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Today, in Armenia, in front of the presidential palace, a protest action was held, which was attended by relatives and friends of soldiers perished in the army. Participants of the protest action demanded a fair investigation into deaths in the army.

The court has fined Elena Belan, a participant of the "March of Millions", held in Rostov-on-Don, by 20,000 roubles.

An 18-year-old native of Azerbaijan, who on November 12 shot from a traumatic pistol at the wedding party, was detained for two days. This was reported by the Moscow police.

Today, in Yerevan, within the ongoing Inter-Party Consultations, dedicated to the creation of the Eurasian Union, a memorandum was signed of cooperation between the political parties of Armenia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.

Today, in front of the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), a solo picket was held, urging the Russian authorities to immediately evacuate Circassian compatriots to their historic homeland from Syria, involved in military conflict.

Today, the court sentenced a resident of Budennovsk, who was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, to 15 years of imprisonment in high security colony. This was reported by Violetta Bondareva, the head of the united press service of the courts of the Stavropol Territory.

The Division for Especially Serious Cases Investigation of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Kabardino-Balkaria instituted a criminal case under Article "Fraud committed on a large scale" against Ivan Gerter, the former head of the Government of Kabardino-Balkaria.

The Appellate Criminal Court of Armenia brought a standing judgment concerning a verdict of a primary jurisdiction court sentencing four young oppositional activists to custody for hooliganism.

At night of November, 11, leaflets calling for people not to remain indifferent in the situation when the Cherkessians perish in Syria appeared in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. However, the residents of Nalchik did not have time to see the leaflets because they were torn down.

Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision on the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of keeping in custody against Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Defence and Internal Affairs of Georgia.

During the process on the case of mass murder in Kushevskaya Krasnodar regional court dismissed a motion of suspect Sergey Tsapok’s attorney, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny drew the attention of readers of his blog to order the Government of the Astrakhan Region of two Mercedes cars worth 11.7 million roubles.

Three residents of Chegem district of Kabardino-Balkaria accused of gang rape of a fourteen-year-old girl from Kursk region in the settlement of Nartan were sentenced to custody terms of 4,5 to 9 years of custody by the Supreme Court of the republic, a representative of regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reported.

On November 12, in Yerevan, in front of the residence of Armenian President, "United Youth League" held the last action within the campaign to collect signatures "against the sects". Participants of the action demand to establish an agency to control the activities of religious organizations and to amend the legislative code to introduce a definition of "soul hunting".

Today, in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, Sapiyat Magomedova, lawyer from Dagestan today received an award named Per Anger.

Signing of the agreement on simplification of visa regime between Armenia and the European Union is scheduled for December 2012, and the document will contribute to the development of economic and cultural relations between the countries. This was reported by Traian Hristea, the head of the EU delegation to Armenia.

Today, Aslanbek Nachoev, an activist of the Circassian community of Moscow, held a solo picket in support of Circassian of Syria in front of the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation.

Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, faces charges of torture. This was reported today by his lawyer David Dekanoidze.

The Georgian side will not extradite to the Russian Federation Akhmed Chataev, a Russian citizen, an ethnic Chechen, who was detained during a special operation to eliminate an illegal armed formation (IAF). This was announced today by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

Taimuraz Mamsurov, the leader of North Ossetia, appealed to Alexei Orlov, the leader of Kalmykia, with a request to ensure the investigation into the fact of violence in the territory of the penal colony "IK-1".