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The Dagestani investigating authorities are studying the murder of an operative agent of the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division), committed at night on November 25 in a city suburb. The murder had to do with the policeman's professional duties, investigators believe.

Four years ago, on November 27, 2009, near the village of Lykoshino, a crashed of the high-speed "Neva-Express" Train en route from Moscow to Saint Petersburg took place, killing 28 people and injuring over 130 others. According to investigators, the crash was a result of a terror act, prepared and committed by ten residents of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, who were later charged and convicted.

The Ethnographic Museum of Hamburg has opened an exhibition dedicated to Circassian nationals. Wulf Koepke, the Director of the Museum has noted that the exhibition has to do with the upcoming Olympics and is not directed against Russia.

The defence intends to challenge the verdict passed today to Sergey Reznik, a blogger and journalist from Rostov-on-Don, who was sentenced to 1.5 years at a general security colony, said his advocate Yuri Kastrubin.

The Krasnodar Territorial Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports has announced the amount of prize money for any local athlete who will win at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Apart from the promised 4 million roubles from the Russia's federal budget, a local Olympic Champion will receive 2 million roubles from the territorial treasury.

According to the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan, the madrasa teacher Arslanali Shakhbulatov, who was shelled in the evening on November 25 by unidentified persons, had not received any threats. The MIA regards his religious activities as the main version of the attack.

The Chechen authorities plan to provide free-of-charge public utilities to families of the law enforcers who died in performance of their duties. The rules will take effect from January next year, the Chechnya's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The G8 summit scheduled to be held in summer in Sochi will consider the problem of migration as one of the main agenda items. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while he was in Italy and met Romano Prodi, ex-Prime Minister of Italy and current special envoy of the UN Secretary General.

In Armenia, organizations-members of the coalition "Combating Violence against Women" demand to adopt a law on domestic violence as a whole package, not dividing it into parts concerning physical, economic and psychological violence.

The Human Rights Council under the Russian President has appealed to the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to conduct the more thorough investigation into the cause of the explosion that occurred in August at military training ground "Ashuluk".

In Sochi, members of public organizations and political parties have declared the illegitimacy of the chairman of the commission on public hearings and the unreasonableness of the very project. Initiators of the public hearings have recognized the arguments reasonable and declared the public hearings invalid.

On November 25, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan interrogated Zaur Gasanov, accused of killing policemen and being a member of illegal armed formation (IAF). The defendant has pleaded not guilty. Besides, he has claimed being tortured.

Advocate Sapiyat Magomedova has appealed to Ramazan Abdulatipov, the leader of Dagestan, asking him to pay attention to the pressure on witnesses in the case of the murder of five persons committed in Kizlyar. Sapiyat Magomedova states that the defence's witnesses, victims and their advocates have to ask for state protection.

Today, Parviz Gashimli, an employee of the newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) and the head of the website moderator.az, accused of smuggling and illegal possession of arms, has gone on a hunger strike in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, said his advocate Elchin Sadygov.

Today, the court session on the recognition of the Union "Women of the Don" as a foreign agent was postponed – it was rescheduled for December 4 with the aim to summon the expert, whose opinion was put into the basis of the claim lodged by the City Prosecutor of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region.

Today, Yerevan has launched a 16-day-long campaign to end violence against women. About 30 people gathered in the Students Park and marched along the main streets of the capital, urging citizens to pay attention to the acute, in their opinion, problem of the Armenian society.

In the village of Ashilta, Untsukul District of Dagestan, two houses inhabited by the families of Magomedali Amirkhanov, detained on suspicion of organizing the terror act on August 28, 2012, in which Sheikh Saeed Chirkey was killed, and his brother Amirkhan Aldamov, who was killed in March this year, were burnt down.

Suleiman Magomedov, who accidentally blew himself up with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Makhachkala, was allegedly involved in the preparation of the terror act committed in the passenger bus in Volgograd. This was reported by the National Antiterrorist Committee of Russia (NAC).

According to the Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) seven citizens of Russia, Uzbekistan and Georgia, suspected of creating a criminal association, engaged in illegal banking activities, were detained in Moscow. According to investigators, they organized a channel of exporting out of Russia the funds belonging to illegal migrants from Central Asia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Abkhazia; the funds were also used to support terrorists.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has announced a start of inquiry into the murder in Moscow of two women, one of whom is a citizen of Kazakhstan. The other casualty, who, according to a source from law enforcement bodies, had her arms and legs cut off and a wound on the stomach in the form of a cross, was a native of Dagestan. Internet users see nationalistic motive in her murder.