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A tanker of a Russian company "Novoship/Sovkomflot" NS Spirit (Novorossiisk, Krasnodar region) which was in the roads of Lagos sea-port in Nigeria was attacked this night, one of the sailors got wounded.

The personnel of Investigative Service of the Ministry of Finance sealed several drugstores in Tbilisi. According to preliminary data, the reason for doing so has been law violations in sales of psychotropic medications.

On November, 21, some unidentified people shot down a district militiaman and stole his Government-issue pistol in a district militia department of Nalchik, a source in law enforcement bodies reported.

On November 20, a picket was held in Taras Shevchenko Embankment in Moscow in support of the Balkars, who are holding their protest action in Manezh Square for many days already. The picket was initiated by Karachai and Balkar youth.

On November 19, the capital of North Ossetia started a daytime care centre for children suffering from cerebral palsy and Down's syndrome.

Yusup Dzangiev, arrested by the court of Vladikavkaz on suspicion of committing the explosion in the city marketplace September 9 and other terror acts, was previously accused of involvement in the murder of family members of the teacher Vera Draganchuk on August 31, 2007, in Ingushetia; however, he was released without charges.

A local resident was injured by an explosion that happened near the marketplace in the city of Nazran and hospitalized.

As a result of another incident on the contact line of Nagorno-Karabakh with Azerbaijan, four soldiers were killed from a machinegun; four others were wounded.

Khanifat Gichueva, a resident of the Chernyaevka village, Kizlyar District of Dagestan, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband Sheikhulislam Abusupyanov, who disappeared on November 18, was found dead.

As a result of a conflict between employees of the commercial bank and their customers in the city of Derbent in Dagestan one person was killed and two more hospitalized.

The Georgian State Commission on Pardons has prepared a pardon list for President Mikhail Saakashvili. The pardon will be dated to November 23 - one of the most popular national holidays of Georgia - Giorgoba (St George's Day).

This year, at the international documentary film festival in the Netherlands, the right to present her best ten films was granted to Finnish film director Pirjo Khonkassalo. She brought to the festival a film about the war in Chechnya, where heroes are members of the Gataev Chechen family.

The Somalia pirates who captured a ship of a Greek company with 15 Georgian and 3 Turkish citizens on board announced on November 16 that if they do not receive 15 million US dollars within three days, they will kill the hostages and sink the ship.

Egle Kusaite, a young Lithuanian woman, accused of creating a group for committing a terror act on some military object in Russia, said that she had given confessional evidences in exchange for promises that her friends from near Moscow - Chechen Aishat and Apti Magmadov - would be left alive. Egle told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during a meeting in Vilnius.

Sergey Basmanov, Director of human rights center "Defense of Citizens' Rights and Interests" in Sochi, who had formerly reported threats against him declared that the personnel of law enforcement bodies have treated him improperly.

The action, which took place on November 18, the World Day of Quitting Smoking, in Rostov-on-Don showed that smokers are tough in quitting the habit.

Three officials of the Department of Federal Service of Drug Traffic Control (FSDTC) of Russia in Dagestan were detained on November, 18, for suspicion of bribery.

At night on November 19, unidentified assailants shelled the military unit and police station in the village of Khunzakh, the Khunzakh District, with grenade launchers; no one was hurt.

Yesterday at about 22:05 some unidentified persons fired upon a roadside cafe from a grenade launcher and self-firers in Derbent district of Dagestan. There are no victims or injured persons, the building got insignificantly damaged. Law enforcement bodies are currently searching the criminals.

Early in the morning of November, 19, Salyan district court of Azerbaijan granted the petition of a young blogger Emin Milly for early release for he had served over a half of his penalty term.