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Making decision on resettlement of the residents who have left their settlement of Vremenny in Dagestan and setting up a tent camp for them is protracted, residents have complained.

The capital of Armenia has launched 34th World Congress of the International Theatre Institute under the UNESCO under the motto: "New Voices and New Spectators: Time for Dialogue." It is attended by more than 300 delegates from Asia, Europe, America and Africa.

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot", on November 15 the head of the Centre said that employees of the Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala tried to prevent the opening of the institution.

Gamid Gamidov, Director of the "Eastern Marketplace" in Makhachkala was wounded when resisting his kidnappers, said an investigator. In grave condition, Gamidov is now at the intensive care unit of the Republic's Clinical Hospital.

On Monday, six out of seven hunger-strikers in Karaman quitted the action and were replaced by other six persons – residents of the settlements of Tarki, Kyakhulai and Alburikent. The seventh protester of the action that began on November 10 – the pensioner Ibragim Magomedov – refused to stop the hunger strike.

As reported by a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, in the area of the administrative border of Chechnya and Ingushetia, where four suspected militants were killed during a special operation, power agents continue searching for members of the armed underground.

As announced by the press service of the Lefortovo Moscow Court, the arrest of Magomedgusen Nasrutdinov, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, accused of a fraud was extended until January 19, 2015.

The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) have recognized the implementation by Georgia of the first stage of visa liberalization and supported the transition to the second stage of negotiations about visa abolition, says the communiqué of the European Council on Foreign Affairs.

During the week from November 10 to November 16, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus took away one human life; no information about wounded or injured persons was received. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Residents of the settlement of Vremenny demand from the authorities of Dagestan to set up a commission for evaluating the damage caused to them during the special operation.

Every month schools of Ingushetia will hold solemn line-ups, which will mandatorily perform the anthems of Ingushetia and the Russian Federation, the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Evkurov has announced.

The ruling coalition "Georgian Dream" will not be able to initiate impeachment of President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, who is now in confrontation with the Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent believe.

Law enforcers have managed to detain in hot pursuit a car with people who committed an attack on the Prime Minister of Abkhazia Beslan Butba.

Today, an oppositional rally was held in Tbilisi in the square in front of the Parliament, which stated "annexation of Abkhazia by Russia." The action was organized by activists of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM). According to various estimates, the rally was from 3 to 20 thousand strong.

Today, Madina Magomedova, the head of the "Flowers of Life" Children’s Care Centre in Makhachkala, has stated about the pressure of law enforcement bodies and illegal actions of power agents, who tried to disrupt the opening of the Centre.

The liquidation by Azerbaijani militaries of the Mi-24 helicopter in the flight over Nagorno-Karabakh, will not go unpunished, experts in Armenia believe. The measures in response to the destruction by Azerbaijani militaries of the Armenian Mi-24 helicopter will be "more than proportionate," rmenian Defence Minister Seiran Oganyan says.

Today, about 400 people gathered at a rally in memory of Eradil Asanov, who was shot dead at the building of the ROVD (District Interior Division) for the Nogai District of Dagestan. The action took place in the village of Terekli-Mekteb, and its participants demanded to punish the persons responsible for the death of the young man.

In Grozny, law enforcers and representatives of the Muslim clergy held a series of inspections in the stores selling Islamic products, where they searched for the banned religious literature.

On November 14, at the trial in the case against Mardiros Demerchyan, a builder of the Olympic facilities, the court questioned Sergey Sobolev, the head of the surgical ward of the city hospital No. 3. According to the witness, the defendant was brought for his medical examination in a depressed state and with multiple injuries, and he told the doctor that he had been tortured.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya is delaying issuing the records of court hearings on consideration of the appeals against the verdict in the case against Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus. This was reported by Pyotr Zaikin, an advocate of Ruslan Kutaev.