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According to the annual monitoring of human rights and freedoms in the territory of Ingushetia, conducted by the organization "MASHR", in 2011, the number of murders in the republic in comparison with previous year decreased twofold from 160 murders in 2010 down to 80 in 2011. According to human rights defenders, that fact is partly connected to efforts of the regional authorities.

Today, Genry Kachmazov, the administrator of the website "Uasamonga" and another activist of the North-Ossetian election office of Alla Djioeva, the ex-candidate for the presidency of South Ossetia, was arrested in Vladikavkaz. This was reported by Elina Marzoeva, a staff member of the headquarters.

Gabibula Shakhbanov, a resident of Kaspiisk, detained in Dagestan, is not allowed to meet his second lawyer at the temporary detention facility (IVS), where he is being kept; transfers for him are not accepted, and the detainee, who claimed beatings by power agents, is not allowed to undergo a medical examination. This was reported by Murad Magomedov, the Gabibula Shakhbanov's lawyer.

Representatives of the Chamber of Control and Accounts suspect Nadezhda Gogoleva, Principal of the school No. 74, of excess of power. The inspection of the school revealed a number of violations in financial and economic issues. This was reported by the press service of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in the Soviet District of the city of Astrakhan.

At the railway station "Goryachy Klyuch" (Hot Spring), two men in police uniform tried to get Natalia Kalinovskaya, Chair of the Territorial Public Self-Administration "Psou", off the train. According to Natalia Kalinovskaya, it may be related to her speech on the rally held on December 24 against falsification of the elections to the State Duma.

Laureates of the award "Golden Brush-2011" have been announced in Russia; it is given for most unreasonable budget expenditures. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov became one of the award winners. The reason for awarding was the fact that this spring, the state procurement website placed information on buying expensive cars of foreign brands for the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Andrei Bykov, one of the persons, accused of participation in massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, to 20 years of imprisonment.

The entrepreneur Alovsat Mutallimov from the city of Sheki in northern Azerbaijan, who tried to set himself on fire on December 15 in protest against violation of his rights, continues to experience pressure. This was reported by Irada Javadova, the chair of the NGO "Public Association for Human Rights Education".

The large family of Revenko from Sochi is forced to live in a garage in the cemetery after demolition of their house, which was done to break the ground for building a road junction.

City court of Tbilisi partially granted the lawsuit of the persons injured during dispersal of an oppositional meeting of journalists and obliged the Ministry of Interior Affairs to undo harm to them.

Tonight members of power ministries attempted to stop a car of a sixty-year-old resident of Ingushetia Ruslan Ozdoev near one of the supplementary posts set at the entrance of the town of Karabulak. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic state that the man disobeyed their demand and was unintentionally killed during persecution and firing at the tyres by one of the bullets which supposedly ricocheted from a bumper.

On December, 26, technician from Georgia Yury Kulachkov perished in one of the military units of Azerbaijan. According to the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, he was pulled into a working turbine of an attack aircraft "Su-25".

Soldier of Inner Troops of Azerbaijan Kyanan Namazov was shot down by warrant officer of the military unit Hikmet Azizov. According to preliminary data, the shot was accidental.

On December, 26, Zeinal Bagirzade, Head of regional branch of civil movement for democracy "Public Chamber", was arrested for a term of three months for accusation of forgery of documents in Nakhichevan autonomous republic (NAR). This was the judgment of Nakhichevan city court.

Preliminary agreement on exchange of detainees between Georgia and South Ossetia; statement of Azerbaijani MFA about recognition by Mexican parliament of Khojaly events as genocide, which was refuted by Armenian press; rallies for fair elections in Russia, including in the south of Russia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of December 19-25, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Magomed Abdullaev, the deputy of the Botlikh village assembly, received a letter from the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, stating that in the course of the works in the Botlikh District, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) made a number of mistakes.

In Novorossiysk, the Krasnodar Territory, participants of a picket against violations at the elections to the Russian State Duma decided to publish on the Internet all facts of manipulations at voting and non-compliance with the Law "On elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation".

The organization "Internews-Georgia" has published a report on the study of the tolerance level and use of "hate speech" in the Georgian printed media with regard to ethnic, religious and sexual minorities. According to its summary, Georgian newspapers pay less attention to religious minorities in comparison with attention paid to ethnic and sexual ones.

The Prosecutor's Office of the Timashevsk District of the Krasnodar Territory sent lawsuits to the court to recover arrears to employees of the LLC (Limited Liability Company) "Yug-S" on a hunger strike since December 16.

Today, about 50 activists of the National Independence Party of Azerbaijan held in front of the French Embassy in Baku a protest action against the draft law, criminalizing denial of Armenian genocide.