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About 40 houses were damaged on Friday because of floods caused by rains in the Tuapse District, Krasnodar Territory. As reported by the press service of the Southern Regional Centre of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Russian Federation, tonight a storm warning was announced in this and the Apsheron District; flooding of certain dwelling settlements was announced possible.

Militiamen have detained four natives of the Chechen Republic - residents of the city of Zelenokumsk, Stavropol Territory, who probably instigated a conflict with local youth with use of traumatic pistols and firearms.

Georgia was awarded the right to host the Summer European Youth Olympic Festival in 2015. The decision was made today in Belgrade at the 39th Session of the General Assembly of the European Olympic Committee, which was attended by National Olympic Committees of 49 countries of the continent.

Today, Russia commemorates victims of the terror act committed in the evening on November 27 last year with the "Neva-Express" train. As a result of the train crash 28 persons were lost and more than 90 were injured.

Fishermen of the agrarian company "Novaya Zhizn" (New Life), which is an affiliate of the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "RUST-Invest", located in Privolnaya village, Kanev District of the Krasnodar Territory, state that for many months they get no wages, while the fishery itself is in crisis. The told about it in their open letter addressed to the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachov.

Unidentified criminals have undermined a section of the railway track in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan; and then shelled the unit of the militia and interior troops, which guarded the railway line, injuring one soldier.

The expert commission of the Academic Council of the History Department of the Moscow State University (MSU), which comprises historians from several universities, recognized the higher school textbook on Russian history, written by MSU Professors Alexander Vdovin and Alexander Barsenkov, which aroused criticism because of the data about Chechens placed in it, as "inappropriate."

Starting from November 23, the city of Ardon, North Ossetia, hosts the action named "For My Clean City". It will last till April 23, 2011. The organizers of the action were the district department for education and the environmental council of the House of Children's Creativity.

On November 25, Cossacks from the city of Anapa smashed the fence erected by builders in the forest of the reserve "Bolshoi Utrish", the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Andrei Rudomakha, coordinator of the "Ecological Watch in Northern Caucasus".

According to a source in investigatory bodies of the Southern Federal District (SFD), Igor Chernykh, who was detained on charges of mass murder in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, was arrested.

On November 25, in the village of Kenzhe, a suburb of Nalchik, at the gate of his house, a local resident Timur Mechukaev, 33, was shot dead; he was a son of Azret Mechukaev, former head of the Republic's Bureau of Forensic-Medical Examination.

Late at night on November 25 unidentified persons threw a grenade into the car of the head of the Kayakent ROVD (District Interior Division) in Dagestan; the militiaman was slightly wounded, as reported by regional law enforcement bodies.

Relatives of Mohammed Shakov and Islam Beshkurov, detained in Kabardino-Balkaria and suspected of illegal possession of ammunition, declare innocence of these guys and demand investigation into their beatings. Their advocate asserts that after arrival of the petition about illegal methods of investigation to the prosecutor's office, filed on November 19, his clients have not yet been interrogated.

In Tbilisi, at the building of the Parliament, another rally of opposition parties is held today; about 500 have gathered for the action.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) made a decision on the murder of four young residents of Chechnya in 2000.

An explosive device was triggered tonight in the city of Nazran, Ingushetia, under the bottom of a car; the driver has suffered, said the spokesperson of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

International and Armenian public ecological organization demand from city authorities of Yerevan and Armenian leaders to stop construction of dolphinarium in the Komitas Park.

Violations of pupils' rights have been revealed in the state educational institution "Volgograd Children's Home": as punishment, children were placed in mental hospital for forced treatment. This was reported by the Regional Prosecutor's Office.

A group of people who have manufactured and sold forged certificates of employees of State Security Service in Northern Caucasus has been arrested in Moscow. The certificates had been used for committing grave and especially grave crimes, Center of Public Relations of the Department of State Security Service reported on November, 25.

Victor Tsyganov, Chief of Novorossiisk customs suspected of abuse of authority, has been suspended from office. This news came on November, 25.