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The younger son of the first President of Chechnya Deggi Dudaev, accused of involvement in the criminal grouping, engaged in forgery of passports and possession of drugs, has today pled guilty to the court in Kaunas.

Fifteen members of the extremist organization "Al-Takfir wal-Hijra", including natives of Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kalmykia, have been detained in Moscow, the Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported today.

As reported by the operative headquarters of Ingushetia, two suspected militants were killed in an assault on a private house in the village of Plievo. A special agent was wounded.

Public activists of Novosibirsk have asked the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov to control the inquiry into the beating of Christina Kumeda, a student of the Novosibirsk State Medical University (NSMU) by a native of Dagestan Said Kapiev, the movement named "Citizens' Patrol" has reported today.

Gasan Abataev, the leader of the "Caspian" militants' grouping, was preliminarily identified among those killed in a suburban township of Novy Khushet of Makhachkala. He and two others casualties were active members of the "Makhachkala" grouping, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported.

Residents of the city of Grozny have reported a disappearance of a young woman in the Staropromyslovsky District. The police claim that they are doing everything necessary in such situations.

On November 21, members of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) of Volgograd filed their last lawsuits about violations at the September 8 elections. In total, there are 320 such lawsuits pending in Volgograd courts.

The Dagestani investigating authorities are studying the murder of an operative agent of the Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Division), committed at night on November 25 in a city suburb. The murder had to do with the policeman's professional duties, investigators believe.

Four years ago, on November 27, 2009, near the village of Lykoshino, a crashed of the high-speed "Neva-Express" Train en route from Moscow to Saint Petersburg took place, killing 28 people and injuring over 130 others. According to investigators, the crash was a result of a terror act, prepared and committed by ten residents of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, who were later charged and convicted.

The Ethnographic Museum of Hamburg has opened an exhibition dedicated to Circassian nationals. Wulf Koepke, the Director of the Museum has noted that the exhibition has to do with the upcoming Olympics and is not directed against Russia.

The defence intends to challenge the verdict passed today to Sergey Reznik, a blogger and journalist from Rostov-on-Don, who was sentenced to 1.5 years at a general security colony, said his advocate Yuri Kastrubin.

The Krasnodar Territorial Ministry of Physical Culture and Sports has announced the amount of prize money for any local athlete who will win at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. Apart from the promised 4 million roubles from the Russia's federal budget, a local Olympic Champion will receive 2 million roubles from the territorial treasury.

According to the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Dagestan, the madrasa teacher Arslanali Shakhbulatov, who was shelled in the evening on November 25 by unidentified persons, had not received any threats. The MIA regards his religious activities as the main version of the attack.

The Chechen authorities plan to provide free-of-charge public utilities to families of the law enforcers who died in performance of their duties. The rules will take effect from January next year, the Chechnya's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The G8 summit scheduled to be held in summer in Sochi will consider the problem of migration as one of the main agenda items. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, while he was in Italy and met Romano Prodi, ex-Prime Minister of Italy and current special envoy of the UN Secretary General.

In Armenia, organizations-members of the coalition "Combating Violence against Women" demand to adopt a law on domestic violence as a whole package, not dividing it into parts concerning physical, economic and psychological violence.

The Human Rights Council under the Russian President has appealed to the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to conduct the more thorough investigation into the cause of the explosion that occurred in August at military training ground "Ashuluk".

In Sochi, members of public organizations and political parties have declared the illegitimacy of the chairman of the commission on public hearings and the unreasonableness of the very project. Initiators of the public hearings have recognized the arguments reasonable and declared the public hearings invalid.

On November 25, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan interrogated Zaur Gasanov, accused of killing policemen and being a member of illegal armed formation (IAF). The defendant has pleaded not guilty. Besides, he has claimed being tortured.

Advocate Sapiyat Magomedova has appealed to Ramazan Abdulatipov, the leader of Dagestan, asking him to pay attention to the pressure on witnesses in the case of the murder of five persons committed in Kizlyar. Sapiyat Magomedova states that the defence's witnesses, victims and their advocates have to ask for state protection.