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Aslan Sablirov, a resident of Nalchik, claims that power agents kidnapped and tortured him demanding to confess to possession of ammunition and aiding members of illegal armed formations.

On November 16, staff members of the "Maestro" TV Channel, working in emergency mode for several weeks, held a rally in front of the police building of the Vake-Saburtalo Districts in Tbilisi. They demanded to force Erosi Kitsmarishvili, the founder of the management company "Rustavi Media", out of the building.

Today, on December 16, the latest issue of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft) has published the last article, written by its founder Khadjimurad Kamalov. The article was published already after the death of the author.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution condemning the murder of Rafiq Tagi in Azerbaijan and expressed their concern about the safety of Samir Sadagatoglu.

On December 16, the Baku Court of Appeal, chaired by Judge Vagif Mursagulov, upheld the verdict of the Sabail District Court to four opponents, who were arrested after the rally held in Baku on April 2.

The KGB (Committee for State Security) of South Ossetia has detained Uryzmag Dzutsev, a supporter of the oppositional leader Alla Djioeva on charges of illegal arms possession.

The incident with a throw-in of 92 ballot papers at the city polling station No. 21-20 in Krasnodar on December 4 was a provocation and had no effect on the outcomes of the voting, said Tatiana Shuruba, the chair of the Karasun Territorial Election Commission (TEC).

European Court of Human Rights started studying a lawsuit of four employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia discharged in February, 2008. This was reported by Vage Grigoryan, the diplomats' representative.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, December, 15, some unknown people kidnapped Alexander Misrihanov, General Director of the biggest network of jewellery stores in Dagestan.

Deputy Public prosecutor of Novocherkassk, Rostov region, was detained for suspicion of bribery, regional Public prosecutor's office reported today.

The name of Hajimurad Kamalov, constitutor of "Chernovik" ("Draft") newspaper, shot down in the evening of December, 15, in Makhachkala was included into the "punishment list" on the leaflets which were spread in Makhachkala in September, 2009.

Human rights activist Sergey Basmanov who served administrative arrest in Sochi for insubordination to the police was released.

A complaint signed by ten members of the Mekhk-Kkhel (Board of Elders) was received to the name of the head of the Sharia Court (Kadi) under the Muftiyat of Ingushetia. It demands to bring to justice under the Sharia laws Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, and Musa Evloev, the head of the Republic's Central Election Commission (CEC), who, according to the signers, are guilty of falsification of the election results.

In Dagestan, Abdullah Magomedov, a resident of the town Krasnoarmeisk, who was the observer from the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) at the elections, conducted on December 4, reported that representatives of the local administration put strong pressure upon him. In particular, according to Abdullah Magomedov, after he had reported violations at the elections, they threatened to kill the observer himself and his family members.

A panel of judges announced the results of the contest "The most active, meaningful news commentator of 'Caucasian Knot'". 20 commentators participated in the contest, and five of them became winners.

On December 15, in Rostov-on-Don, resident of the region, discontented with the judges' decision, held a protest rally against court arbitrariness in front of the building of the Regional Court.

Today, supporters of Alla Djioeva, the former presidential candidate and the leader of South Ossetian opposition, have finished their protest action in the centre of Tskhinvali. However, they intend to continue it on December 18.

Sochi bureaucrats should not shy away from addressing citizens' everyday problems under the guise of preparing the Olympics. They have all the resources in place for that, said the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his direct dialogue with Russian citizens in his answer to the question of a Sochi woman.

Today, the Association of Forensic and Pathology Examination of the Ministry of Public Health of Azerbaijan has announced the final conclusion of the examination on the reasons of death of the publicist Rafiq Tagi. However, Tagi's relatives disagree with the conclusion of medical examination.

Today, at the trial on the attack on Nalchik, 12 other defendants went on hunger strike. They called "oppressions at SIZO (pre-trial prison)" as the reason.