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Armenia has started its programme of returning internally displaced persons to their permanent residences, where their houses and apartments had been damaged or ruined during the Karabakh conflict in 1992-1994.

In Chechnya, tenants of House 2/1 in Putin Avenue of Grozny, asked by city authorities to abandon their apartments, wrote an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev asking him for help.

The Company "Russian Railways" (RRs) is ready to take part in construction of the Iran-Armenia railway in the capacity of project contractor, should Armenia, Iran and Russia agree on the project terms, as Vladimir Yakunin, President of the RRs, told journalists.

The law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia have declared that, under preliminary data, the woman-suicide bomber who accomplished the terror act in Vladikavkaz on November 6 was a native of Ingushetia, aged 45.

This year, 8,000 pilgrims from Dagestan will make their way to Mecca, although the application had been for 15,000 persons. First of all, the priority is given to those who have never made the Hajj.

Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against Russian aggression, The New York Times reports.

The Panel on Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Ingushetia has cancelled the decision of the Nazran District Court on recognition of the interview of businessman Musa Keligov placed in the website "Ingushetia.Ru" to be of extremist nature and sent the case to new consideration.

Representatives of the Ingush opposition - Maksharip Aushev, Magomed Khazbiev and Musa Pliev, who had a meeting on November 3 with the new President of Ingushetia, believe that Yunus-Bek Evkurov is capable to change the situation in the republic for the better.

Immediately after blowing up of the "Gazel" taxi in Vladikavkaz, the Ingushes, who tried to drive through the "Chermen Circle" in the border of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, faced problems, Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the Ingush Human Rights Organization "Mashr", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

From now on, Georgia will host permanent protest actions. It will be a new wave of protest; its aim being in peacefully changing the power in the country. This is the topic of the "United Opposition's Action Plan", which was distributed among the participants of the protest action in front of the parliament in Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. Next time, the opposition will rally on November 23 near the building of the "Imedi" TV Company.

Today, the opposition rally in Georgia attracted "about ten thousand persons: this is the capacity of the square in front of the Government Palace in Tbilisi; it is all packed by people, and the crowd does not decrease," the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent quotes his contact - Emil Adelkhanov, member of the Board of the NGO "Caucasian Institute", who is in the place of events.

According to the latest data, as a result of explosion of a fixed-route taxi in the centre of Vladikavkaz, in the square in front of the "Druzhba" movie theatre and marketplace "Globus", committed on November 6, 12 persons were lost and 38 more were wounded to different gravity.

Victor Travin, President of the "Collegium for Legal Defence of Car Owners", believes that the appeals of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia to road-patrol servicemen to "break windscreens" and "shoot at cars" of those drivers who refuse to remove tinted glasses under militia's order is a cause for the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to react.

The United States condemns the heinous act of terrorism that took place today in Vladikavkaz.

Today, the capital of Georgia will host a conference "HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma and Mental Health". Its organizers assert that the rights of AIDS patients are violently broken in the country.

The preliminary hearing at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the events on October 13, 2005, scheduled on today, has been postponed again, because defendant Zuber Erzhibov could not appear to the Court.

Eka Tkeshelashvili, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, used the term "aggressive" in relation to the message of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, presented on November 5. The head of Georgian MFA has stated it to journalists today in the morning before her working visit to Greece.

Yesterday, on November 5, Javier Solana, EU Supreme Representative for General Foreign Policy and Safety, declared that the countries of European Union find unacceptable "Russia's policy from the position of strength towards Georgia" and would not recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Raishat Gardanova, a resident of the Pliev Municipal District of the city of Nazran, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on November 1 her house in A. Archkhanova Street was searched by power agents without any due sanction.

As a result of the terror act committed today in the centre of Vladikavkaz on the crossing of Vatutin and Kuibyshev Streets, 11 persons were killed and 30 injured.