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The temporary inquiry commission of the Ukrainian Parliament set up to investigate facts of illegal weapons deliveries to Georgia has revealed significant financial violations in arms export of the weapon, Valery Konovalyuk, chairman of the commission, said today in the press conference.

The Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office has revealed violations of the legislation adopted in defence of children's rights.

Presently, the man injured by today's explosion in Adler is in reanimation. His condition is stable, and his life is out of danger. The law enforcement bodies of the Krasnodar Territory are investigating the incident, the "Gazeta.Ru" reports.

The village of Alkhan-Kala, Grozny District of Chechnya, hosted a commemoration party (tezet) of Yunus and Yusup Arsamakov, brothers of the well-known Moscow banker Abubakar Arsamakov; the brothers were kidnapped last February and until recently were regarded as missing. Their relatives cherished hopes that they are alive.

The video material entitled "Kozaev brothers' case. Part 2", filmed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent continues the story of Kozaev brothers, who were detained on August 9 by securities of South-Ossetian President Eduard Kokoity in Dzhava village, South Ossetia.

Lebanon plans to set up contacts with Abkhazia and South Ossetia, although recognition of these republics by the country is not yet clear, Saad Hariri, majority leader in Lebanese parliament, has stated.

On November 6, the European Court for Human Rights passed decisions on three more cases from Chechnya, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the "Legal Initiative for Russia".

The Nalchik City Court has considered a petition lodged by the Investigatory Committee under the Russian Prosecutor's Office for Kabardino-Balkaria on extending the custody of Kerim Malkarov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, and upheld it: Malkarov's custody was extended till December 2.

Alexander Polyakov, sports correspondent of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper, was beaten in the doorway of the apartment block where he lives in Makhachkala in the afternoon on November 9, at about 4 p.m. According to the victim, when he went up the stairs to his apartment, two unknown persons were coming down; they started beating him with no words. Alexander Polyakov received numerous traumas of his head and has been hospitalized; now his life is out of danger.

Suer Belassain, President of the International Federation of Human Rights, asserts that the current situation with defence of human rights in Georgia is extremely complicated. She told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it in her interview on November 10 in Tbilisi after the FIDH regional seminar "National, Regional and International Legal Remedies for Victims of Human Rights Violations".

Restart of operation of "Abu Bekr" Mosque in Baku will depend on the results of the investigation now conducted by law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan after the armed attack on the Mosque. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports that this was stated today at a press conference by Idayat Orudzhev, head of the State Committee for Working with Religious Structures (SCWRS) of Azerbaijan.

People in Chechnya have differently perceived the news that the special battalions "Vostok" (East) and "Zapad" (West) subordinate to the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff (GRU) of the Russian Ministry of Defence will be disbanded. Although many residents treated these subdivisions negatively enough, others believe that the battalions were dissolved to please President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.

The total area of the land plots in Sochi bought out for construction of 2014 Olympic objects can be reduced. A group of Deputies from "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) faction has brought in a bill to the State Duma, under which the state can take, till January 1, 2014, the land plots owned by Sochi citizens into restricted use for construction of Olympic objects.

We, FIDH member and partner organizations express our support to human rights defenders and to civil society representatives working in Georgia, and share their concerns about human rights violations and shortcomings in Georgia.

The battalions "Zapad" (West) and "Vostok" (East) of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Ministry of Defence, deployed in the territory of Chechnya, are transformed into motorized rifle companies.

The world economic crisis has affected the real estate market of Armenia and the sector of raw materials of the country. Prices on copper and molybdenum, extracted and exported by the country, have gone down.

The Ministry of Health of Russia has denied the proposal of Chechen leaders to set up in the republic s special laboratory for genetic examination of unidentified bodies.

Today, North Ossetia parts with the victims of the terror act committed on November 6 in Vladikavkaz. The mourning was announced in the republic.

The First Southern Venture Fair has presented innovations from Rostov-on-Don, Novocherkassk, Taganrog, Volgodonsk, Shakhty, Volgograd, Stavropol, Makhachkala and Elista. They covered the sectors of construction, medicine and medical equipment, telecommunications, information technologies and chemical industry.

Armenia has started its programme of returning internally displaced persons to their permanent residences, where their houses and apartments had been damaged or ruined during the Karabakh conflict in 1992-1994.