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Workers of mass media, authorities and the public took part in the section "Inter-Confessional and Interethnic Dialogue in Media Space" of the forum "Caucasus: Tradition and Modernization", held on November 30, 2009, in Nalchik.

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, on November 25 in Karabulak, two suspected militants were killed in a skirmish in their VAZ-2109 car. The casualties were Mustafa Tochiev and Khamzat Uzhakhov. Mustafa was in federal search. However, the eyewitnesses and Uzhakhov's relatives assert that Tochiev was just a passenger in Uzhakhov's taxi car.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia has handed over to Russia its notes of protest related to the murder in Moscow on November 23 of Eduard Gurtskaya, a refugee from Abkhazia, and detention on November 29 of Ramaz Makasarashvili, a citizen of Georgia.

Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the humanitarian organization "Let's Save the Generation", who was kidnapped and murdered together with her husband Alik Dzhabrailov in Grozny earlier this August, was an occasional victim of the culprits: she died because of the husband. This was stated on Tuesday by Victor Ledenyov, head of the Investigatory Department for Chechnya of the ICPO (Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office) of Russia.

On Tuesday, the Novgorod Regional Court extended till March 3, 2010, the custody of Salanbek Dzakhkiev and Maksharip Khidriev, suspected figurants in the first explosion of the "Neva-Express" train committed in August 2007. This was announced by the spokesman of the united press service of the Novgorod regional judiciary.

One of the sections of the Forum "Caucasus. Traditions and Modernization", held today in Kabardino-Balkaria, was on the forms and problems of running business in the Caucasus. Many participants agreed that local authorities are hindering successful businesses in the Caucasus.

On November 29, the General Consulate of Azerbaijan in St Petersburg reported that there were no citizens of Azerbaijan among those who perished or suffered in the explosion of the "Neva-Express" fast train.

Ruslan Badalov, Chairman of the Russian Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation", was shocked by the statement of Maksharip Khidriev, a resident of Ingushetia, who pled guilty of preparing the first terror act against the "Neva-Express" train. In the opinion of human rights activist, there are eyewitnesses who evidence Khidriev's alibi.

Ruslan Keshev, leader of the public organization named "Circassian Congress", was violently beaten. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt from duly informed sources that at 5:30 p.m. several persons, led by a criminal authority, rushed into the office of the NGO and attacked him. Mr Keshev had his nose and arm broken and received other traumas.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" plans to restart its activities in the territory of the Chechen Republic in near future. However, the format can be somewhat different.

The quarantine, introduced in Grozny a week ago because of outbreak of acute respiratory diseases (ARDs), is cancelled. All the 40 schools of the city have resumed their work in full, as the spokesman from the department of education of the city of Grozny told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

So far, the power agencies of Chechnya have failed to find the killers of the two militiamen shot dead on November 27. The Republic's MIA sees the main reason of the murder in their service activities.

Today, the Moscow City Court upheld the arrest of Evgenia Khasis, 25, accused on the murder case of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, killed this January. The court session was held closed.

In one of the villages of the Tver Region, located near the place of the accident of the "Neva-Express" train, employees of operative agencies found the house, where, according preliminary data, three or four terrorists who prepared the blow-up of the fast train could hide. This was stated on Monday by a source in the regional law enforcement bodies.

Today, advocate Magomed Gasanov, a proxy of the LLC "Novoe Delo", owner of the weekly of the same name, has filed a claim to the Federal Court of the Sovietskiy District of Makhachkala on defence of the honour, dignity and business reputation. The respondent under the claim is Garun Kurbanov, Minister for National Policy, Information and Foreign Relations of Dagestan.

Today, at about 6:00 a.m. in Makhachkala, in the Shamil Avenue, unidentified persons shelled the car with Abrek Gadzhiev, head of the Magaramkent District of Dagestan. Mr Gadzhiev later died from his wounds in hospital.

The Armenian-Turkish protocols should be ratified within reasonable terms, while protraction of the process by Turkey will result in Armenia's adequate answer under the norms of the international law. This was stated on November 28 by President Serzh Sargsyan, who is also the leader of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, at its congress.

Novorossisk and a number of other cities of Russia have hosted rallies in support of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy who has revealed, in his Internet video appeal to Premier Putin, facts of abuse and corruption in law enforcement bodies of the city.

The character of explosion at the derailing accident of the "Neva-Express" train, which happened last night, on November 27, in the border of the Tver and Novgorod Regions, reminds the blowing up of the same train in August, 2007.

Armenia stands for peaceful settlement of the Karabakh conflict by negotiations, but at the same time it will not admit any encroachment on Nagorno-Karabakh and is ready to react to it in the toughest way possible. This was stated by President Serzh Sargsyan at the 12th congress of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, where he is the chairman.