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First 82 participants of mass fight of foreign workers in the site of the construction of sports and tourist complex "Mountain Carousel" in Sochi sent to places of their permanent residence. This was reported by the UVD (Interior Department). Local human rights defenders report complaints of detained workers from Uzbekistan about torture at police stations.

Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on amendments to the Council under the Russian President for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC). This was reported by the Kremlin's website. The new Council includes 62 persons; meanwhile, the HRC does not include any representative from Northern Caucasus.

Human rights defenders, who watched the progress of the trial, believe that the verdict of the Karabulak Court on the case against Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, former staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, accused of torture, is indecisive and inconsistent and it causes perplexity.

The police detected a criminal group who within half a year sold up to 12 children from Chechnya and Dagestan to residents of Russia and Turkey, sources in law enforcement bodies reported.

In Georgia, workers on the construction of the Paravan Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) declared a strike, demanding to raise wages and pay arrears for two months.

Taimuraz Mamsurov, the leader of North Ossetia, has awarded the title of Hero of Russia to Police Lieutenant Zaur Djibilov, an inspector of the road-and-patrol service, who died on October 23 as a result of the terror act, committed at the checkpoint-105 in the village of Chermen.

Today, Beslan Teuvazhev, an activist of the Circassian community of Moscow, held a solo picket in support of Syrian Circassians in front of the building of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The protest action took place without incidents, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In the vicinities of the Tbilisi International Airport, a grave of four Chechens, killed during a special operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Ministry of Defence of Georgia in August 2012, was found. The killed men were buried in a narrow 9-meter pit. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Umar Idigov, a nephew of Djokhar Dudaev, First Chechen President, a member of the Chechen community in Georgia.

This morning, the Poti port resumed its work, the new leaders of the enterprise managed to reach an agreement with the workers on strike. This was reported by Giorgy Kvirikashvili, Minister of Economy.

Armenia holds fundraising for Serob Bozoyan, sentenced to a year of imprisonment for filling balloons with combustible gas methane. The funds are being raised for his medical treatment.

In Sochi, on November 9, Federal Judge Sergey Martynenko extended the detention of Yulia Zhigulina, suspected of the murder of 87-year-old Antonina Mayevskaya, till December 12.

Relatives of Khasan Esmurziev, a resident of Ingushetia, detained by power agents, claim cartridges were planted to his house during the search. They sent Pavel Belyakov, Prosecutor of Ingushetia, a complaint against the actions of policemen, who conducted the search in the house.

Human rights defenders report unlawful detention of three residents of Makhachkala. According to eyewitnesses, the detainees were beaten by law enforces, and weapons were planted to them.

In the evening of November 9, in Moscow, unidentified persons, armed with traumatic weapons, committed two attacks on natives of Northern Caucasus.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court pronounced pre-trial restriction measure for Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of the Internal Affairs and Defence of Georgia, in the form of pre-trial detention for two months.

Today, the judicial district No. 18 in Nazran received a complaint, filed against the decision of the Magistrate Judge Alikhan Tomov with regard to five members of the regional public movement "Mekhk-Kkhel", arrested for 15 days for disobeying policemen. This was reported by lawyer Sergey Pozhidaev.

Students from Armenian families of Syria, who arrived to Nagorno-Karabakh, can study at local institutions of higher education for free; the programme of assistance is being implemented by means of benefactors. This was reported by Ara Arutyunyan, Prime Minister of the republic.

The Tbilisi Mayoralty promises to fulfil all demands of public transport drivers, who took part in the strike, held on November 8, except for the demand to raise wages.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria appointed additional attorneys to seven defendants on the case of assault at Nalchik committed in October of 2005.

On November, 8, 47 families in Krymsk who lost their dwellings as a result of the flood of July, 6 and 7, were handed keys to new flats. All of them will settle in a nine-storey house in Proletarskaya street in the center of the town which is part of “Nadezhda” (”Hope”) dwelling complex specially built for the victims of the flood.