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Fatima Margieva, a human rights activist from South Osetia whose son is currently in prison in Tshkinval, states that although Dmitry Kaloev in connection with the state of his health had already been taken to a resuscitation unit of a hospital she has not yet got a permission to visit him. Margieva is going to appeal to Russian human rights activists for help.

Tonight, an explosion happened in a cafe in the city of Nazran in Ingushetia, located near the "Kavkaz" Federal Highway.

Facts of corruption associated with payment of maternal capital in Dagestan were announced at the meeting of Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District), by candidate for the newly-created Public Council of the NCFD. Residents of the republic said that a maternal capital certificate can be obtained only after paying a bribe.

The Audit Chamber may sue blogger Alexei Navalny by asserting that the materials published in his blog about multi-billion embezzlements during construction of the pipeline "Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean" (ESPO) were untrue. The "Yabloko" Party demands disclosure of the results of the checks conducted by the Audit Chamber, about which the blogger writes.

Zurab Tsoloev (Tseloev), who was kidnapped on October 29 from his house in Nazran by armed persons in masks and camouflage, was released on November 5 and returned home. As it turned out, he was detained by mistake.

In total, 61.8 percent of the indigenous population of Adygea supports the idea of holding the Winter Olympics in Sochi; however, 25.1 percent are still neutral in their attitude to the Games. Besides, most of respondents find it important to use Adyg symbols during the Olympiad - these are the results of the polling conducted in Adygea from January to August 2010.

The today's session at the Khamovniki Court of Moscow, considering the criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in connection with his statements about responsibility of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov for the murder of Natalia Estemirova began more than half an hour later, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports, because the judge had been considering another case.

Relatives and advocate of serviceman Manvel Azroyan soldier accused of killing four soldiers in a military unit of Nagorno-Karabakh do not exclude that the soldier's confession was obtained under pressure of law enforcement officials.

Today, a DDOS-attack (Distributed Denial of Service) on the website "Zhivaya Kuban", which positions itself as the Internet diary of Krasnodar Territory, lasted for several hours.

Today, the Eisk City Court has postponed the trial on the death of six schoolchildren from the "Azov" Summer Camp in Eisk Spit.

Personnel of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia arrested directors of six kindergartens and seven accountants in Kutaisi for accusation of misappropriation of budget money.

Investigation started new criminal proceedings on the clause "murder" against Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy formerly convicted for crimes on ethnic grounds, a source in Moscow law enforcement bodies reported.

Telethon-2010 carried out by the All-Armenian Fund "Ayastan" which will be broadcasted from Los Angeles, this year has a slogan "Water is Life". The donations collected will be directed to financing of building water supply systems in Nagorno-Karabakh and assistance to the program of village development in Armenia.

On November, 23, in Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya, drug policemen detained an employee of fire-prevention service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who is suspected of illegal drug storage.

Editors and journalists of several printed and online mass media of Armenia held an action of protest in Yerevan demanding from the authorities to "stop acts of violence committed in prison against Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of Armenian "New Times" paper" and release him immediately.

In Dagestan, the system for returning militants to peaceful life is ineffective, lawyer Rasul Kadiev asserts. As an example he gives the case, when relatives of the missing resident of the republic Sheikhulislam Abusupyanov approached him as a member of the above commission. However, the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan failed to take steps to search him; and Abusupyanov was soon found murdered.

The Office of Affairs of the Russian President has filed a lawsuit on protection of honour, dignity and business reputation, as well on collection of one million roubles of compensation from the "Novaya Gazeta" for dissemination of false information, said Ekaterina Korotova, press secretary of the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

In the course of the reception session, residents of Kuschevskaya village, Krasnodar Territory, submitted over 180 allegations of crimes to the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO). Currently, all the received information is analyzed and summed up.

Tonight, unidentified attackers made a shot from a rifle-attached grenade launcher at the building of the OVD (Interior Division) in the Dagestan city of Derbent. There are no casualties and victims, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

Ruzana Ivanova, 12, whose disappearance in Makhachkala was earlier declared by her mother Elena Ivanova, a resident of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, returned to her relatives at night on November 17, having managed to escape from her kidnappers. Her relatives are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.