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The Prosecutor's Office and the regional branch of the Penitentiary Service have stepped up their control over the detention facilities located in the Rostov Region. Local human rights activists mark changes for the better with observance of human rights in local prisons and jails.

As reported by the spokesman of the republic's MIA, tonight unidentified persons opened fire on militiamen in the Lakskiy District of Dagestan; there were no casualties or victims.

Somalia pirates have captured the tanker "MV Hannibal II" under the guise of Panama, which was sailing from Malaysia to Egypt. There are 31 persons on board of the vessel, a native of Georgia and a Russian citizen among them.

As reported by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation, today the court has satisfied the petition of the investigation and sanctioned arrest of the fourth suspect in the murder case of 12 persons committed in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory.

Sirazhuddin (Sergey) Pigarev, a resident of the capital of Dagestan, who worked in one of Makhachkala polyclinics, asserts that he lost his job because of harassment by law enforcers.

Galim Galimov, Mayor of the city named Dagestanskie Ogni has apologized to Magomed Khanmagomedov, a correspondent of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Blueprint), for the incident on November 9, when employees of the city Mayoralty attacked the journalist in the building of the city administration. According to Galimov, he was not aware of what was happening.

Advocates of the convicts for murdering Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev have presented a letter to the court of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) signed by Isa Yamadaev, in which he renounces his claims against all those accused of attacking his brother within all the civil and criminal cases.

In the evening of November, 11, some unidentified persons fired upon the district militia officer's house in the settlement of Sergokala, Sergokala district of Dagestan, no one was injured, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

Pyatimat Khashagulgova, resident of Karabulak, wife of Issa Khashagulgov suspected of terrorism, told a reporter of "Caucasian Knot" that she still could not take her children to school and was also concerned about her relatives' security.

Valery Morozov, head of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Moskonversprom", who stated earlier about corruption schemes used in construction of Olympic objects in Sochi with participation of Kremlin officials, believes that he is under pressure in the form of unjustified claims of tax authorities. The Tax Inspection has moved a bill of 113 million roubles to him.

Seven militiamen were killed; seven more persons, including one militiaman and six occasional passers-by, were wounded in a series of attacks on various objects in Makhachkala. Four attackers also perished; the car, in which they tried to escape, blew up.

On November 10, Ummupazil Omarova, Ombudsperson in Dagestan, visited Murtazali Adukhov, a patient of the trauma ward of the central city hospital Khasavyurt, who, according to his story, was severely beaten on November 8 by militiamen of the Kizilyurt ROVD (District Interior Division).

Vera Kobaliya, Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, met in London with the heads of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and asked for help in saving the Georgian sailors, for more than two months kept by Somalia pirates.

An investigation of a criminal case against a resident of the settlement of Demino accused according to part 1, clause 282 "Fomentation of hatred and animosity and derogation of human dignity" of Criminal code of the Russian Federation has been accomplished in Stavropol. This news came from Olga Naumenko, Aid Head of Stavropol inter-regional investigative department of Prosecutor's committee of inquiry of the Russian Federation in the district, on November, 10.

Yesterday, November, 10, militia personnel searched the flat of Mikhail Piskunov, student of Novosibirsk State University and one of the organizers of an abandoned show of a documentary about murdered journalist Anastasia Baburova.