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The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia has officially announced a search of Irakliy Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia and leader of the opposition party "Movement for United Georgia".

The Court of Sochi has sentenced the local resident, who blew up this spring a drilling unit in his protest against holding the Olympiad-2014 in the city, to five years of imprisonment.

In Armenia, in the morning on November 15, unknown persons violently took Narek Galstyan, leader of the youth organization "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party, out of a taxi and severely beat him.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has stated that the imprisonment term of Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-FSB lieutenant colonel, expires on November 30 this year.

The trial on the case about the militants' attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on October 13, 2005, has been postponed till January 11.

The European Court for Human Rights has recognized Russian authorities guilty of the murder of Aslanbek Kukaev, a militiaman of the Staropromyslovskiy ROVD of the capital of Chechnya.

According to the Republic's law enforcement bodies, since January 2007, a total of 336 participants of armed formations have been detained in the territory of Chechnya.

The South Transport Prosecutor's Office has initiated a criminal case under the article of "negligence" against Andrei Iovlev, captain of the Port "Kavkaz" (Krasnodar Territory).

The National Defender of Georgia has stated that the authorities of Georgia continue prosecuting and repressing the participants of the action of the United Opposition on November 7.

Today the court has ruled to aggravate the punishment of Irakliy Okruashvili and to replace the bale for the arrest.

The managers of the "Imedi" TV Company are going to appeal against the ruling of the Tbilisi City Court to suspend the Company's broadcasting license and arrest its property.

In Ingushetia, the blockade of the oppositional web site "Ingushetia.ru" continues, however, as of 10 a.m. both providers (ITT Closed Joint-Stock Company and Telecom Limited Liability Company) have removed the readdressing of the visitors to a porno web site.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the Nalchik City Court has ruled that the statement, instructing to bury the persons killed in the process of suppressing an act of terror, to be illegal and unjustified.

On November 12, since 23.00, when attempting to open the site "Ingushetia.ru", the users were automatically referred to some pornographic site. Magomed Yevloyev, the site owner, thinks that the main reason for closing his site in Ingushetia is the fear of President Murat Zyazikov that people may learn the truth about the situation in the republic.

The consequences of the Kerch Straits contamination may be felt after several decades. Ecologists have already registered mass deaths among birds and fish in the vicinity of the accident.

The Azeri authorities use all possible mechanisms for destroying the freedom of speech in the country, director of the "Institute of Peace and Democracy" Leila Yunus states.

Representatives of the law enforcement agencies do not preclude the possibility that the militants killed on November 12 in the Dagestan capital intended to capture hostages in the gymnasium No 7 located nearby.

Vitaly Kaloev, resident of North Ossetia who was serving a prison term in Switzerland for the murder of Peter Nilsen, Skyguide air carrier air traffic controller, and released before term, has returned to Moscow.

The Chechen residents arrested in Moscow in May who, according to the investigators, have to do with the car loaded with explosives and left near the "Profsoyuznaya" metro station, may be accused of preparing an attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov's life.

Amnesty International has called upon the Georgian authorities to promptly conduct a careful, impartial and independent investigation of reports on applying excessive force by special police units during the dispersal of anti-government demonstrations on November 7 in Tbilisi.