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As reported by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights, who is also Mr Dymovskiy's official representative, today, in the legal and legislative aspect of the issue of the official dismissal of Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossisk a real chaos is observed - bosses of law enforcement bodies of different levels in their statements contradicts each other.

Idris Albogachiev, a convicted resident of Ingushetia, who is serving his term in the Stavropol Territory, is exposed to oppression from the administration of the colony. One of the relatives of the prisoner, who preferred to remain anonymous, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The official Baku has rejected the international criticism in relation to conviction in Azerbaijan of two young bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade to imprisonment for hooliganism.

The inmates of the corrective establishments, located in the territory of the Republic of Dagestan, complain that they are forbidden to execute their morning religious rites, which was allowed earlier. The bosses from the Department for Dagestan of the Federal Service of Enforcing Punishments (known as "UFSIN") say that there is no ban, if the rites do not break the internal regulations of the corrective institutions.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in South Ossetia has refused to make any comments on visiting the detained Georgian teenagers in South Ossetia, having referred to confidentiality. This was reported by Maria Tedeeva, press secretary of the ICRC in South Ossetia.

City of Novorossisk has hosted a picket in support of Militia MajorAlexei Dymovskiy. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights.

Thirteen percent of Armenian children under 5 years of age see retardant growth rate, and five percent of all country's children are permanently starving. This was stated by Karine Saribekyan, head of the division for protecting mothers' and children's health at the Ministry of Public Health of Armenia.

Today, deceived interest-holders (people who prepaid their apartments in a new house, but received nothing) of Rostov-on-Don have held a picket, which was not sanctioned by the authorities.

Mussa Mankiev has reported that his brother Ibragim Mankiev, born in 1977, was kidnapped in Egypt.

Another note of protest was delivered via ambassador of the Swiss Confederation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Georgia to the Russian party. The Georgian party's protest was caused by the visit on November 13 to Abkhazia of the Moscow delegation headed by Mayor Yuri Luzhkov.

In the capital of Karachai-Circassia, tenants of hostels complain that they are sick and tired to live in anti-sanitary conditions and demand to improve them at least for invalids.

Behaviour of policemen during rallies shows that they often lack understanding of the legislation. This was stated by Avetik Ishkhanyan, chairman of the Armenian Helsinki Committee, who suggested organizing special legal training courses for policemen.

The first international air flight from the airport of the capital of Chechnya is planned for November 16. The flight will bring pilgrims to Saudi Arabia.

Three law enforcers have suffered today as a result of an explosion of a bombardment missile in the second level of the new building of the GOVD (City Interior Department) of Nazran.

Ara Asoyan, chief infectious doctor of Armenia, has treated the situation related to the start of propagation of A/H1N1 virus in the country as psychosis and called the population not to give in to panic.

November 13 was the deadline for submitting documents to the Central Electoral Committee (CEC) for receiving registration as candidates at municipal elections to be held in Azerbaijan on December 23. Documents have been submitted by more than 35,000 persons; and 28,515 candidates have already been registered.

In the city of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, the court found Asiet Sheudzhen, head mistress of the special closed-type vocational school, indirectly guilty of death of one of her pupils, aged 17. In the course of the works at the construction site, where she sent the pupils, a wall fell down on the teenager.

The today's interrogation of Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", under his criminal case on slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov lasted for four hours.

Today, according to the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan (MGHROA), the number of political prisoners in the country has reached 27. The new entries to the list are bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, sentenced to imprisonment. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it by Saida Godjamanly, head of the Bureau for Observance of Human Rights and Legality.

On November 10, Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov presented documents on new flats to 20 orphans and children, who live without parental care. The help in buying and repairing the flats was rendered by the city administration and local entrepreneurs.