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Khasan Zakaev, a native of Chechnya, suspected of aiding and abetting organizers of the assault of the Dubrovka Theatre in 2002, started to read the materials of the criminal case.

In Russia, law enforcers are working hard to prevent terror acts, and militants in Northern Caucasus do not have sufficient resources to commit terror acts like a series of Paris terror acts. This opinion was expressed by Mikhail Roschin, Akhmet Yarlykapov, and Yana Amelina.

Today, human rights defenders have held a series of pickets near the building of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) against the actions of the MoJ with regard to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". This was reported by Valery Borschev, a participant of the protest action.

A staff member of the Criminal Investigation Department for Vladikavkaz of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who had been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the death of detained Vladimir Tskaev, was accused of abuse of power with the use of violence.

The murder of a 24-year-old reporter of the newspaper "Gazeta Yuga" committed in the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) was recorded by a video camera installed in one of the cars. According to investigators, the man suspected of the murder was a common-law husband of the victim.

Members from the front "Yes", who call on to support the draft amendments to the Constitution of Armenia, and members of the front "No", who oppose the constitutional amendments, have organized a meeting with students and teachers at the Goris State University.

During the week of November 9-15, 2015, three persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, one person was killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On November 15, in the French square of Stepanakert, people lit candles in memory of the victims of the terror acts in Paris. According to the organizers, the ceremony was attended by about 500 people.

The Congress of the Karachai people, was attended by about 200 delegates and guests from Cherkessk, Karachaevsk Zelenchuk, Malokarachaevsky, Karachai, Prikubansky areas. The participants demanded the authorities to eradicate problems of cronyism and corruption.

A candle-lighting ceremony in memory of the innocent victims of a series of terror acts committed in Paris was held today in the Square of France in Yerevan.

Yuri Kokov, the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has fixed his ministers and heads of republic's agencies to schools for practical assistance in preventing extremism.

Today, in Baku, since early morning, townspeople are coming to the French Embassy to pay tribute to victims of the terror acts committed yesterday in Paris. According to the authorities, there are no citizens of Azerbaijan among the victims.

Today, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, has held a sitting of the antiterrorist commission, where he ordered to strengthen security measures in the republic in the aftermath of terror acts in Paris.

Elchin Bekhbudov, the head of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture (CaT) has died at the age of 55. He was engaged in monitoring places of detention and annually informed the public on cases of torture.

The custody of Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the chairman of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been unreasonably prolonged for a month, his defence said, adding that investigators are deliberately protracting the inquiry in order to falsify the case.

Participants of the meeting in Cherkessk criticized the organizers of the Congress of the Karachay people, saying about the attempts to destabilize the situation in the region. The meeting was attended by about 700 activists of public organizations, and heads and deputies of municipalities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Sochi, the city commission for emergencies is not lifting the high alert regime introduced because of heavy rains and floods. In the evening on November 13, another mudslide went down to the section of the Khosta-Kudepsta Federal Highway. City residents complain about the precarious storm sewers.

The Leninsky District Court of Voronezh that is considering the complaint lodged by the Media Rights Defence Centre (MRDC) against inclusion thereof in the register of "foreign agents" received the results of the examination of materials and publications of the Centre. Experts revealed political activities in them. At the same time, representatives of the MRDC have questioned the experts' conclusions.

In the Dagestani city of Buynaksk, policemen detained about 40 parishioners of a Salafi mosque, eyewitnesses report. Late at night, all the detainees were released.

On November 13, the Sakharov Centre in Moscow hosted a presentation of the book "A thin silver thread" by Polina Zherebtsova. The writer herself took part in the event via Skype.