Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on November 21, 2005
* The Interior Ministry of Ingushetia said a primed anti-tank grenade had been discovered and destroyed by combat engineers in the republic's capital of Nazran
* Doctors say Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov, who was injured in a car accident in the Moscow region last week, is recovering quickly
* The Daghestani Interior Ministry said a suspected member of an illegal armed unit had been detained in the republic
* A source in the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus said a former serviceman had attacked an officer on duty with a military unit in Chechnya with a knife and tried to break into a room where weapons were kept, but failed. The serviceman was killed by a sentry whom he tried to attack
* A source in Chechnya's police said unknown assailants had opened fire on Russian Interior Ministry troops, wounding one serviceman
* A source in the Chechen police said two policemen had died and one was wounded while trying to detain a militant in Chechnya
* A suspect detained earlier in the attack on the city of Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria in October showed anti-terror officers the location of two caches of weapons and ammunition
* A militant was killed and another was detained in Daghestan
* Russian First Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Chekalin said parliamentary elections in Chechnya on November 27 would be held without incidents, with 24,000 police and servicemen ensuring security
* The roof of the Ingush government's building in the capital of Ingushetia, Nazran, caught fire due to workers' carelessness. The fire was quickly extinguished
* A demonstration took place in Grozny, with protesters demanding punishment for those guilty of the recent killing of three civilians by servicemen in Chechnya's village of Staraya Sunzha and a mortar fire attack due to a targeting error in the republic's Starye Atagi village
* A Muslim coordination center official said the anti-extremist forum Islam for Peace, to be held December 10 in Chechnya, would cardinally improve the situation in the North Caucasus
* Russia's loss of servicemen in Chechnya is constantly reducing, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry told Deutschland Radio
* Yevgeny Lazebin, the commander of the United Group of Forces in the North Caucasus, said militants might try to frustrate the November 27 parliamentary elections in the republic, but would not succeed
