet-based network "Odnoklassniki.Ru" is not going to stop its activities and continues demanding to close the "Electrozink" factory, despite replacement of the enterprise bosses.

On November 1, in the Norwegian city of Bergen, Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Malakhat Nasibova was decorated with the prestigious Rafto International Award in the field of human rights for 2009.

Mayor of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov has banned sale and consumption of beer closer than 100 meters from entrances to railway stations, airports, sports objects and wholesale food markets. The statement came into force on October 27.

On October 31, human rights activists from Novorossisk held a picket dated to the Black Sea Day. The picket took place despite the ban of the city administration.

Tinamagomed Ramazanov, 34, Imam of a rural mosque, was shot dead in the evening on November 1 by unidentified persons in Bavtugai village, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan.

Ali Khasanov, Emir of flatland Chechnya and close ally of Chechen militants' leader Doku Umarov, was killed in Grozny. According to Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov, President Ramzan Kadyrov took his personal part in the special operation.

The phenomenon of the nine-month-old Ali Yakubov from the Dagestan village of Krasnooktiabrskoe, on whose body phrases from the Koran appear, are seriously discussed by local representatives of Muslim clergy and politicians. The house of the Yakubovs is visited by pilgrims who wish to see the wonderful child and touch him.