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The militia of St Petersburg is searching the unidentified assailants who attacked on November 11 the local historian and publicist Igor Pykhalov, who wrote about deportation of Caucasian nations.

A gas explosion happened in the cafe named "Obzhorka", located at intersection of Mira and Kommunarov Streets in Krasnodar. Two women were hospitalized with burns; the building was damaged.

Today, the Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has announced disclosure of a "big corruption scheme" in the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and detention of a number of ministerial officials.

The case of kidnapping Garry Jopua has still remained undetected, Shota Utiashvili, head of Informational and Analytic Department of Georgian Ministry of Interior Affairs, said.

Today the population of Chechnya like the whole Moslem world started celebrating the holiday of sacrificial offering Kurban Bairam (Id-al-Adkh). From the early morning the Moslem believers gathered in the mosques for festive prayer after which the ceremony of sacrificial offering traditionally starts.

The party of Tsotne Gamsakhurdia's defense declared they would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in connection with unlawful prolongation of the terms of trial on his cases by the Municipal court of Tbilisi.

On November, 15, two officers of law enforcement bodies of Chechen Republic got wounded as a result of an explosion of a mine in Kazbek district of Dagestan, a source in the Ministry of Interior Affairs reported.

According to regional authorities, today in the Rostov Region more than 80 percent of high-rise buildings under construction are funded by shareholders. In some cases, they fall into the category of deceived shareholders and start fighting for rights to own apartments. According to activists, there's little success in this fight; while the government, while dealing with the problem, not always involves victims in the process.

An explosion was triggered today in the morning in the Volgograd Region in the field of an agricultural enterprise in the vicinity of the village of Karpovka, which resulted in two deaths; two more persons with injuries were taken to hospital.

Today, in the House of Journalists, friends of the "Committee of January 19" will hold an action intended to invite the visitors of the festival "Profession: Journalist" to the show of the alternative documentary dedicated to Anastasia Baburova, a journalist who was shot dead on January 19, 2009, together with lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

The Supreme Court of South Ossetia has completed consideration of the case, initiated against Teimuraz Dzherapov, former minister of economy of the government of South Ossetian in exile (temporary administration of the republic formed in Tbilisi).

Today, Vienna saw the first court session considering the murder case of Umar Israilov, a native of Chechnya and ex-security guard of Ramzan Kadyrov. Enhanced security measures have been introduced by the police in the district where the litigation takes place.

In Dagestan, Cossacks have ever been, above all, a binding link between all nationalities; it was stated by Zirkula Ilyasov, First Deputy Minister for National Policy, Religion Matters and Foreign Relations of Dagestan. Enver Kisriev, a researcher of the Caucasian, believes that there is no serious conflict between Dagestanis and Cossacks in the republic; while Hadjimurat Kamalov, founder of the newspaper "Chernovik", confirms this idea and indicates that local Cossacks have become more a cultural phenomenon than a military force.

Last night, in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Grozny, unidentified persons shot dead a GIBDD (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) senior militia lieutenant. On this fact, a criminal case was opened under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Eighty-one percent of Armenians are convinced that the country has a problem of inequality of men and women in their representation in power bodies. Of them, 38 percent of respondents believe the problem is very acute, and only 15 percent believe that the quantitative inequality is not a problem. The study was conducted within the framework of the Programme "Women's capacity building in peace construction in Southern Caucasus".

One of the detainees in the case of murdering 12 persons in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory - Sergey Tsepovyaz, - is a deputy of the rural settlement. This was reported today by a source from the administration of the Kuschevskiy District.

In the southwest of Chechnya, in the foothill Achkhoi-Martan district, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) detained a man of 50, suspected of involvement in kidnapping. The alleged kidnapper was released under recognizance not to leave.

Andrei Krasnenkov, advocate of the Chechen President, filed a civil claim on his own behalf on protection of business reputation against the Human Rights Society "Memorial", demanding compensation of 500,000 roubles.

Members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee blocked themselves in the courtroom in Beslan in response to decision of Judge Tsallaev to deprive Alan Tagaev, a victim of the terror act in Beslan in September 2004 and brother of Ella Kesaeva, the leader of the Committee, of his driver's license for 18 months.

On November 14, in the car market located in the outskirts of Urus-Martan, a district capital, local militiamen opened fire and beat two young men, who later were detained and taken away to some unknown place. This was reported by local residents, who added that tinted car glasses were the reason of the incident. Power agents refrain from comments.