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In the evening of November, 11, some unidentified persons fired upon the district militia officer's house in the settlement of Sergokala, Sergokala district of Dagestan, no one was injured, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

Pyatimat Khashagulgova, resident of Karabulak, wife of Issa Khashagulgov suspected of terrorism, told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot" that she still could not take her children to school and was also concerned about her relatives' security.

Zaruii Postanjyan, Deputy of the parliamentary fraction of "Heritage" party, visited Nicola Pashinyan, Editor-if Chief of "Aikakan Zhamanak" newspaper condemned in connection with post-election events of 2008, in prison. During the visit Pashinyan told her that at night when he was asleep two masked people wearing black clothes attacked him and started beating him up.

The Antiterrorist Commission of the Volgograd Region has decided to set up a counter-terror information group, comprised of representatives of scientific and creative intellectuals, public figures, clergymen, special agents and administrative officials.

On November 10 in Yerevan, a group of prisoners with AIDS aiming to express their protest against their custody, climbed onto the roof of the penal institution "Hospital for Convicts" of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

On November 10, in the Krasnodar Territory, young deputies of the Slavianskiy District held an ecological action "Clean Beach" on the coast of the Azov Sea.

Valery Morozov, head of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Moskonversprom", who stated earlier about corruption schemes used in construction of Olympic objects in Sochi with participation of Kremlin officials, believes that he is under pressure in the form of unjustified claims of tax authorities. The Tax Inspection has moved a bill of 113 million roubles to him.

Yesterday, on November 10, the South-Ossetian party handed a citizen of Georgia, 15, who was detained on November 9 at crossing the border, in the official order to representatives of the Georgian MIA.

Seven militiamen were killed; seven more persons, including one militiaman and six occasional passers-by, were wounded in a series of attacks on various objects in Makhachkala. Four attackers also perished; the car, in which they tried to escape, blew up.

On November 10, Ummupazil Omarova, Ombudsperson in Dagestan, visited Murtazali Adukhov, a patient of the trauma ward of the central city hospital Khasavyurt, who, according to his story, was severely beaten on November 8 by militiamen of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division).

Today, the Plenum of the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has considered, at its extraordinary sitting, the issue of implementation of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in relation to imprisoned journalist Einullah Fatullaev.

For several days in a row, senior pupils of several Tbilisi schools were holding actions with a demand from the Ministry of Education and Sciences to cancel the eight certification exams introduced during this school year. The last action of this sort was held on November 9.

Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, met in London with the heads of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and asked for help in saving the Georgian sailors, for more than two months kept by Somalia pirates.

An investigation of a criminal case against a resident of the settlement of Demino accused according to part 1, clause 282 "Fomentation of hatred and animosity and derogation of human dignity" of Criminal code of the Russian Federation has been accomplished in Stavropol. This news came from Olga Naumenko, Aid Head of Stavropol inter-regional investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation in the district, on November, 10.

Yesterday, November, 10, militia personnel searched the flat of Mikhail Piskunov, student of Novosibirsk State University and one of the organizers of an abandoned show of a documentary about murdered journalist Anastasia Baburova.

A 24-year-old resident of Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya was kidnapped last night not far from "Caucasus" federal highway. This news has been reported by the kidnapped young man's relatives who are still unable to find out where he is.

A worker of an enterprise "Chechenlesprom" was blown up by a trip-wire mine during timber harvesting works in the South of Chechnya. The man remained alive only by a lucky chance and even got no missile wounding.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has promulgated its decisions on the cases of the former minister for economic development of Azerbaijan Farkhad Aliev and former president of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Academician Eldar Salaev.

In South Ossetia, near the settlement of Grom, Tskhinvali District of South Ossetia, a border infringer was detained. This was reported by the press service of the Frontier Department of the Russian FSB in South Ossetia. The Georgian party asserts that the detention was illegal.

The official Baku believes that the statements of US and EU officials that the November 7 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan failed to meet international standards, suffer from real grounds, since the elections, according to the country's leadership, took place in democratic environment.