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Residents of the city of Sochi express their concern of the plans to erect a 17-kilometre-long alternate of the existing Kurortny (Resort) Avenue. The new highway threatens to liquidate thousands of rarest vegetative exotics, bring unimaginable economic costs and create ecological hazard, as the experts say.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov said about resolution of a number of resonant crimes committed in his republic. Among them, according to Mr Evkurov, the attempt on him, the terror act at the building of the ROVD (District Interior Unit) in Nazran and the murder of the Deputy Chair of the republic's Supreme Court.

The judicial panel for criminal cases of the Supreme Court has upheld the verdict of the Stavropol Territorial Court to Igor Sokolov and Abubakar Mezhiev, both aged 39, who took part in the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995. They will serve their terms at the general regime colony, as the General Prosecutor's Office has reported.

Already former Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy, who was dismissed for criticizing his Novorossisk colleagues and bosses, denied, at the press conference held in the Independent Press Centre, charges that his revelations had been prepaid by western NGOs.

Citizen of Georgia David Khubunaya, who is waiting for six weeks already for his exclusion from Russia at the special reception centre intended for minor offenders in the city of Archangelsk, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that his complaints against long custody had forced the local Prosecutor's Office to initiate a case.

Today, the Chegem District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced the verdict of guilty to Aryubat Gemueva, doctor-paediatrician of the local district hospital, accused of non-rendering held to Aslan Kugotov, 13, who subsequently died.

The public statements of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy were backed up by NGOs funded from abroad, in particular, the US Agency for International Development (USAID). This was stated by a source from the Department of Internal Security (DIS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia.

Another incident looking like an attempt on the opponent of Chechen President Isa Yamadaev; situation with human rights and freedom of speech in Azerbaijan; propagation of swine flu in the Caucasus; progress in investigating the murder of well-known advocate Stanislav Markelov; and video complaints of militia major of his bosses to Russian prime minister Putin, which have stirred up the Internet, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of November 2-8 in the Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Experts have made a psychological portrait of Evgenia Khasis, 25, a suspect on the case of murdering advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova. In the opinion of psychologists, Evgenia Khasis is very unbalanced and aggressive. Meanwhile, her friends do not believe in her involvement in the resonant murder.

Arthur Duzgaev, 21, who, as Chechen power agents kept asserting, returned from Azerbaijan with the aim to join the armed underground, and was liquidated on November 5 while rendering armed resistance, was a freestyle wrestler and had recently won the title of champion of Azerbaijan. His relatives assert that he had been kidnapped by unidentified persons three days before his.

A Russian journalist, head of the "Centre of Extreme Journalism" Oleg Panfilov has moved to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, because of the current situation in Russia.

Grigol Vashadze, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia, has promised that the teenagers detained by power agents of South Ossetia, will be surely released. He told journalists about it today in the break of the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova regional co-operation group).

The interrogation of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on the criminal case opened under the claim lodged by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has been postponed till November 12 or 13.

Citizen of Georgia Nodar Nikoleishvili had to go on hunger strike at the militia special detention facility in Archangelsk because of "inhuman custody conditions and long stay at the facility, which is not intended for the purpose." The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Nikoleishvili himself, who waits for his exclusion from Russia for the fifth month already.

Late in the evening on November 8, Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy said at the press conference that outdoor surveillance after him was established. After the press conference he found that his car was opened, despite the installed signalling system.

Isa has reported that the cottage of his brother - Ruslan Yamadaev, Deputy of Russian State Duma, who was assassinated in 2008, - was house-checked, while another brother - Musa Yamadaev - was announced into search.

Early in the morning on November 4, armed persons in military uniform and masks rushed into Boris Pliev's house and forced away his son Aliskhan, born in 1979.

Journalists of the Georgian "Imedi" TV Company have decided to apply to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the context of the events on November 7, 2007, when actions of supporters of the opposition was severely suppressed in Tbilisi. This was announced by MP Giorgi Targamadze, leader of the parliamentary minority.

As reported by the authorities, Rizvan Osmaev, Emir of the Shali and Kurchaloy Districts, also known under nickname "Gyurza" (blunt-nosed viper), and a certain Khasan Ozdamirov ("Herat") were liquidated in the vicinity of the Chechen city of Argun.

Human rights activists are ready to support militiaman Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossisk in the context of his open statements about his militia bosses' abusive practice.