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Today, the court of Malaysia has started its first hearing of the case of Daredzhan Kokhtashvili, a citizen of Georgia, accused of drug trafficking. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia waits for the details of the first hearing, which, according to Malaysian laws, is held without an advocate.

The Krasnodar Territory and Rostov-on-Don hold funerals of the victims of the mass murder committed on November 5 in Kuschevskaya village. Today, a sitting will be held in the village will participation of Alexander Tkachov, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, and Alexander Bastrykin, head of the Russian Investigatory Committee of Russia, and on the issue of the investigation into the massacre of 12 persons.

On November 7 in Sochi, the rally dated to the 93rd anniversary of the October Revolution brought together about three hundred residents, who were holding red flags, posters and portraits of Stalin and Lenin, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

At their working meeting in Moscow, Sergey Lavrov, Elmar Mamedyarov and Eduard Nalbandyan, Foreign Ministers of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, accordingly, discussed the issues of settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

The participants of the "Strategy-31" protest action, fined under the Administrative Code for holding their event without coordination with the city administration of Rostov-on-Don, would not pay the fine imposed by the court.

In 2010, the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has detected more than three thousand law violations committed in the course of implementing national projects. Now, 16 criminal cases are investigated on facts of budget embezzlement and under other articles of the Criminal Code.

Garry Dzhopua, a citizen of Abkhazia, whose fate remained unknown after his kidnapping on October 9, is at large. The former hostage is almost unable to recognize his relatives; he is now examined at one of local hospitals.

An anti-corruption "hotline" has been opened in the Government of Ingushetia. Telephone calls from the residents are received round-the-clock.

Law enforcement bodies of the republic reported that in the evening of November, 7, some unidentified people in Baksan district of Kabardino-Balkaria fired upon a car of "Rosneft" oil company, the driver of the "KamAz" was hospitalized as a result.

During the action held on November, 7, in front of the Georgian Parliament in Tbilisi by representatives of NGOs and members of the opposition it was decided to issue a "Book of Honour" where the desires of the residents of the country concerning the future of Georgia would we collected.

A procession and a ceremonial meeting devoted to the 93-rd anniversary of October revolution passed off in Volgograd. Different sources evaluate the number of the participants from 1500 to 5000 people.

The husband of one of the two female citizens of Georgia, detained in Malaysia on October 27 and accused of importing pretty plenty of drugs, has surrendered to Georgian police and gave evidence revealing his guilt, reports the press service of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In Dagestan, experts and public figures question the effectiveness of the commission established under the republic's leader and aimed to assist in adaptation of pardoned militants.

Experts believe that the totals of the November 2 midterm US Congress elections will be positive for Armenia: more than 90 percent of the candidates supported by Armenian community in the USA were elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate.

On November 7, in the capital of Georgia, near the building of the parliament, a protest action will take place at the initiative of Georgian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and human rights activists.

Today, Nagorno-Karabakh has handed over the bodies of two Azerbaijani soldiers - Mubariz Ibragimov and Farid Akhmedov - to the Azerbaijani party. In return, Karabakh received the body of Gavrosh Arustamyan, 86.

On November 9, the Armenian capital of Yerevan will host an opposition rally demanding to release political prisoners.

On November 5, relatives of the Georgian sailors captured by Somali pirates held picket at the building of Adzharian government. They demanded a meeting with local officials and called on the authorities and diplomatic corps of Georgia to be proactive in their efforts to free the hostages.

The body of Manvel Saribekyan, a citizen of Armenia, who died in Azeri captivity, which was handed over on November 4 by Azerbaijan to the Armenian party, has signs of torture revealed by the examination, said the press service of General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia.

The opposition party of ex-parliament speaker Nino Burdzhanadze - "Democratic Movement-United Georgia" stands against adoption by the Parliament of Georgia in the first hearing of the bill named "The Freedom Charter".