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Out of 713 complaints that have arrived within the year to the Ombudsperson on children's rights of the Rostov Region, a great share (21 percent) was on adoptive families, registration of trusteeship and adoption. In the opinion of Ombudsperson Alla Vasilieva, frequently these complaints result from drawbacks in the work of trusteeship and guardianship bodies.

Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is in prison, went to law against Elmar Mamedyarov, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan. The journalist's complaint was caused by the latter's refusal to answer his request.

Military observers of the European Union have been noticed among the persons who tried to penetrate on Saturday, November 15, at about 3:30 p.m. Moscow time from the territory of Georgia into the territory of the Gali District of Abkhazia.

The advocate who acts in the interests of the family of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, in her murder case is trying to attract President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov as a witness.

On November 17, two policemen were lost and eight wounded as a result of explosion of a Russian drone (pilotless aircraft) in the village of Plavi, Gori District (East Georgia), runs the statement of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, published in the Ministry's website.

Sozar Subari, Georgian Ombudsman, has reported in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that situation with human rights in his country has worsened. In his opinion, Georgia still has political prisoners; and the absence of guarantees of the freedom of speech is causing concern.

The appeal sent by Dagestan lawyers to the President of the Russian Federation (RF), federal law enforcement bodies and Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" states that criminal prosecution of lawyers on far-fetched grounds is inadmissible and can give rise to a dangerous tendency with political context and a threat to citizens' access to justice.

Today, frontier guards of Abkhazia have entered a skirmish with a Georgian armed group, which tried to get into the pre-border Gali District of Abkhazia.

The Orthodox clergy in South Ossetia have treated as "treachery" the refusal of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) to take the South-Ossetian community under its patronage and to lay hands on a churchman for them.

The UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) and the World Bank have officially announced that they start a joint 2.1 USD million project in Northern Caucasus. Its aim is to render help to assist vulnerable groups of young people in the region.

Until now, Georgia has not renewed deliveries of Russian gas to South Ossetia, stopped with the start of warfare. Georgian oil and gas companies assert that gas supply to Tskhinvali was stopped because the main pipeline was damaged by warfare this August.

Deputies of the Chechen parliament voice support to the initiative of President Dmitri Medvedev, who proposed to extend the terms in office of Russian President and State Duma Deputies up to six and five years accordingly.

Two out of ten residents of South Ossetia detained by Georgian police this October have been set free. They are father and son Kelekhsaev. Sofia Khorguani, Georgian deputy Ombudsman, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On November 14, Rostov-on-Don hosted a roundtable on the Year of Family that Russia had announced in 2008. The participants were officials of the respective ministries of the region.

Annually, the Volgograd Region has 27 thousand newborns against 30 thousand abortions. In experts' opinion, the problem is in low morals and general disregard of contraception.

On November 14, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov took command of the special operation intended to search militants in the Kurchaloy and Nozhai-Yurt Districts, and personally designed its plan. The operation had lasted till late at night, but no militants were found.

Commercial structures in Georgia will pay more for gas. Suppliers and distributors have made a deal.

The delegation of Abkhazia will take part in consultations in Geneva on safety issues in the Caucasus. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia. As he said, an official invitation to Geneva to take part in the debates as a party of the process was presented today to Sukhumi.

The experts of the Rostov-based medical-legal laboratory are studying the DNA of the unknown woman who perished in the explosion of the fixed-route taxi near the Central marketplace in the capital of North Ossetia on November 6.

Italian Deputy of the European Parliament Julietto Chieza is investigating disappearances of young people from South Ossetia, whose fate is still unknown. According to some sources, the Ossetians were captured by Georgian militaries.