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On November 22-23, Yerevan will be the venue of a forum devoted to the development of Armenian-Turkish economic relations. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it at the Yerevan office of the "Eurasia" Foundation, one of the organizers of the forum.

In the morning on November 20, a shot from the Azerbaijani side killed Migran Margaryan, born in 1992, a regular soldier of the Nagorno-Karabakh Defence Army (NKDA). The Karabakh party believes that he was shot dead by an Azerbaijani sniper.

Villagers from Shamkhal, where on November 19 several residents were detained, were among the participants of the rally in Makhachkala "against arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies". The speakers urged residents of Dagestan to protect their rights, by overcoming their fear, and promised new protests.

Rostov-on-Don has seen a series of solo pickets in support of Maxim Slipchenko and Evgeniy Melnikov, arrested for 10 days. According to the organizers of the actions, on November 13-19 from two to seven persons held pickets in Rostov-on-Don, at the building of the Russian Presidential Envoy in the Southern Federal District (SFD).

The today's meeting in Makhachkala of Austrian businessmen with the leadership of Dagestan has announced the upcoming visit to the republic of "Raiffeisenbank" officials to open a representative office. The talks involve also representatives of the "Audi" Concern.

Committee of Inquiry of Kabardino-Balkaria informed that three gunmen were killed during a special operation in Nalchik.

An inter-regional art festival of repressed peoples “Repressed but not broken down” passed off in Elista on November, 18 and 19. The participants came from Ingushetia, Chechen Republic, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia. The hosts and guests demonstrated their culture to each other and discussed questions of the repressed peoples’ rehabilitation.

On Sunday, November, 20, an ecologic meeting “Yeisk without liquid bulk terminals!” was held in the town of Yeisk, Krasnodar region. Its participants came out in opposition against operating oil terminals by “TTDH” and “Yeisk-port-Vista” companies in the center of the health resort.

Yesterday, November, 19, a local resident of the settlement of Sarmakovo, Zolsky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed. His fellow villagers associate the man’s murder with his job: he was a diver of a truck delivering spirit to the local wine factory.

Late in the evening on November 19, an attack on the writer Rafiq Tagi was committed in Azerbaijani capital. The 61-year-old writer was hospitalized in grave condition.

On November 19, within the All-Russian action, pickets were held against high gasoline prices in Rostov-on-Don and Taganrog.

Today, at the "Beslan" Airport, more than 800 persons have met Anthony, Deputy Prior of the Alania Men's Monastery, who had been transferred to Dagestan, but then returned to North Ossetia after protests of local Orthodox believers against his departure.

In the township of Shamkhal, located in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, law enforcers have detained several persons, Shamsudin Magomedov, a local resident, reports.

Pyatimat Kuzgova, the mother of Arthur Gatagazhev, 36, a resident of the Ingush village of Sagopshi, who is searched for organization of and participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs), has addressed her son asking him to get out of the forest and back to normal life under the guarantees of the authorities.

On November 20, Yerevan will host a flashmob dedicated to the Song Contest "Junior Eurovision-2011"." In the centre of the capital of Armenia, the flashmob participants will embark on the long "Cascade" stairway forming the inscriptions "Junior Eurovision" and "2011 Dalita".

On November 18, a high foaming was observed in the Mzymta River and the Black Sea coastal areas adjacent to its mouth in the Krasnodar Territory; ecologists say about another discharge of harmful substances into the water.

On November 20, in Volgograd, a group of girls will hold an action "Roads-34" against the poor condition of city streets and sidewalks.

Russia plans to completely reconstruct the Gabala Radar Station (RS) in Azerbaijan, and at the same time to reduce the territory leased for the needs of the RS, said Anatoly Serdyukov, the Russian Minister of Defence.

Suren Khachatryan, Governor of the Syunik Region of Armenia, was summoned to the Special Investigatory Service and questioned within the criminal case regarding the beating of entrepreneur Silva Ambartsumyan.

Today, in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, law enforcers held a special operation and killed Arthur Amriev, who, according to their data, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.