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On November 17, Captain Alexander Popkov, a valid worker of the military prosecutor's office from Sochi, placed his video appeal in the Internet, in which he confirmed earlier statements of Militia Major from Novorossisk Alexei Dymovskiy.

Ibragim Mankiev, a native of Ingushetia, who was kidnapped in Egypt, was in fact detained by local special agencies as a suspect of links with Wahhabites.

An unidentified person is threatening to apply physical violence to the members of the interim parliamentary commission that was set up for studying the circumstances of the death of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, should the commission goes on with their work. This was stated by Mirian Patarkatsishvili, a member of the political movement "Freedom", at a special press conference held on November 17.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has launched a campaign in support of the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan to imprisonment on charges of hooliganism.

As reported by Intigam Gumbatov, press secretary of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan, in his conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, a great damage to the country's cultural heritage was caused by the occupation of the territory of Azerbaijan.

The son of the head of administration of the city of Buinaksk Magomedshamil Shakhbanov, who was kidnapped on November 17, is now at large. Five suspects of the crime are detained. This was reported by a source in law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

European leaders should use the November 18-19 Stockholm Summit to voice out their concern of deteriorated situation with human rights in Russia and call Moscow to its actual improvement. This was stated by the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) organization, which noted that lately in Russia at least five civil activists were killed, and others faced pressure.

Today, the United Information Centre (UIC) of the law enforcement bodies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reported about prevention of a terror act at the Aushiger Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) located in the Cherek District of the republic.

Residents of an apartment house at the central Baku have stated that they are ready to commit a mass suicide with the aim to prevent demolition of their house.

The funds allocated by the USA for building houses for refugees from the Leningorsk District of South Ossetia, have been spent to build a military base. This was stated by Boris Chochiev, plenipotentiary envoy of President of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement.

The city of Kaspiisk (Dagestan) has held a mourning rally in memory of victims of the terror act, committed in the city on November 16, 1996. On that day a multi-storey apartment house was blown up, where frontier guards and their families lived. In total, 68 persons were lost.

On November 16 in Rostov-on-Don over thirty pensioners-miners held a picket against cancellation of privileges. The former miners of the city of Zverevo were not allowed to hold their protest action at the building of the administration and told that the square was prepared for the New Year fair.

The Court of Dubai has postponed the next hearing on the murder case of Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev, ex-commander of the "Vostok" GRU special battalion, for a month. The delay was explained by the need to summon additional witnesses.

The statement, made by Vagif Sadygov, deputy minister of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan, runs that the comments of the diplomatic missions of Norway and Germany on the cases of young bloggers Gadjizade and Milli convicted in Baku were regarded by the Azerbaijani party as unreasonable and mismatching the level of current relations of these countries with Azerbaijan, and as attempts to interfere in home affairs of Azerbaijan.

Facts of overpricing the antivirus preparations sold in the chemists' network can be reported by residents of North Ossetia by means of hotline telephones installed at the pharmaceutical department of the Ministry of Public Health, territorial department of the Federal Supervision Service in Public Health and Social development and the Republic's Prosecutor's Office.

The former head of the criminal investigation division of the district OVD (Interior Unit) and his subordinate have been sentenced to three years of imprisonment. According to the investigation, in December 2008 the convicts severely beat a man.

According to the data of the international organization named "Transparency International" (TI), last year Armenia saw growth of corruption level in comparison with the last year; and the country now is ranked the 120th-125th among 180 countries of the world by this level, while in 2008, it was ranked the 109th-114th.

Today in Moscow militiamen have detained Dmitri Steshin, a correspondent of the politics division of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda", who investigated the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova. This was reported by a journalist's friend.

Today, the court of Dubai will consider possible release from custody of Makhdi Lorniya, a citizen of Iran and personal horseman of the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, and Maksudzhon Ismatov, a native of Tajikistan, accused of organizing the attempt on Sulim Yamadaev on March 28 this year in the United Arab Emirates. In the opinion of relatives of the ex-commander of the "Vostok" special battalion of the Russian GRU, this decision, can result in suspects' flight to Chechnya, which will mean a factual end of the process.

Today, the session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the case about the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 was cancelled because of absence of advocate Timur Lakunov. Last week, for the same reason out of three scheduled sessions only one was held.