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Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili granted pardon to 137 prisoners on the occasion of the "Giorgoba" holiday. This was reported by Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, Minister of Corrections, Probation and Legal Assistance.

Swiss company SGS was commissioned with control of cargo traffic at the border between Georgia, the Russian Federation, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. International monitoring at the border was arranged within the framework of negotiations on Russia’s joining World Trade Organization (WTO).

Mayor’s office of Tbilisi declarers resettlement of citizens from houses in an emergency state going within the framework of a target project “New Life to Old Tbilisi” one of the priorities in its activities. 450 families have been resettled and 300 thousand square meters of dwellings built within the framework of the program, however residents of Tbilisi state that not all of them have access to the program.

On November 22, the Uspenskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory began considering the lawsuit lodged by the district public prosecutor on recognition of the religious book of Jehovah's Witnesses "We Fundamentally Evidence Lord's Kingdom".

The mother of Taulan Gochiyaev, a recruit from Karachay-Cherkessia, who was killed in Volgograd in 2010, complains of inaction of law enforcement bodies and demands a fair investigation.

Today, in Yerevan, within the Armenian-Turkish Business Forum, a bilateral Memorandum of Cooperation was signed, which stipulates lobbying the issues related to opening the land border. The document also envisages strengthening of business contacts.

Many houses in the village of Teleshli, located in the Imishli District of Azerbaijan, which was built late last year for the residents of the village, who suffered from the devastating floods of the Kura River, are already in the condition unfit for living, said Oktai Gyulalyev, coordinator of the staff of the public society "Kura".

The rally in Makhachkala against "arbitrariness of law enforcers", which was attended on November 21 by about a thousand persons, ended with adoption of an appeal to presidents of Russia and Dagestan Dmitry Medvedev and Magomedsalam Magomedov. The appeal notes that the republic sees a real civil war, as a result of which several hundreds of people perished within the last year only.

The Lenkoran District Court of Azerbaijan has sentenced Aidyn Djanyev, a regional correspondent of the newspaper "Khural", to three years in jail for disorderly conduct in relation to the mosque Akhund. Journalists believe that Djanyev was punished for his newspaper article with criticism of the clergy.

On November 20, Yerevan hosted the third international exhibition of dogs of all breeds of the rank CACIB (candidates for international beauty champions), named "Armenia-2011". One of the main objectives of the event, as stated by the organizers, was promotion of the indigenous Armenian Gampra Wolfhound.

The Orenburg Branch of the Interregional Public Organization "Committee Against Torture" holds a public inquiry into the death of Armen Sargsyan, a local resident, on November 18 in the premises of the operative and investigatory unit of the MIA Department for Orenburg; his father has applied for legal aid to human rights defenders, who do not exclude that he was tortured to death.

Location of Rasul Magomedov, teacher of the Russian language and literature in a secondary school of Balakhna, who disappeared in Makhachkala on November, 17, under vague circumstances, is still unknown in Dagestan.

Rafig Tagi, writer of political essays, who underwent an assault on November, 19, in Baku does not rule out that the motive for the attempt might have been his publications in which he touched upon religious issues.

In January, 2012, a joint Armenian-Russian astronomic program “Observing space debris” will be launched. This was reported by Aik Arutiunyan, Director of Biurakan Observatory.

Magomed Markhiev, ex-Vice Premier of Ingushetia, Head of republican social insurance fund, was operated on as a result of a robbery assault. His leg was dismembered and he is still in a grave state.

The Department of Investments and Project Support of the Krasnodar Territory has launched a telephone hotline on improvement of the investment climate in the region.

On November 21, employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of the township of Shamkhal (Kirov District of Makhachkala) detained eleven locals; two of them were heavily beaten, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by the father of one of the detainees – Magdan Taimaskhanov.

Within the Sixth Day of Circassian Culture, held on November 7 at the European Parliament, a declaration on national rights of Circassians was adopted.

Russia's payments for renting the Gabala Radar Station (RS) are not adequate to the value of the station and the risks of Azerbaijan, said Araz Azimov, Deputy Foreign Minister.

Today, employees of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division) have detained two nephews of Uzlipat Gazieva, a resident of the village of Chontaul of the Kizilyurt District – Ramazan, 26, and Magomed, 23, Abdulkerimov. The woman has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about the incident.