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Four residents of the village of Kharachy, Untsukul District of Dagestan, including the head of the village Gadjimurad Saladinov, were detained by power agents and taken to one of police stations for questioning, local residents have reported.

Today, Vladimir Putin has signed a decree instructing to amend the migration regime in Sochi during the Winter Olympics-2014. The document says that those citizens of Russia, who will arrive in Sochi, shall apply for registration.

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, this morning parishioners were again not let into the central mosque, located in Leninkent, a suburban township of Makhachkala. It caused a clash, in which six persons were injured.

This afternoon, in the area of Leo Tolstoy, Morozov and Dzerzhinsky Streets of Stavropol, a bus was on fire. No casualties or victims were reported by the first aid station. The police claim that a terror act is out of question.

The Mayor of the city of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov, who was detained at receiving a bribe of 10 million roubles, was arrested by the today's decision of the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

In Hamburg, at a public meeting, Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, told about violations of human rights in the Russian colonies, where women are serving their terms, and about ill-treatment of prisoners; last year, she was released from prison, where she had been serving her sentence for preparation of a terror act in central Moscow.

The British diplomatic mission in Russia and the Department for North Ossetia of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), which are jointly investigating the disappearance of John Styles, a member of the Danish Refugee Council, in the Caucasian Mountains, refuse to report any details of the incident and its investigation to journalists.

Five prisoners of Azerbaijani Colony No. 17 cut themselves with disposable razors after talking with the employees of the correctional institution. This was reported on November 14 by the PR division of the republic's Penitentiary Service.

The decision of the parliamentary factions not to take part in the vote on the bill on recognition of Nagorno-Karabakh by Armenia is not a boycott, but a reasoned step, while the official recognition of the latter will follow immediately – in case of war or termination of the negotiation process by Azerbaijan, Tevan Pogosyan, a member of the "Heritage" faction says.

A gathering of residents of Gorky Street in Sochi has demanded to cancel the erection of a 14-storey office building in a site closely adjacent to their homes. They decided to ask the prosecutor's office to intervene and address the situation, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Semyon Simonov, the coordinator of the network "Migration and Law" was released from the police after being held in the linear unit of the railway station of Adler for more than an hour. He said, with reference to power agents that his check was carried out within the framework of anti-terrorism exercises.

In Moscow, picketers have called the "Aeroflot", which is the general partner of the Olympic Games, to respect "the fundamental Olympic principles", which are incompatible with any form of discrimination. They demanded to release the leaders of the trade union of the Sheremetyevo aircraft personnel, who were arrested on suspicion of fraud and extortion of money from the "Aeroflot" bosses.

On November 13, Shi’ite Muslims of Azerbaijan commemorated the Day of Ashura - the mourning for the martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali in the battle of Karbala in 680. Religious ceremonies took place at different mosques and sanctuaries, while street processions were not allowed. Some participants of the ceremonies used this day to make political statements.

The body of the entrepreneur Nauruz Cherkasov, 46, who was kidnapped this August, was found in Zelenchuk District of Karachay-Cherkessia. The burial place of the businessman was shown by the earlier detained resident of Karachay-Cherkessia, said a source from the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Judge Pavel Melekhin from the Moscow City Court (MCC) has appointed selection of a new jury for the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", for January 14, 2014.

Four persons, detained during the actions to investigate the explosion committed on October 4 at the Ukrainian-Russian border in the Sumy Region, are suspected of involvement in the illegal transportation of a suicide bomber to Ukraine. This was reported by the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU).

In the town of Kamyshin of the Volgograd Region, two policemen are suspected that they beat a suspect, demanding a confession. After the interrogation, the 29-year-old local resident was hospitalized. This was reported by the investigating bodies of the Volgograd Region.

Charity project "Theatres to Beslan Children", organized for psychological assistance to victims of the events of September 2004, has been resumed in North Ossetia. Performances will take place both in Vladikavkaz and Beslan.

Students of the History Department of the Baku State University (BSU) held a protest action against the dismissal of Associate Professor Altai Geyushov, their lecturer.

The Yak-40 aircraft, being en route from Grozny to Moscow with wounded soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), made an emergency landing in Voronezh. This was reported by a source from the Voronezh Regional Hospital.