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On November 23, at 6 p.m., near the building of the Georgian parliament, three activists of the social movement "November 7" - Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, Dagi Tsoguriya and Irakli Kordzaya - were detained. They were found guilty of breaking the law on rallies.

Inspectors consider several versions of the death of two law enforcers in the city of Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria, whose decapitated bodies were found yesterday in the luggage compartment of the car left in the roadside. Among the versions - an answer of the militants to an article published in a local newspapers about liquidation of the leaders of the republic's extremist underground - Shura.

Today in the morning, in Barsuki village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled the car of Hadjibikar Buzurtanov, an employee of the convoy service of the MIA. The militiaman and his small daughter, who was with him in the car, were shot dead.

In the afternoon on November 23, the Chechen capital hosted a many-thousand-strong protest action, where participants demanded prompt measures to demine the territory of the republic.

Georgia has sent the three citizens detained in the border with South Ossetia back to Russia.

In Azerbaijan, health condition of imprisoned Mushvig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, continues to worsen. In spite of his placement in mid-October from the colony to the specialized medical establishment of the Penitentiary Service for TB patients, his disease is progressing to the worse.

Today, Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", a figurant in the so-called "execution list" disseminated in the form of leaflets in early September in Dagestan, was summoned to the local prosecutor's office for interrogation.

At the process on the events on October 13, 2005, one of today's witnesses has petitioned to the court about his interrogation at a closed judicial session. He said that he is a working militiaman. The prosecution party has supported his petition referring to the law on state protection of witnesses. The defence was against.

Modernization of the Russian law-enforcement system is a must. This was stated by Ella Pamfilova, head of the Council for Promotion of Civil Society Institutes under Russian President at Dmitri Medvedev's meeting with the Council members. In her statement, the human rights defender mentioned the recent scandal caused by the resonant video appeal of Militia Major from Novorossisk of Alexei Dymovskiy.

Victoria Radochinskaya, 31, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, is the winner of the prestigious international contest "Missis of the World-2009", which was held in the evening on November 22 in the southern Vietnamese city of Vungtau. She was awarded a white-gold crown decorated with 63 rubies worth about 100,000 US dollars.

Vandals continue desecrating the memorial boulder installed in the place of mass executions of Jews by fascists. This statement was made by Ms Yael Ioffe, leader of the Jewish community of Volgograd, in her welcoming speech at the opening of the information-methodical seminar "Efficient Counteraction to Extremism and Xenophobia".

Visit of Belarusian MPs to Abkhazia and South Ossetia to get ready for consideration of recognizing the breakaway republics; preparation to elections in regions of Northern and South Caucasus; kidnapping and liberation of the son of Buinaksk administration head, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 16-22 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Children-invalids from this republic have no chances to receive due treatment - for more than 40,000 such children Chechnya has only one rehabilitation centre.

Today, the court precinct No. 106 of Khasavyurt began preliminary hearings on the criminal case against lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who is accused by Arslankhan Arslankhanov, an inspector for especially important cases of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, of insulting him with swear words. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Salimat Kadyrova, an advocate of the Kizilyurt Inter-District Bar, who is defending Magomedova.

Starting Monday, November 23, schoolchildren of Chechnya will go to additional vacations in the context of possible swine flu epidemic. The pupils' forced rest will last for at least ten days.

As a result of revising drugstores in Vladikavkaz, employees of the republic's prosecutor's office revealed facts of setting extra charges on 20 vital and major medicines in four city drugstores.

Activists of ten NGOs from different regions of Russia have announced establishment of the Public Commission on Chechnya, which will have its main tasks in defending victims of torture and inhuman treatment and bringing those guilty of rough violations of human rights or of failure to take the necessary measures to prevent such violations and punish for them to responsibility.

An unidentified culprit used a grenade launcher to shell a stationary militia post in Nazran, the capital of Ingushetia; one employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has suffered.

Hadjimurad Kamalov, a Dagestan political scientist and director of the LLC "Freedom of Speech", said in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Moscow had not decided yet whom to support at the presidential election in Dagestan.

As reported by Andrei Goncharuk, deputy head of the secretariat of the President of Ukraine, in designing the gas line "White Stream", Georgia will rely on the potential of the Ukrainian gas transportation system.