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Today, a DDOS-attack (Distributed Denial of Service) on the website "Zhivaya Kuban", which positions itself as the Internet diary of Krasnodar Territory, lasted for several hours.

Today, the Eisk City Court has postponed the trial on the death of six schoolchildren from the "Azov" Summer Camp in Eisk Spit.

Personnel of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia arrested directors of six kindergartens and seven accountants in Kutaisi for accusation of misappropriation of budget money.

Investigation started new criminal proceedings on the clause "murder" against Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy formerly convicted for crimes on ethnic grounds, a source in Moscow law enforcement bodies reported.

Telethon-2010 carried out by the All-Armenian Fund "Ayastan" which will be broadcasted from Los Angeles, this year has a slogan "Water is Life". The donations collected will be directed to financing of building water supply systems in Nagorno-Karabakh and assistance to the program of village development in Armenia.

On November, 23, in Shelkovskoy district of Chechnya, drug policemen detained an employee of fire-prevention service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations who is suspected of illegal drug storage.

Editors and journalists of several printed and online mass media of Armenia held an action of protest in Yerevan demanding from the authorities to "stop acts of violence committed in prison against Nikol Pashinyan, Editor-in-Chief of Armenian "New Times" paper" and release him immediately.

In Dagestan, the system for returning militants to peaceful life is ineffective, lawyer Rasul Kadiev asserts. As an example he gives the case, when relatives of the missing resident of the republic Sheikhulislam Abusupyanov approached him as a member of the above commission. However, the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan failed to take steps to search him; and Abusupyanov was soon found murdered.

The Office of Affairs of the Russian President has filed a lawsuit on protection of honour, dignity and business reputation, as well on collection of one million roubles of compensation from the "Novaya Gazeta" for dissemination of false information, said Ekaterina Korotova, press secretary of the Basmanny Court of Moscow.

In the course of the reception session, residents of Kuschevskaya village, Krasnodar Territory, submitted over 180 allegations of crimes to the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO). Currently, all the received information is analyzed and summed up.

Tonight, unidentified attackers made a shot from a rifle-attached grenade launcher at the building of the OVD (Interior Division) in the Dagestan city of Derbent. There are no casualties and victims, said a source from local law enforcement bodies.

Ruzana Ivanova, 12, whose disappearance in Makhachkala was earlier declared by her mother Elena Ivanova, a resident of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, returned to her relatives at night on November 17, having managed to escape from her kidnappers. Her relatives are dissatisfied with the progress of the investigation.

Today, Musheg Sagatelyan, an activist of the opposition and a member of the "Republic" Party, was let free from the criminal-correction institution "Nubarashen" after having served half of his sentence.

At the republic's shopping centre "Berkat" in Grozny, employees of the Centre of Spiritual and Moral Education and Development held an action with an appeal to fair trade. Traders in the marketplace were given letters; and sermons were read on the issue of fair trade.

One of the four soldiers, who were wounded in the incident in the Gadrut unit of the Nagorno-Karabakh Army - Manvel Azroyan - has been charged of murder one or more persons. His arrest was chosen as a freedom restriction measure, reports the Investigatory Service of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia.

On Monday, November 22, Andrei Smaga, head of the section of Russia's interests at the Swiss Embassy in Georgia, visited the Russian citizens accused of espionage. Neither the Russian nor the Georgian parties make any comments on the meeting.

At the session of the Lefortovo District Court held on November 23 on selection of the further freedom restriction measure for Issa Khashagulgov, suspected of organizing the terror act in Vladikavkaz, extension of his custody was defined well in advance, his advocates assert.

On November, 23, a ceremony of awarding the laureates of international prize "Free Press" 2010 by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) was held in New York, a thirty-one-year-old journalist from Dagestan, Nadira Isayeva, Editor-in-Chief of "Chernovik" ("Draft") weekly among them.

One more suspect of having committed the mass murder in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar region, was detained tonight. This is Igor Chernikh by alias of "Amur", born in 1965, previously convicted.

An armed attack upon the servicemen of a unit of federal military forces took place tonight in Urus-Martan foothill district of Chechnya. One of the servicemen got wounded in his head. Security officials are currently in search of the attackers.