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The official Baku believes that the statements of US and EU officials that the November 7 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan failed to meet international standards, suffer from real grounds, since the elections, according to the country's leadership, took place in democratic environment.

In the Krasnodar Territory, two men have been detained, whom the investigation believes as being involved in the mass murder on November 5 in the house of a farmer in the village of Kuschevskaya. According to preliminary data, personal enmity could be the motive of the massacre.

The folk arts festival, dated to the Tolerance Day, is held in Adygea for the third year in a row. This time, the festival on November 10-12 has attracted dozens of students not only from Maikop, as it was before, but from districts of Adygea - representatives of various nationalities. The Tolerance Day is annually marked worldwide on November 16.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Abkhazia is clearing out the reason of the fire that burst out in the Sukhumi Clinical Hospital on November 9 and caused human deaths. According to GPO officials, the ignition was a result of breaching fire safety regulations.

Today, the court has considered the complaint of lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by militiamen on June 17 in the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Khasavyurt. The court has satisfied the petition lodged by Magomedova's advocates and asking to conduct a forensic examination of the records presented by the investigation. According to the defence, the documents have attributes of a service forgery.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled to leave Timur Kartoev, one of the defendants in the case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2009, in custody, although he had filed a complaint against the ruling to extend his detention.

The Inter-Regional Committee Against Torture insists on transferring the criminal case on kidnapping of Islam Umarpashaev in Chechnya to an investigator in some other subject of the Russian Federation or of the central office of the Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), claiming violations in the course of investigations conducted in the Chechen Republic.

Today, Murtazali Adukhov, a resident of Khasavyurt, who is taking his inpatient treatment at the trauma ward of the central city hospital of Khasavyurt because of multiple injuries, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the militiamen who had detained him not only beat him, but made a mockery over his religious convictions.

The upcoming winter in Northern Caucasus will see a big conference, dedicated to drafting proposals on further regional development. It assumes to be attended by officials from Russian government, leaders of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), law enforcement agencies, human rights and other public organizations.

Zohrab Sadygov, Editor-in-Chief of a newspaper "Cadre and Prosperity" died in prison in Baku.

A court in Karachaevo-Cherkesia has pronounced a sentence on a driver who had knocked down to death Bella Ksalova, reporter of "Caucasian Knot". Arsen Abaikhanov will spend three years and three months in a penal colony settlement. Abaikhanov has acknowledged his guilt entirely saying he was ready for punishment for what he had done.

A militiaman perished, a local woman and from four to five militiamen by different data sources got wounded during fire upon a militia squad committed by unidentified people last night in Kizlyar district of Dagestan.

A homemade bomb was activated in the evening of November, 9, not far from the village of Inchkhe, Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported. As a result of the explosion a serviceman got wounded.

Next in turn hearings of the case of ex-judge Dmitry Novikov accused of fraud with 17 land estates in Khosta district court of the resort city of Sochi, Krasnodar region, were held on November, 8 and 9.

A serviceman of Inner troops of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia perished on November, 9, in the piedmont Urus-Martan district of Chechnya as a result of an explosion of a fougasse.

The organizers of the First Russian Film Festival, which ended in Tbilisi on November 8, said that the results surpassed all their expectations.

The Republic's Anti-Terrorism Committee of North Ossetia has issued a statement about a possible terror act in Vladikavkaz with use of trucks. The statement caused extreme concern in residents of the North-Ossetian capital.

Unidentified persons tried to blow up a militiaman's car. On November 8, a fighter from a special combat group of the Kazbek ROVD detected a self-made explosive device, when he was washing his car, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that the consideration of the complaint lodged by lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by militia on June 17 in GOVD (City Interior Department) of Khasavyurt, appointed on November 8, was reappointed for November 10.

Today, on November 9, the Tushino District Court of Moscow started considering the criminal case against four militiamen of OVD (Interior Divisions) "Mitino" accused of exceeding their powers and applying violence to a state official. We remind you that the militiamen tried to suppress an ethnic brawl in a Moscow cafe.