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On the second day of the 11th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki", ten films were screened, three of which were dedicated to the Caucasus.

Citizens of South Ossetia will be able to receive free medical care in medical facilities in Russia, announced Anatoly Bibilov after his visit to Moscow on November 14. In Tskhinvali, hospitals often have no necessary drugs, noted city residents, who preferred to go to Vladikavkaz for medical treatment.

Today, a native of Chechnya, whose was hiding under a false name abroad after an assassination attempt on a policeman, has been brought to Russia from Frankfurt am Main, Irina Volk, the spokeswoman of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The mourning rally was held today in memory of 68 Kaspiysk casualties of explosion of a residential house on November 16, 1996. The executors and organizers of the terror act have not been found to this day.

Today, in Ingushetia, law enforcers have carried out a search at the places of Khamzat Chumakov, Imam of the Nasyr-Kort mosque, and his brother. Imam's supporters accused the law enforcement agencies of provocation.

Today, Mekhman Guseinov, sentenced on the charge of defaming the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has given the testimony about beatings by law enforcers. He has also demanded to examine video records from the police building.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has granted the complaint filed by Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the Azerbaijani movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), by recognizing the violation of his rights to a fair trial. The ECtHR has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay to Ilgar Mamedov 10,000 euros of compensation.

The authorities of Chechnya are willing to forgive Movsar Eskerkhanov, who apologized for his interview to magazine Time. This has been reported today by Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information.

The term of punishment for Inga Tutisani, a resident of Sochi, sentenced for high treason because of an SMS-message she sent in August 2008 to Georgia, in which she described the movement of Russian troops, was reduced down to 4 years and 1 month.

The Chechen police are engaged in carrying out an inspection after the detention of five participants of a party in Pyatigorsk, who confessed to taking psychotropic substances. A TV story about party participants can provoke the use of violence against them, residents of Chechnya believe.

In the Agdam District, 127 houses were damaged as a result of an earthquake, and 100 houses got cracks in the Barda District. Destructions and damages were also registered in the Terter District.

The debts of the Dagestani authorities to supplier of video cameras to register traffic violations reached 136 million roubles, although the video cameras registered violations to collect fines of 400 million roubles. This has been reported by the company supplying video cameras. The investor has refused to support the project until the debt is paid.

Websites calling to hold unsanctioned protests in Chechnya are blocked at a request of the Prosecutor's Office of the republic.

A decision has been found to preserve the Samur Forest and provide people with water. This was announced on November 15 by Vladimir Vasiliev, the acting leader of Dagestan.

The 11th North-Caucasian Open Film and TV Festival "Kunaki" was opened with the screening of the silent film "Abrek Zaur", released in 1926. The show is dated to the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Three residents of Ingushetia have been detained on suspicion of involvement in an attack on a road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) checkpoint (block post) near the village of Yandare, reported a source from the law enforcement agencies of the republic.

The court has found a resident of Dagestan to be a member of the armed underground and sentenced him to eight years in prison.

The memorial to the residents of Sukhumi, who perished in the 1992-1993 armed conflict, will be restored after making changes to the inscription on the stone. This was reported by the Council of Eastern Ayrshire, which includes the Scottish city of Kilmarnock.

Anna Kuvychko, a State Duma MP from the Volgograd Region, has shot a video with pupils of the cadet classes. In the video, the children are singing about their willingness to be led by President Vladimir Putin in the last battle. Children should not be involved in recording of songs about the willingness to fight, wrote participants of the discussions in social networks.

Three residents of Vladikavkaz are involved in the case on a series of extortions and attacks on gays. The defendants have explained their actions by homophobia.