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On December 8, at the court session, where the case of the former employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, accused of torturing detainees and committing other crimes, is considered, interrogation protocols of witnesses and victims were announced.

The Baku police have started an inquiry on the application of journalists of the "Khural" newspaper about the threats coming to them from unknown persons. Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper remains in custody on charges of bribe-taking.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the Russian Federation is actively disseminating the experience of fighting militants' supporters in Chechnya, as the most efficient, among the power agents in all other regions of Northern Caucasus, Artyom Melnikov, the head of the GPO Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), said today.

Without a damage to the environment of Abkhazia delivery of building materials for construction of Olympic objects is possible only from the area of the Kodor river (Ochamchira district), President of Abkhazia Alexander Ankvab declared promising to disallow industrial delivery of inert materials from other rivers.

On December, 8, Magistrate's court of Budennovsk, Stavropol region, acknowledged Deputy Head doctor for security in the local hospital guilty of beating up a journalist who was shooting an episode of rape of a child in the hospital.

On December, 6, Sergey Babenko, observer from KPRF at the past parliamentary election, was found dead in a private house in the settlement of Shkolnoe, Belorechensky district of Krasnodar region. Deputies of State Duma demanded a thorough investigation of the circumstances of his death.

A complex social center rendering aid to homeless persons in Rostov-on-Don (CSC) has organized courses of computer literacy for maladjusted citizens living in the center.

In Sochi, a police officer was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment for beating a detainee.

Journalists of the Azerbaijani oppositional newspaper "Khural" reported on threats coming to their address from unidentified persons.

Intigam Aliev, the well-known Azerbaijani human rights defender and lawyer, the head of the Society of Legal Education, claims that on December 7 he had been detained at the Istanbul airport and subjected to pressure and violence by Turkish policemen. According to Intigam Aliev, he was released and deported to Baku only after intermediation of international human rights organizations.

The website of the Association "Golos" (Vote), which observed the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and which was attacked by hackers on the day of the parliamentary elections, was fully re-opened.

On December 7, the city of Cannes hosted the annual awards ceremony of the American Academy of Tourism and Services. Georgia was represented by Adzharia, which won in three nominations at once.

The information that one of the units of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is quartered in Moscow is absolute disinformation and falseness. This was reported by the republic's law enforcement agencies.

On December 7, in the capital of Dagestan, unidentified armed men kidnapped Rashid Shuaibov, a resident of Makhachkala, and his whereabouts is still unknown. This was reported by his sister Subigat Gasanova, a resident of Makhachkala.

On December 8, Soslan Gabuev, a staff member of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of South Ossetia, got a knife wound during an opposition rally in the city of Tskhinvali. This was reported by Uruzmag Margiev, the deputy head of the city GOVD (Chief Interior Division).

Starting from December 6, in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, 170 persons, including 68 children, were hospitalized with a diagnosis of "acute gastroenterocolitis", "food toxic infection". The infection source is still unidentified: the samples of water showed its compliance with the standard.

In Moscow, Triumphal Square hosted an unsanctioned rally of people who wanted to express their discontent with the results of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the Sixth Convocation. According to the preliminary information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), about 30 persons were detained during the rally; the opposition reports that policemen detained 70 persons.

On December 4, unidentified persons kidnapped Magomed Mutalibov, born in 1985, a resident of the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of Dagestan. According to his brother Nazim Mutalibov, power agents are involved in the kidnapping.

At night on December 6, the doors of two rooms of the city office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), located on the ground floor of the five-storey apartment building at 13 Gorky Lane, were broken. Copies of protocols of the Sochi polling stations at the December 4 State Duma elections were stolen from the office.