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Two members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) and their two female helpers have been killed in an attempt to render armed resistance in the village of Novosasitli, Khasavyurt District, said the spokesperson of the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed the concept of the country's public security, the presidential administration reports. The document describes the state of security in the country as unstable, defining terrorism, migration, extremism, drug trafficking and corruption as the main threats to stability.

On Wednesday, at the construction of the "Fisht" Olympic Stadium, a worker perished as a result of falling from a height. Two other workers are in hospital in grave condition.

As reported by locals, on Thursday, November 19, the authorities of the city of Karabulak (Ingushetia) began the demolition of No. 20 in Rabochaya Street. According to their story, tenants are not allowed into their apartments, where their belongings are still left. In his turn, the Mayor Magomed Bariev has asserted that the dismantling of three houses in Rabochaya Street was suspended.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has dismissed the appeal complaint lodged by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" against the ruling of the Zamoskvoretskiy Court to dismiss the application that contested the actions of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office while inspecting the Centre.

The militants killed during a special operation in Makhachkala have been identified as Murad Kasumov, the leader of the "Makhachkala" armed grouping, who had ordered to make the bomb that was triggered in a bus in Volgograd, and Kamal Muslimov, who had joined the armed underground, the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The Adygea Republic's Institute of Humanitarian Studies (ARIHS) has fired about 45 researchers, as reported by the bosses of the Institute. The dismissed specialists claim that it will be very hard for them to get employed – there are no more such institutions in Adygea.

The inquiry into the case of Gadjimurad Gasanov, accused of participation in an illegal armed formation (IAF), whose kidnapping had been reported by his relatives, is over. The case files have been sent to the court, a source from the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has reported.

Five residents of the village of Kharachi, Untsukul District of Dagestan, have been arrested for two months on suspicion of resisting law enforcers. On Tuesday, November 19, power agents unblocked the entrance to the village for motor vehicles, said local residents.

The killed participant of the today's attacks on police units in Makhachkala was identified as Ruslan Kazanbiev, a helper to the organizer of the terror act in Volgograd, said a source from law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

The MPs of the Russian State Duma have approved, in the first reading, the bill that introduces temporary fines for vehicular traffic on special "Olympic lanes" during the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi.

As reported by a source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, during a shelling of the second police unit on Tuesday in Makhachkala, an occasional passerby was shot dead.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has sentenced Sergey Tsapok, the main figurant in the case about the massacre committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, to life imprisonment to be served in a special security colony. Vladimir Alexeev and Igor Chernykh, other figurants in the case, also received life imprisonments.

The Volgograd State University (VSU) has adopted a document, which regulates the allowable high school dress code, where, along with banned shorts and short skirts, it was decided to introduce a separate ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs). This proposal was made by Taisia Yudina, the pro-rector for education and upbringing of the VSU. It is supported by regional officials.

In the Ingush city of Karabulak, they began smashing a two-story house at No. 21 Rabochaya Street, where three families live. The works continue even at night, as Firdaus Musieva, a tenant, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The case of the shelling and wounding Mukhmet Buzurtanov, a resident of the village of Ghalashki, has been transferred from the MIA of Ingushetia to the military investigating division, said the lawyer Magomed Gandaloev.

On November 18, the newly elected President of Georgia Georgy Margvelashvily went to work. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that he refused to occupy the presidential palace and is temporarily working in the State Office of the Government, in the premises of the former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has ruled to cancel the arrest of Ruslan Makoev, accused of killing the deputy prosecutor Oleg Oziev as Stanislav Ailarov, Makoev's advocate, has reported today.

The explosion in the Dagestani Khasavyurt happened near the pharmacy, the owner of which had earlier received threats, said a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the ICRF. Nobody suffered, the GOVD (City Interior Divisions) has reported.