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On November 4, employees of the department of constitutional safety of Georgia arrested high-ranking officials of the Ministry for Protection of Environment and Natural Resources of Georgia.

Today at about midday, participants of the protest action against operation of the "Electrozink" factory, located in the capital of North Ossetia, have gathered near the building of the city Mayoralty. As the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports, some 200-250 persons take part in the action.

The members of the independent public commission, set up this July to investigate the circumstances of the murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, have addressed Russian leaders and heads of international human rights organizations, saying in their statement, in particular, about attempts to use her death for speculations. The statement was dated to the hundred days that expired after her assassination.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia has denied the information disseminated today that the killers of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova were detained.

Today in Makhachkala, having defeated "Metallurg" from Lipetsk 3:0, the football team "Anzhi" from Dagestan won the first place in Russian championship in Division One and next season will be relegated to Premier League. The fans who came to the central square of Makhachkala to celebrate the victory were dispersed by the militia.

Grigol Vashadze, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, wrote an application addressed to the President of Russia about his refusal from Russian citizenship and sent his Russian passport to Moscow.

A woman, citizen of this country, was hospitalized with diagnosis of infection with virus A/H1N1. On November 3, she returned to Baku from the Ivan-Frankovsk District of Ukraine, where the swine flu epidemic is at full swing.

On October 31, power agents captured a woman and a young man and took them away in an unknown direction. By now, nothing is known about their fate.

Citizens of Georgia N. B. Nikoleishvili and D. S. Khubaniya, who are kept in the special detention facility for serving minor punishments in the city of Archangelsk, awaiting their deportation outside Russia, have gone on hunger strike with a demand to address the problem on their deportation and create proper conditions for those who wait their deportation for long.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation has refused to support the initiative of Semyon Bagdasarov, an MP from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" faction, to deprive Grigol Vashadze, Georgian Foreign Minister, of his Russian citizenship.

The participants of the 4th All-Russian Forum of Young Parliamentarians, which was held on October 22-26 in Anapa, have addressed the Russian authorities and the Organizing Committee "Sochi-2014" with an offer to make the image of Sausoruko - the main hero of the Circassian epos "Narts" - the symbol of the 22nd Winter Olympic Games.

In the Volgograd Region, inspectors have finalized the case of a group of racketeers, which was headed by a high-ranking officer of the Federal Security Bureau (FSB). Their victims were local businessmen, who were forced to pay for the right to peacefully run their businesses.

So far, no swine flu has been revealed in Armenia. However, the threat of virus penetration into the country cannot be excluded, as Armenia is surrounded by the countries, where infection cases have been already fixed. This was stated by Ara Asoyan, chief infection physician of Armenia.

On November 2 and 3, Karachai-Circassia held actions dated to the 66th anniversary of deportation of the Karachai nationals. The residents of the republic, who were victims of political repressions in November 1943, have shared their recollections about the mass resettlement of Karachais to Central Asia with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Tonight, a strong hailstorm has damaged orchards in Eastern Georgia, in ten villages of the Kakheti Region.

Some deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation believe that that fact that Grigol Vashadze, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, has Russian citizenship allows him to be engaged in "anti-Russian activities."

As reported by Shota Utiashvili, head of the information-analytical department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, on November 3, in the city of Gali, at a meeting under the mechanism of incident-prevention in the conflict zone, an agreement was reached on unobstructed transportation of patients across the Georgian-Abkhazian border to the hospitals located in the Tbilisi-controlled territory.

It is planned to set up a special commission under the government of the Chechen Republic in charge of supervising the process of demining the territory of the republic. Officials and militaries have come to the conclusion that such body is a must.

Today in Baku, the international journalistic organization "Article 19" has held a presentation of the report on the state of affairs in Azerbaijan in the sphere of the freedom of obtaining information. The report under the figurative title "Time to Reset Code Locks" covers a four-year period (2005-2009). The research studied the issues of receiving answers to requests submitted to state bodies.

Today, President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov has offered Azamat Nalgiev to the parliament as his nominee for the post of national Ombudsman. The candidate will be considered by the MPs within the next few days.