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Some 150-160 trucks with supplies for Armenia have gathered near the checkpoint "Verkhni Lars" in the Russian-Georgian border because of adverse weather conditions, said Manuk Vardanyan, Minister of Transport and Communications of Armenia.

Today, Baku held funeral of the writer and publicist Rafiq Tagi, who died as a result of an attack undertaken on him on November 19. Journalists and the opposition have demanded a thorough investigation into his death.

In the evening on November 22, New York hosted the 21st awarding ceremony of the "Freedom of Press", held by the International Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The Azerbaijani journalist Einullah Fatullaev was among this year's laureates.

Armenian activists have scheduled to hold, in the period from November 25 to December 10, a series of actions under the slogan "Against violence on women in family". November 25 is the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women.

The participants of the two-day Turkish-Armenian business forum, held on November 22-23 in Yerevan, decided in six months to hold a business conference in Turkey. According to their opinion, the main problem between Armenians and Turks is in mutual distrust and lack of information about each other.

The head of the Russian Social Insurance Fund for Ingushetia Magomed Markhiev, who was wounded during an assault on him, was brought by an aircraft of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) to Moscow.

On the day of parliamentary election, December, 4, oppositionists in Rostov-on-Don are planning to hold a people’s gathering “People against illicit election”.

About 40 welders from Astrakhan have not received their salary for shift work in Amur shipbuilding plant in Khabarovsk region for already over two months.

The twelfth European telethon for fund-raising of All-Armenian Foundation “Aiastan” passed off in France on November, 17 – November, 20. Armenians residing in the country expressed their readiness to render Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh aid to a total sum of over 1 million 300 thousand euro.

As a result of a special operation on November, 23, in Cherkessk one of the supposed gunmen who put up armed resistance was killed and one more wounded and detained. They are supposedly participants of a number of assaults at policemen.

The Astrakhan Committee of Soldiers' Mothers received an appeal from regular soldiers of military unit No. 08275 of the training ground "Ashuluk". The soldiers complained about the conditions, in which they are to serve, and about the fact that soldiers without appropriate skills are attracted to the disposal of ammunition.

Today, panel of federal judges of the Rostov Regional Court questioned the prosecutors' and defence's witnesses in a criminal case against three residents of Rostov-on-Don, accused of terrorism.

Court session on the case of the death of Artak Nazaryan, the officer who served under the contract at the Armed Forces of Armenia, was interrupted because of sharp deterioration of health of his mother Asmik Ovanisyan, who was to testify.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the Board of Elders was established under the leader of the region. Today, the first meeting of the new council was held.

On November 23, the court of appeal received evidences from the advocate of Dmitry Putenikhin, the arrested activist of The Other Russia, which could affect the change of his pre-trial freedom restriction measure.

Staff members of the Azerbaijani Office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited three Armenian prisoners of war and five members of an Armenian family, kept in Azerbaijan, the ICRC Office has reported.

In Azerbaijan, writer and publicist Rafiq Tagi has died. On November 19 he was attacked and got numerous knife wounds.

Domestic gas explosion occurred on November 22 at a house in the city of Stavropol. The rescue team reported on five injured persons, two of whom were in grave condition.

Today Moscow city court refused to discharge from custody Magomed Suleimanov accused of murder of ex-colonel Yury Budanov. The court passed a standing judgment on prolongation of Suleimanov’s arrest till December, 10, dismissing the claim of defense.

Actions of representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who failed to detain a person put in the Interpol's wanted lists, represented a clear violation of the Russian law. This was reported by lawyer Igor Trunov and Gennady Gudkov, the State Duma deputy, Colonel of the FSB in reserve, when they commented on the fact that the man, who was put in the wanted lists for Sulim Yamadaev's murder, came to the police to take a pistol found in Moscow, and the police officers failed to detain him.