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The Georgian Parliament is drafting – with the participation of academic circles and non-governmental organizations – a unique bill "On Amnesty", where one point assumes to reduce the terms of all the prisoners. This was announced today by Ekaterina Beseliya, Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Civil Integration, at the "roundtable" in Tbilisi, where the bill was discussed.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has opened a criminal case against Siyavush Mamed-Zade, Director General of the Turkish construction company "Penta-Stroy" on the fact of non-payment of wages to company employees. The current whereabouts of Mamed-Zade, who, according to Chechen authorities, disappeared in December 2011 outside the republic, is unknown.

The Krymsk Court has sentenced a local resident, accused of trying to illegally obtain compensation due to flood victims, to six months of corrective labour. In total, to date, eight such criminal cases have been opened, as reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory.

During the check conducted in Dagestani schools, prosecutors revealed 74 teachers who worked on fake diplomas. The check goes on, said a source from the Prosecutor's Office.

According to opposition parties, before and during the protest action in Baku the police detained more than 60 persons.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has accused the Armenian armed forces of breaking the ceasefire on November 16 and at night on November 17. In response, the spokesman of the Defence Army of Nagorno-Karabakh has accused the units of the Azerbaijani Army of shelling along the whole contact line.

Today, in Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava Square, near the monument to Heroes of Revolution in Moscow, a picket was held with an appeal to Russian authorities to promptly evacuate Circassian from the war-torn Syria. The picket gathered 20 participants.

On November 16, Artak Abramyan, an inmate kept in "Nubarashen" prison in Armenia, sewed up his mouth and went on hunger strike, claiming harassment by colony personnel.

On November 15 in Baku, the Court of Grave Crimes began trying four Azerbaijani citizens accused of preparing terror acts during the international song contest "Eurovision-2012".

The regular Europe-wide telethon of the All-Armenian Fund "Hayastan" started on November 15.

Liquidation of old ammunition at the "Ashuluk" Training Range causes seismic tremors registered in Astrakhan; in this context many local residents call the rescue hotline, as reported by the press office of the deputy chairman of the regional government on survivability systems and environmental safety.

The Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations has called on the Russian authorities to pay attention to the problems of Syrian Circassians and help in their resettlement to their historical homeland. The Congress intends to announce this appeal during a picket scheduled in Moscow on November 17.

Today, the capital of North Ossetia has hosted and action "Kindergartens – to Children!" where the participants – more than 50 local residents – demanded from the Russia's Ministry of Defence (MoD) to return the building of a former kindergarten back to the city.

The Prosecutor's Office has appealed against the decision of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow, which declared illegal the refusal to open a criminal case on the hostage liberation operation at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in 2002.

Gennady Onischenko, the head of Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Goods Supervision ("Rospotrebnadzor"), has stated that the delivery of Georgian wines and mineral waters to the Russian market may be resumed after checking the producers.

As stated by Ibragim Mogushkov, the head of the Ingush Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), during ten months of this year the number of attempts on power agents in Ingushetia has double as compared with 2011. This figure matches the statistics of the "Caucasian Knot" gathered during ten months of this year and in 2011.

The investigation has finalized the inquiry into the criminal case against the hospital doctor in Stavropol, where a teenager died from burns received in a fire in a pressure chamber. The doctor is accused of causing death by negligence, the Territorial Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, at the sitting of the Krasnodar Territorial Court on the criminal case against alleged members of the Tsapok's gang, the motion to dismiss the presiding judge was denied for the third time.

The salary debt of the "Dagestani Airlines" to its employees is 30 million, said Abdula Angutaev, the acting director general of the company.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled that the case concerning the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov will be considered with participation of a jury. The selection of jurymen is scheduled for November 30; it will be made by the MCC.