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A group of unknown hooligans attacked the students who came tonight to the Novosibirsk State University to watch the documentary about the murder of Anastasia Baburova, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", said Sergey Akimov, the organizer of the demonstration.

On November 8, a rally was initiated and organized by the local department of the STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, known in Russia as GIBDD) of the MIA of the Republic of Adygea.

In Yerevan, the four young oppositionists, who were detained this morning by the police, came to the populous rally of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), which began at about 7:30 p.m. local time.

The first hearing on the case of inflicting grave harm to human health causing death of Bella Ksalova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, was held on November 8. Ten persons were present - relatives of our deceased colleague, and three friends of the defendant. It became clear at the session that the accused Arsen Abaikhanov was registered at the narcological dispensary since 2007.

Shamil Adukhov, a resident of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, reports that on November 8 his brother Murtazali Adukhov, who lives in the Yubileiny District of Khasavyurt, was beaten by militiamen from the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division). Now, the victim is in the trauma ward of the central city hospital.

On November 8, Sergey Basmanov, director of the human rights organization "Defence of Citizens' Rights and Interests", again filed an application to the Khosta UVD (Interior Division) of Sochi about the threats that continue to arrive to him as SMS messages. He did not rule out that the persons who intimidate him may be connected with the militia.

President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev is ready to dismiss the heads of those republics of Northern Caucasus who are unable to put their law enforcement sphere in order. The President made this statement on November, 8, at the meeting with Alexander Khloponin, his plenipotentiary in North-Caucasian Federal district, Vice-premier of the Russian Federation.

On November, 25, an action of protest in memory of a twenty-year old Zaruii Petrosyan who died in the town of Masis on October, 1, from her husband's beating will be held in Yerevan. The participants will demand an impartial investigation of the murder.

An assault on Magomed Khanmagomedov, journalist of "Chernovik" ("Draft") weekly who had come at the Mayor's appointment was committed today in the office of municipal administration of the town of Dagestanskiye Ogni.

The November 7 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan were held in calm atmosphere with all the opposition parties involved; however, they demonstrated lack of significant progress in the democratic development of the country. This is said in today's joint statement spread in Baku by the international observer missions of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) of the OSCE, PACE and the European Parliament.

As reported today by Sergey Lebedev, head of the CIS observation mission and Secretary of the CIS Executive Committee, the parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan were transparent and democratic. The GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova Regional Cooperation Group) observation mission has also treated the above elections as were free and fair.

In the coming days, the employees of the State Unitary Enterprise (SUE) "Spetsstroy of the Ministry of Construction of the Chechen Republic" will receive their salary debts. This was stated by Director General Bibeisar Yusupov. Local officials assert that the debts were left by the "Spetsstroy of Russia", which was engaged in restoration works in the republic before 2007. However, the officials of the latter do not feel guilty of the Situation with wage debts.

Today, the court of Malaysia has started its first hearing of the case of Daredzhan Kokhtashvili, a citizen of Georgia, accused of drug trafficking. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia waits for the details of the first hearing, which, according to Malaysian laws, is held without an advocate.

The Krasnodar Territory and Rostov-on-Don hold funerals of the victims of the mass murder committed on November 5 in Kuschevskaya village. Today, a sitting will be held in the village will participation of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, and Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigatory Committee of Russia, and on the issue of the investigation into the massacre of 12 persons.

On November 7 in Sochi, the rally dated to the 93rd anniversary of the October Revolution brought together about three hundred residents, who were holding red flags, posters and portraits of Stalin and Lenin, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

At their working meeting in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov, Elmar Mamedyarov and Eduard Nalbandyan, Foreign Ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, accordingly, discussed the issues of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The participants of the "Strategy-31" protest action, fined under the Administrative Code for holding their event without coordination with the city administration of Rostov-on-Don, would not pay the fine imposed by the court.

In 2010, the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has detected more than three thousand law violations committed in the course of implementing national projects. Now, 16 criminal cases are investigated on facts of budget embezzlement and under other articles of the Criminal Code.

Garry Dzhopua, a citizen of Abkhazia, whose fate remained unknown after his kidnapping on October 9, is at large. The former hostage is almost unable to recognize his relatives; he is now examined at one of local hospitals.

An anti-corruption "hotline" has been opened in the Government of Ingushetia. Telephone calls from the residents are received round-the-clock.