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In Gyzylkhesar prison of the Iranian city of Karadzh, Medzhid Khudai Gamidoglu, an activist of the Movement for the Rights of South Azerbaijan Azerbaijanis and a member of the Party for Independence of South Azerbaijan, was lost.

Liudmila Sarkisyan, Chairperson of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party of Armenia, has condemned the beating of Narek Galstyan, leader of the youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Party.

The government of Georgia does not allow the "Imedi" Radio Station to resume broadcasting.

The Moscow City Court has rejected the complaints lodged by advocates of the brothers Tamerlan and Ibragim Makhmudovs and Magomed Demelkhanov who asked to release the three convicts in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya.

Terrorists have received over one and a half million US dollars for destabilization of the situation in Northern Caucasus before the forthcoming parliamentary elections, and the law enforcement bodies failed to block the channels of funding the militants.

In Krasnodar both defendants in the case of newborn Sonya Kulivets - doctor Vladimir Pelipenko and nurse Elena Senicheva - have been sentenced to one year of imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

In Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court has satisfied the petition of the State Office of Public Prosecutor and ruled in absentia another pre-trial arrest for Irakliy Okruashvili, former Minister of Defence.

The opposition of Ingushetia is warning the authorities against any attempts to prevent to hold an all-Republic's protest rally.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has welcomed the cancelling of the state of emergency in Georgia and expressed his hope for a fast and complete restoration of the freedom of all the mass media operating in this country.

The investigators have announced the main reasons of the numerous ship-wrecks on November 11 in the Kerch Strait.

Zeitun Gaev, 29, a resident of Gerpegezh village, who was detained on November 15, died in Kabardino-Balkaria.

On November 15, the European Court for Human Rights (ECfHR) satisfied three complaints lodged by Chechen residents and found Russia guilty of violent disappearances, extrajudicial executions and illegal capture and destruction of private property in Chechnya.

The Internet resource "Ingushetia.ru", where access had been stopped by the order of the authorities of Ingushetia, has made a statement calling on the Ingush Internet users to refuse from the services of the Internet providers - the Telecom Limited Liability Company and the ITT Closed Joint-Stock Company.

The Ukrainian scientists had tried to warn the authorities about the catastrophe that was approaching in the Kerch Strait; however, nobody listened to them.

According to the ruling of the Binagadinskiy District Court of Azerbaijan, the whole circulation of the book "Public TV in the Press Mirror" will be confiscated and destroyed.

In Georgia, a craniocerebral trauma has caused death of a man who suffered during the dispersal of the meeting of the united opposition held in Tbilisi on November 7.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, after the recent execution of hunters, the pressure on Moslems by employees of law enforcement bodies has amplified.

The victims of the dispersal of the November 7 meeting in Tbilisi and members of the opposition doubt the gas type that was used to disperse the meeting, as well as the fact there were policemen dressed in yellow raincoats with the inscription "Police" on the back.

The state of emergency has been lifted in Georgia. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports about broadcasting of information programs of TV Companies "Rustavi-2", "Mze" (Sun) and others, except for the "Imedi" (Hope) TV and Radio Company.

Polish journalist Marcin Mamon has made a video story about the problems of children in post-war Chechnya based on a family with six Chechen children, living alone in the building of a ruined factory.