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In Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the State Office of Public Prosecutor and ruled in absentia another pre-trial arrest for Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence.

The opposition of Ingushetia is warning the authorities against any attempts to prevent to hold an all-Republic's protest rally.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed the cancelling of the state of emergency in Georgia and expressed his hope for a fast and complete restoration of the freedom of all the mass media operating in this country.

The investigators have announced the main reasons of the numerous ship-wrecks on November 11 in the Kerch Strait.

Zeitun Gaev, 29, a resident of Gerpegezh village, who was detained on November 15, died in Kabardino-Balkaria.

On November 15, the European Court for Human Rights (ECfHR) satisfied three complaints lodged by Chechen residents and found Russia guilty of violent disappearances, extrajudicial executions and illegal capture and destruction of private property in Chechnya.

The Internet resource "Ingushetia.ru", where access had been stopped by the order of the authorities of Ingushetia, has made a statement calling on the Ingush Internet users to refuse from the services of the Internet providers - the Telecom Limited Liability Company and the ITT Closed Joint-Stock Company.

The Ukrainian scientists had tried to warn the authorities about the catastrophe that was approaching in the Kerch Strait; however, nobody listened to them.

According to the ruling of the Binagadinskiy District Court of Azerbaijan, the whole circulation of the book "Public TV in the Press Mirror" will be confiscated and destroyed.

In Georgia, a craniocerebral trauma has caused death of a man who suffered during the dispersal of the meeting of the united opposition held in Tbilisi on November 7.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, after the recent execution of hunters, the pressure on Moslems by employees of law enforcement bodies has amplified.

The victims of the dispersal of the November 7 meeting in Tbilisi and members of the opposition doubt the gas type that was used to disperse the meeting, as well as the fact there were policemen dressed in yellow raincoats with the inscription "Police" on the back.

The state of emergency has been lifted in Georgia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports about broadcasting of information programs of TV Companies "Rustavi-2", "Mze" (Sun) and others, except for the "Imedi" (Hope) TV and Radio Company.

Polish journalist Marcin Mamon has made a video story about the problems of children in post-war Chechnya based on a family with six Chechen children, living alone in the building of a ruined factory.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has officially announced a search of Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia and leader of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia".

The Court of Sochi has sentenced the local resident, who blew up this spring a drilling unit in his protest against holding the Olympiad-2014 in the city, to five years of imprisonment.

In Armenia, in the morning on November 15, unknown persons violently took Narek Galstyan, leader of the youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party, out of a taxi and severely beat him.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has stated that the imprisonment term of Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-FSB lieutenant colonel, expires on November 30 this year.

The trial on the case about the militants' attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on October 13, 2005, has been postponed till January 11.

The European Court for Human Rights has recognized Russian authorities guilty of the murder of Aslanbek Kukaev, a militiaman of the Staropromyslovskiy ROVD of the capital of Chechnya.