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In Sochi, about 100,000 residents of the Tsentralny District have lived six months without hot water supply. They fear that, after the start of the heating season, they will be left without central heating.

In Makhachkala, unidentified men attempted to blow up a police UAZ van, and several persons were easily shell-shocked. This was reported by an official from the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

On Saturday morning, in the Azerbaijani city of Lankaran, policemen detained Fikret Akhmedov, a member of the audit commission of the "Musavat" Party. Members of the Party state that the police actions are associated with the proceedings in the case against Yadigyar Sadygov, another activist of the "Musavat" Party.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found Russia guilty for disappearance of two men and a pregnant woman in the case "Bopaeva and Others vs. Russia", who were detained on April 17, 2000, in Grozny. This was reported by a staff member of the organization for legal aid "Astreya".

The women's madrasa in Stavropol, which has attracted attention of the FSB, had never did anything illegal, said Muhammad Rakhimov, the Mufti of the Stavropol Territory and the head of the regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM).

The clergy of Ingushetia have proposed to toughen penalties for the grooms who abduct their brides. It was decided by the Islamic Conference held in the republic.

On November 9, Sochi closed the 13th International Children's Festival of Arts and Sports "Kinotavrik". The festival participants have noted that the contest of films about children with disabilities failed to arouse great interest of the audience; however, they find it necessary to put this contest on the next year's programme.

As reported by Oksana Cheredinina, a senior assistant to the Volgograd Regional Public Prosecutor, the construction of the cottage settlement in the Volga-Akhtuba Floodplain is illegal; and about 30 potential tenants who had invested into construction cannot register their titles.

By a Decree of the Russian President, the Police Lieutenant Zaur Djibilov has been posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of Russia; the award was given to his mother.

This year, in Chechnya, 242 families of law enforcers and military personnel killed in the line of duty received one-time payments from the authorities in the total amount of more than 85 million roubles. Funds were allocated for the improvement of living conditions of the families left without breadwinners.

The Council on Human Rights (CHR) under the Russian President has addressed its appeal to the Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking to promote a change of the freedom restriction measure applied as custody to Professor Mikhail Savva from the Kuban State University, for another one not related with custody.

The advocates of the students Rafik Avagyan and David Barsegyan, sentenced in Nagorno-Karabakh on July 23 to 10 and 11 years in prison, accordingly, for treason and espionage, have sent a complaint to the Supreme Court (SC) of the republic.

As reported by a source from the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, the inquiry into the criminal case against a resident of Buynaksk Makhach Gamzatov, accused of aiding militants, is over; and the case was sent to the court. As stated by his brother, Makhach Gamzatov made his confession under pressure.

Since November 9, in Azerbaijan, the oppositional newspaper "Yeni Musavat" was temporarily suspended – this was a sort of protest against the obstacles created for its distribution. Another oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" is also facing a threat of suspension, since the publishing house "Azerbaijan" has demanded to quickly pay the debts.

The responsibility for the explosion of the store in Makhachkala was taken by the grouping "Ansaru ash-Sharia". Dagestani policemen are under high alert regime and are searching for the car, used by criminals to flee.

The jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court has recognized all the defendants in the "Tsapok case", accused of the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, guilty of all the imputed crimes and deserving no leniency.

The explosion of the store "24 Hours" in Makhachkala killed one person and wounded two, Dagestani investigators report. The local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has data about one casualty – a security of the store, and one wounded store seller. The attack was committed by three unidentified persons.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that two rallies, organized in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and the "Communists of Russia" on the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution, brought together more than two thousand people.

As of November 7, 17 residents of Volgograd, who suffered at the recent terror act, continue their in-patient treatment, said the local Ministry of Public Health. The regional investigators report about the course of inquiry and state that they have evidence confirming that the suicide bombing was committed by Naida Asiyalova, and that she had no supporters and accomplices in Volgograd.

The participants of the roundtable, held on November 7 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, have stated that the republic failed with the land reform and to fulfil the Federal Law FZ-131 "On General Principles of Local Self-Government in the Russian Federation", according to which, the land should have been transferred to rural communities.