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President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev said that the decision of the Derbent City Court to recognize the election results of the city Mayor null and void will be considered by higher judicial instances.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called the authorities to release Mushvig Guseinov, imprisoned journalist of the newspaper "Bizim Yol", arrested in 2007 on charges of receiving a bribe, because of his illness.

Most of the Armenian HIV-infected patients are aged 25-39, 60 percent of all of them represent this group. 73 percent, or 590 HIV-infected patients in Armenia are males, 27 percent, or 218 cases, have been registered among women; the number of infected children makes 16 cases, or 2 percent. This was reported by Samvel Grigoryan, Director of the Republic's AIDS Prophylaxis Centre.

Today, the Court on Grave Crimes of Azerbaijan finished the process on the case of a group of former policemen, accused of committing a series of armed assaults on currency exchange offices in 1998-2008.

The General Inspectorate of the Georgia's MIA has initiated a study of the accusations put forward by the weekly named "Batumelebi" (Batumi Residents) against law enforcers who tried to blackmail the paper journalists.

A group of Armenian military commanders and well-known figures of arts have addressed President Serzh Sargsyan with an appeal to release Sasun Mikaelyan, an activist of the opposition and one of notable Armenian commanders of the Karabakh War, from custody.

Inspectors have managed to compile verbal identikits of two out of four probable executors of the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train. According to eyewitnesses, the suspected terrorists had "Caucasian appearance."

On December 10, the International Human Rights Defence Day, the Armenian Committee for Defence of Political Prisoners and Victims of Repressions will hold a march against injustice and illegal actions with a demand to release the requirement of clearing of activists of opposition.

Today, the City Court of Derbent has nullified the protocols of election of the city Mayor, held on October 11, for all local electoral commissions and the total protocol of the territorial electoral commission of the city of Derbent.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has expressed his discontent with the decision of Tskhinvali court in relation to four detained Georgian teenagers, since two of them were left to serve their terms in South Ossetia.

Abkhazia has officially addressed Ecuador with a request to study the issue of recognizing its independence. This was reported by Maxim Gvindzhiya, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Abkhazia, who is at his working visit in Ecuador.

The militants' statement about their involvement in blowing up the "Neva-Express" train is treated by power agents as another "propaganda duck" of separatists. They assert that Doku Umarov has neither real means nor capacities to commit large-scale diversions and terror acts outside the republic.

On the eve of the International Day of Invalids, marked on December 3, Makhachkala hosted a cultural-and-sports festival for children with disabilities. Now, Dagestan has about 27 thousand children-invalids.

Mushvig Guseinov, imprisoned journalist of the newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way), who suffers from tuberculosis, is indignant by statements of the officials of the Azerbaijani Penitentiary Service that his health condition has normalized. "They just want me to die," Mushvig said yesterday in a telephone conversation with his relatives, as reported by his sister Dilbyar Guseinova.

Exchange of militant statements between Azerbaijan and Armenia on the destiny of Karabakh; situation with public human rights organizations in Chechnya and resonant murders in Northern Caucasus; terror acts against trains in Dagestan and Novgorod Region, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 23-29 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The trial is over in Tskhinvali of the four Georgian minors detained on November 4, 2009, by power agents of South Ossetia.

The message about the intention of a number of Russian human rights organizations to set up the Public Commission for monitoring the situation with observance of human rights in the territory of the Chechen Republic has caused contradictory reactions in the republic. Some members of local human rights NGOs saw in this initiative a sort of encroachment of "Varangians" on their sphere of influence; others believe that the commission will help local residents.

The section "Family and Public Health" of the Forum "Caucasus. Traditions and Modernization", held on November 30 in Kabardino-Balkaria, discussed the issue of preserving the Caucasian family values at the background of modernization of the rest of the life. In the opinion of singer Varvara, mother of four children, these values are surely exemplary. Other debated topics were social problems, health of the population and demography.

Militants of Northern Caucasus call the terror act against the "Neva-Express" train a link in the chain of "blows on strategic objects in the territory of Russia."

The Georgian party has released five citizens of South Ossetia: Ibragim Laliev, Lavrentiy Kaziev, Yakov Tekhov, Pavel Tekhov and Vladimir Eloev. The hostages were handed over at the Georgian-South-Ossetian border.