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In the mountains of Karachay-Cherkessia, a local resident affected by explosion of an improvised explosive device planted in a backpack which had been abandoned in the mountains. This was reported by a source in the law enforcement agencies of the region.

Residents of the city of Zverevo of Rostov Region, who held today a regular picket near the building of the city administration, complain that Mayor Alexander Chumakov refuses to start a dialogue and to listen to the protesters' demands. Officials from the city administration state that they are ready to participate in a constructive dialogue and they treat the today's picket as a "little provocation".

Nowhere in Russia, no victims of terror acts have been registered, and the fact that nobody cares of the victims is awful. This was emphasized by the authors of the project "White Book of Terror" at the presentation held at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University (KBSU).

Investigators have filed a charge against Dmitry Putenikhin, the 21-year-old activist of the Other Russia, who splashed water in prosecutor, of threatening the life of the state official, who administered justice. This was reported today by the lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina.

The Federal Lezghin National and Cultural Autonomy (FLNCA) supported journalist Vladimir Solovyov, who spoke strongly against the Azerbaijani National Airline "AZAL", which had not allowed the Russian citizen Sergey Gyurdjian to enter an aircraft's board because of his Armenian origin.

Prosecutor General's sanctioned the indictment against Dmitry Shavelev, ex-operative inspector of Chief Directorate of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Southern Federal okrug. He is accused of planting one kilogram heroin into the car belonging to Alexander Afanasiev, Director of OBI store in Volgograd.

In Melnikov street, South-East of Moscow, a modular temple in memory of the victims of terror in the Theatrical Center in Dubrovka which happened nine years ago is being built. The first stone was laid in the foundation of the temple in April, 2011, and the building is expected to be accomplished in 2012.

The Armenian of Istanbul collected forty thousand Turkish liras for the people who got injured in an earthquake in the Turkish province of Van. On November, 7, new earthquake shocks were registered in the region.

A supposed participant of armed underground detained on November, 3, in the foothill Urus-Martan district of Chechnya, is a native of Kazakhstan, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Chechen Republic reported.

In Yerevan, November 3 was the last day of the three-day seminar for judges and lawyers, organized by the Public Organization "Union of European Rights" with the support of the OSCE Office and US Embassy. According to the Chair of the "Union of European Rights", Armenian journalists, lawyers have very poor awareness in the sphere of the human right to the freedom of speech; and the seminar was aimed at repairing the situation.

In Dagestan, Naima Alborueva, the mother of the kidnapped Fatima Alborueva, complains about inaction of law enforcers; however, the local MIA claims that they run a proper inquiry into the crime.

The four persons who attacked on October 31 in Kutaisi the photographer Robert Kvlividze (Roberto Kvelini), have been detained by Georgian policemen and identified by the photographer; he himself told about it, adding that he did not know the suspects' names.

As reported today by a source from Ingush law enforcement bodies, an employee of the Nazran Prosecutor's Office was wounded, when his car was shelled by a group of unidentified persons.

In the course of public debates (and a press conference) on the topic "Repatriation Issues of Meskhetian Muslims", held in the Tbilisi office of the Heinrich Boell Foundation, Georgian public activists reproached the Ministry for Refugees' Matters and Internally Displaced Persons of Georgia of slow consideration of repatriation applications lodged by Meskhetian Turks evicted from Georgia back in 1944.

The lack of jobs, dwellings and conditions for entrepreneurial activity are the point of the greatest concern of young people in Rostov region. According to Oleg Otrokov, Chairman of Youth Government of the region, these problems were discussed at a round table conference and directed to parliamentary candidates of State Duma for consideration.

Two miners perished under a blockage in the mine named after Mindeli in Tkibuli. Tamaz Dolaberidze, Chairman of Trade Union of workers of metallurgical, mining and chemical industry, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the supposed case of the blockage was shaking of a coal massif as a result of an earthquake.

On November, 6, the first contest "Miss Eurasia" passed off in Blagoveshensk. Representatives of Russia, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan and Armenia took part in it. Stela Kirakosyan, native of Armenia, became the winner.

In the capital of North Ossetia, a mass brawl burst out in the place of a road accident involving residents of Ingushetia; several persons were taken to hospital, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Sochi, from October 31, drinking water supply was cut off in Plastunskaya Street and Ambulatorny Lane; over a hundred local residents remain without water, as they told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent themselves.

Today, as reported by the operational headquarters of the region, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, which lasted more than eight months, was cancelled in the Elbrus and part the Baksan Districts of Kabardino-Balkaria.