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The residents of the Volgograd Region, who suffered during the last year's terror acts, will receive compensations for their lost property. The Russian government has decided to allocate 2,047,000 roubles for the purpose.

At night on December 21, the house of the family of the Chechen field commander Aslambek Vadalov in the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt, Gudermes District of Chechnya, was demolished by power agents with the help of bulldozers, local residents report.

In the course of the voting at the municipal elections in Azerbaijan violations were registered, the "Musavat" Party has stated. The most common violations were massive throw-ins of ballot papers by one voter and multiple voting of same people at different polling stations.

Alexander Valov, the owner of the website "BlogSochi", has filed a complaint against the decision of the magistrate judge, under which he had served five days in jail. The consideration of the complaint is scheduled for December 24.

The advocates of Johar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, who is accused of organizing the terror act at the Boston Marathon run, have petitioned to postpone the start of the trial until September 2015.

This afternoon, Zurab Bisiev, who was wounded in the militants' attack on Grozny, has died at the Moscow MIA hospital. Thus, the number of law enforcers lost in the above attack has reached 15.

The Khasavyurt City Court has dismissed the lawsuit on protection of honour and dignity put forward by the Dagestani MIA Interior Ministry against the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova.

The voting at municipal elections in Azerbaijan is over; the voter turnout was 38.93 percent. No complaints were reported in the process, the Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported.

Magomed Aushev, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, Nazran District, detained by policemen, was tortured and beaten, his brother Murad Aushev reported today.

Today, 34 resident of the Novolak District of Dagestan have gone on hunger strike, demanding to provide them with land shares. The action takes place in the village of Shushiya; there are 14 women among the protesters.

As of December 23, in Chechnya, law enforcers demolished 15 houses of militants' relatives, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported today, and confirmed, in particular, the data of the "Caucasian Knot" about burning down of a militant's family house in the Gudermes District.

All defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 have been found guilty. Five of them received life sentences, and three were released in the courtroom, because their appointed punishment has expired, while they were in custody.

Last night the administration head of the village of Psedakh, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, was robbed in his house. The attack was committed by masked men, who fled from the crime scene in a car, which is on the balance sheet of the village administration.

The advocates of Johar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing the terror act during the Boston Marathon Run, have again petitioned to move the trial from Boston to some other city.

All the rooms and beds at ski resorts of Sochi have been booked for the New Year holidays; the demand is 1.5 times the proposal; therefore, the authorities of the Krasnodar Territory have to restrict the flow of tourists, said the Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak at a meeting of Russian Premier Dmitry Medvedev with his Deputies.

The police failed to ensure safety of participants of the action in Tbilisi in defence of the gold mine Sakdrisi-Kachagiani. Instead, policemen forced the crowd from the roadway, said the organizers.

Georgian NGOs are drafting a lawsuit to the Constitutional Court demanding to recognize one of the provisions of the law that regulates the mechanism of secret investigative activities unconstitutional. The Parliament of Georgia does not rule out that the legislation may be revised in the course of the MIA reform.

The attack of members of the armed underground on Grozny resulted in the death of two civilians, not one, as stated earlier, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has stated today.

Today, Alexei Kolyasnikov, a resident of Sochi and the leader of the religious group named "Christian Community", and his advocate Alexander Popkov have filed a complaint against the court ruling to impose a fine for holding an alleged unsanctioned meeting in a cafe, where they read out the Bible.

The house in the village of Koshkeldy, Gudermes District of Chechnya, belonging to a militant's family and demolished on December 19 was uninhabited, rights defenders from the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to their version, the Shabanov family, who owned the house, left the country more than a year ago.