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For several days in a row, senior pupils of several Tbilisi schools were holding actions with a demand from the Ministry of Education and Sciences to cancel the eight certification exams introduced during this school year. The last action of this sort was held on November 9.

Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, met in London with the heads of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and asked for help in saving the Georgian sailors, for more than two months kept by Somalia pirates.

An investigation of a criminal case against a resident of the settlement of Demino accused according to part 1, clause 282 "Fomentation of hatred and animosity and derogation of human dignity" of Criminal code of the Russian Federation has been accomplished in Stavropol. This news came from Olga Naumenko, Aid Head of Stavropol inter-regional investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation in the district, on November, 10.

Yesterday, November, 10, militia personnel searched the flat of Mikhail Piskunov, student of Novosibirsk State University and one of the organizers of an abandoned show of a documentary about murdered journalist Anastasia Baburova.

A 24-year-old resident of Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya was kidnapped last night not far from "Caucasus" federal highway. This news has been reported by the kidnapped young man's relatives who are still unable to find out where he is.

A worker of an enterprise "Chechenlesprom" was blown up by a trip-wire mine during timber harvesting works in the South of Chechnya. The man remained alive only by a lucky chance and even got no missile wounding.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has promulgated its decisions on the cases of the former minister for economic development of Azerbaijan Farkhad Aliev and former president of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Academician Eldar Salaev.

In South Ossetia, near the settlement of Grom, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, a border infringer was detained. This was reported by the press service of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia. The Georgian party asserts that the detention was illegal.

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.