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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.

The Centre for Prevention and Control of AIDS and Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Public Health of Kabardino-Balkaria continues receiving patients, suspected of botulism, who got poisoned at the cafe-canteen of the Republic's State Agricultural Academy. In total, 43 persons have been hospitalized.

On the eve of the Muslim holiday of Kurban Bayram, poor families living in settlements of the republic will receive free animals for the rite of sacrifice.

Vladimir Bulanov, a pensioner from the city of Taganrog, seeks to reduce the pension appointed to Vladimir Chub, the former governor of the Rostov Region.

As reported by Elina Marzoeva, the spokespersons of Djambolat Tedeev's office, three supporters of Alla Djioeva were attacked in South Ossetia.

The founder and editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper Avaz Zeinalov has faced additional charges. He is accused of repeatedly taking bribes.

On November 4, one year after the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, the villagers held a mourning rally and paid tribute to perished families.

On November 4, over a thousand people took part in the "Russian March" in Volgograd. The police detained a participant who glorified Hitler.

Parliamentarians of North Ossetia offer to toughen sanctions for spreading false information on the Internet. This was discussed at the sitting of the Board of the Parliament on November 3.

On November 4, an action was held in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria with a demand of a fair sentence to Aslan Cherkesov convicted of murdering the football fan Yegor Sviridov. About three hundred people blocked the Federal Highway Rostov-Baku at the exit from Nalchik at the Arch of Triumph in the "Strelka" District.

In the morning on November 3, the forced migrants or internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Chechnya and North Ossetia, who have been living for about twenty years in the so-called "temporary accommodation centres" (TACs), located in the territory of Ingushetia, were disconnected from the electricity supply. Around 200 persons, including elderly ones, invalids and children, remained without power. After their complaints, the electricity supply was resumed; however, the refugees fear that all the utilities may be cut off.

Today, it is one year after the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, when the name of the small Russian village became a household word.

Today, the Baku Appeal Court considered the appeal complaints against the decisions of the Nizami District Court on the case of the arrested editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural" Avaz Zeinalov. The verdict of the first instance was upheld.

On November 3, the Nasimi District Court of Baku, chaired by Judge Etibar Gumbatov, considered the complaint lodged by lawyer Khalid Bagirov against the Azerbaijani Bar Association, in which the lawyer demanded to recognize the decision of the Presidium of the Bar to suspend his lawyer's license illegal. The Court denied his petition.

The journalists of the newspaper "Armenian Panorama", which is published in the Stavropol Territory, have addressed their open letter to Alexander Khloponin, Russian President's Plenipotentiary for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), stating that passengers of Armenian air flights, including citizens of Russia, are regularly insulted at the Mineralnye Vody Airport.

On November 1-3, during three days of the solidarity action, 3932 new accounts were opened in the bank "Kartu" owned by the businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, Nodar Djavakhishvili, Director General of the bank, said today.