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The Ministry of Culture and Protection of Monuments of Georgia has stated that will not revise the status or the name of the Museum of Soviet Occupation.

Today, Yerevan hosted a march of students, organized by the Students' Union of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) Dashnaktsutyun "Nikol Agbalyan". About 300 protesters demand from the government to revise tuition fees and provide social benefits.

The case initiated against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former employee of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, who is accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been transferred to the court, the Russia's GPO (General Prosecutor's Office) reports.

Today, another solo picket was held in front of the building of Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a demand to the authorities of the Russian Federation to organize an emergency evacuation of Syrian Circassians to their historic homeland.

The defence of Sergey Tsapok, the alleged leader of the gang that committed the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, intends to seek for a repeated psychological-psychiatric examination of the defendant, said Igor Skripka, Tsapok's advocate.

Today, during the parties' debate, the prosecutor has asked to re-qualify the charge in the case of the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose punch a Moscow student Ivan Agafonov had died, to a softer one – "causing death by negligence", sentence the defendant to two years of freedom restraint and release him from custody.

The advocates of the young activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC) will appeal to the Court of Cassation to challenge the verdict of the Appeals Court, said Vage Grigoryan, the advocate of Tigran Arakelyan, who was sentenced to 6 years in prison for hooliganism. ANC supporters believe that the accused oppositionists can become political prisoners.

As reported by the press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Abkhazia, the republic has received 103 immigrants from Syria. The head of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab has ordered to pay a monthly allowance of 10,000 roubles (Russian rouble is the Abkhazian money) to each unemployed adult family member of repatriates and 3000 rouble per minor.

The Turkish authorities propose to open a transport corridor in North Ossetia to promote trade relations with regions of Russia and countries of Central Asia, as well as to start a bus service between the countries. This was stated on November 13 by Bulent Ugur Ecevit, the head of the delegation of the Ministry of Economy and Association of Exporters of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, at opening of the Russian-Turkish Business Forum in Vladikavkaz.

On November 13, Dato Golidzhashvili, a heavily sick inmate of Prison No. 15 in Georgia, went on hunger strike in protest against refusal of his CER (conditional early relief).

On November 14, in Tbilisi, three fired employees of the electricity company "Telasi" – Giorgi Lomidze, Zura Meladze and Lasha Kvachadze – went on hunger strike. They hold their protest near the office of the company, where they set up a tent and where dismissed employees gather.

Ashot Chtrkyan, a prisoner at the "Nubarashen", has stopped his hunger strike, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

Human rights activists in Sochi are busy to figure out the location of five detained citizens of Uzbekistan, who are criminally prosecuted after the mass brawl on November 5.

Today, a solo picket was held at the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with an appeal to Russian authorities to organize urgent evacuation of Circassian compatriots from Syria struck by military conflict to their historical homeland, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is ready to complete the water-supply projects in villages of South Ossetian by the end of this year.

As stated today by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", at a press conference in Moscow, the acquitting verdict passed to Nazir Guliev, a former employee of the Ingush MIA, is illegitimate. According to her version, Guliev should have not been acquitted and released from liability.

The tenants of the two-storey house in Makhachkala, where a fire broke out on November 13, complain that they have nowhere to live.

Today, Volodya Matevosyan, who suffered from the collapse of an unfinished building in central Yerevan, was transferred from the intensive care unit to a regular ward, said Gagik Manukyan, Director for urgent health care of the Medical Centre "Grigor Lusavorich".

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has rejected the complaint lodged by Andrei Krasnenkov, the legal representative of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, against the decision of the Tver District Court to refuse to recover from the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" of 500,000 roubles of compensation under the case of defending the honour, dignity and business reputation.

Evgeny Gurov, ex-defendant on the case of mass murder in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya, submitted a claim of compensation for moral damage inflicted on him to a total sum of one million rubles, Kushevsky district court reported.