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The Orenburg Branch of the Interregional Public Organization "Committee Against Torture" holds a public inquiry into the death of Armen Sargsyan, a local resident, on November 18 in the premises of the operative and investigatory unit of the MIA Department for Orenburg; his father has applied for legal aid to human rights defenders, who do not exclude that he was tortured to death.

Rafig Tagi, writer of political essays, who underwent an assault on November, 19, in Baku does not rule out that the motive for the attempt might have been his publications in which he touched upon religious issues.

Magomed Markhiev, ex-Vice Premier of Ingushetia, Head of republican social insurance fund, was operated on as a result of a robbery assault. His leg was dismembered and he is still in a grave state.

Committee of Inquiry of Kabardino-Balkaria informed that three gunmen were killed during a special operation in Nalchik.

Yesterday, November, 19, a local resident of the settlement of Sarmakovo, Zolsky district of Kabardino-Balkaria, was killed. His fellow villagers associate the man’s murder with his job: he was a diver of a truck delivering spirit to the local wine factory.

Suren Khachatryan, Governor of the Syunik Region of Armenia, was summoned to the Special Investigatory Service and questioned within the criminal case regarding the beating of entrepreneur Silva Ambartsumyan.

Today, in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, law enforcers held a special operation and killed Arthur Amriev, who, according to their data, was an active member of the armed underground in the republic.

This year, Kabardino-Balkaria registered 74 assaults on lives of law enforcers and militaries, Valery Ustov, the head of the Investigatory Department (ID) for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), said on November 17.

Akhmed Osmanov, 53, Imam Assistant in the village of Mutsalaul, was killed by members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), said the Investigatory Committee of Dagestan.

The express train St Petersburg-Moscow, named "Neva-Express", which was twice - in 2007 and 2009 - attacked by terrorists, has set off with an hourly delay because of a false report of a bomb threat.

Nikolai Zhigun, the head of the investigatory division for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian MIA, has announced the completion of the inquiry of the criminal case initiated against the head of the cash-settlement centre of the city of Caucasian Mineral Waters (CMW), Stavropol Territory, who, according to the investigation, had stolen over one million roubles from the population.

The circumstances of the death of Mamuka Kakhishvili, a 19-year-old native of Georgia, who perished at detention by law enforcers, are now cleared out in Samara.

During investigation it emerged that Magomed Suleimanov arrested for suspicion of murder of colonel Yury Budanov may really be Yusup Temirkhanov. After finding out the suspect's real name representatives of the investigation state that the motive for the murder was Temirkhanov's personal revenge for his relative who perished during combat operations in Chechnya.