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Advocate Genry Reznik, who is representing the interests of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", finds it senseless to appeal against the decision of the Moscow GUVD (City Interior Department) to initiate a criminal case against his client on slander under the claim of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

In the last 20 years, the Russian-speaking population of Dagestan dropped by more than a third. This fact was announced at the session of the governmental commission on the problems of the Russian-speaking population held in Makhachkala.

If in the days of the USSR thousands of Karachais had not been deported, now the population of this nation in Russia would have made some 400-450 thousand persons, that is, twice as today. This was stated by Professor Murat Karaketov, Doctor of History.

From April till end of October, almost 150 persons were liquidated in Northern Caucasus, who were treated by power agents as militants. The figure was made public by the Minister of Internal Affairs of Chechnya at the sitting on November 2 in Grozny with participation of President Ramzan Kadyrov and bosses of power agencies.

Officials from the Sverdlovsk Region, where resettlement is prepares, report that serious problems may arise with accommodation of Ingush migrants in the Urals Mountains, since practically nothing is ready.

As reported by Sergey Shamba, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia, citizens of the republic can use their Soviet passports "until further notice" of the Russian government.

Because of downpours incessant in Georgia for two weeks already, thousands of hectares of farmland are under water. As a result of floods and snowfalls a number of regions of the country are cut off from the outer world; the calamity destroys houses, and several persons were registered as missing.

The Coordination Centre of Moslems of Northern Caucasus has called to scale up the struggle against crime in Dagestan in the context of the murder of Tinamagomed Ramazanov, Imam of the mosque of Bavtugai village.

In Georgia, activists of oppositional movements and NGOs get ready to mark the second anniversary of dispersal of the protest action of the opposition in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007. A new action and protest march will be held in central Tbilisi, as Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, leader of the "Movements of November 7", said to the press conference.

Today, relatives of residents of Kabardino-Balkaria Timur Begidov from Kenzhe village, Ibragim Shogenov and Anzor Nagoev from Dugulubgei village, who on October 2 left for Ufa in a cold storage truck with fruits aiming to sell them there and disappeared, rallied in Nalchik in the square near the House of Government.

In Azerbaijan, the health condition of Mushvig Guseinov, convicted journalist from the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, who was placed two weeks ago in a specialized medical establishment for tuberculosis (TB) patients of the Penitentiary Service, has become still worse. This was stated by his brother Sarvar Guseinov.

On November 2, Moscow hosted a roundtable dedicated to role of Russia in settling the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Armenian, Azerbaijani, Russian and European experts took part in the event - ten analysts in total.

The health condition of Tauzela Dzeitova, the main witness of Maksharip Aushev's murder, who received wounds, when Aushev's car was shelled in Nalchik, remains grave. This was stated by Shamil Kudaev, deputy chief physician of the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Nalchik. The woman is still in resuscitation ward.

As stated by Georgiy Kabisov, Chairman of the State Committee for Information, Post and Mass Communications of South Ossetia, the broadcasting of Radio Liberty in the territory of the Republic of South Ossetia is illegal and a sort of an information provocation.

A year after the start of his presidency, the head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov is still adhering to rather lenient punishments to his corrupt officials. However, according to his version, the courts are all the time trying to acquit those who should be really punished.

In October, over 20 cars burnt down in Volgograd. Militiamen believe that half of the cases were deliberate arsons. In this way the companies, which claim debts from their borrowers, punish them, the militia think.

Relatives of Isa Yamadaev, who got on November 1 in a serious road accident in a Moscow suburb, do not exclude that it could be an attempt on him. In their opinion, only his armoured car saved his life.

Zagra Kazimagomedova, wife of Murad Salikhov, 24, who was kidnapped in the capital of Dagestan on October 29, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her husband was identified among the bodies in the Makhachkala morgue.

In North Ossetia, a group named "Electrozink. What do we breathe in?" created in the social Internet-based network "Odnoklassniki.Ru" is not going to stop its activities and continues demanding to close the "Electrozink" factory, despite replacement of the enterprise bosses.

On November 1, in the Norwegian city of Bergen, Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Malakhat Nasibova was decorated with the prestigious Rafto International Award in the field of human rights for 2009.