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The Georgian tourist area Anaklia will install the monument to victims of the genocide of the Circassian nation, made by Khusen Kochesokov, a sculptor from Kabardino-Balkaria. His project was selected through an international contest.

In the morning on December 3, the trucks, which had been blocked at the "Verkhni Lars" checkpoint, began moving with the help of the tow cars provided by the Georgian party.

Switzerland has presented Georgia with a list of companies, one of which will be selected for monitoring the goods turnover on the Georgian-Russian border within the framework of the WTO Agreement.

Mamuka Glonti, the founder of the "Maestro" TV Company and one of its stakeholders, has announced his resignation as the general producer of the TV channel.

Law enforcers have identified the casualty of the skirmish in the Kizlyar District of Dagestan as a twenty-year-old Shaikhi Sheikhov, the local MIA reports.

On December 2, Krasnodar hosted a picket with a call to local residents to observe cleanliness and maintain healthy environment.

The Venice Commission has given a positive preliminary conclusion on the draft new Electoral Code of Georgia, said Pavle Kublashvili, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Georgian Parliament.

In Krasnodar, Mikhail Astapov, Rector of the Kuban State University (KubSU), has refuted information that on November 30 there were searches and detentions in university hostels.

As a result of a skirmish one assailant was killed. As reported by a source from Dagestani law enforcement bodies, there were no losses among power agents.

On December 1, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Aflatun Gasymov, completed considering the appeal complaint lodged by Neimat Panakhly, the leader of the Party of National Statehood of Azerbaijan (PNSA).

Today, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has decided to pardon the Israeli businessmen Roni Fuchs and Zeev Fraenkel, convicted for bribing a state official, said Manana Mandjgaladze, the spokesperson of the President.

A group of young people has held an action in Baku in protest against increasing the metro fare. The action was organized by the Democratic Youth Organization.

This morning, Soslan Kokoev, the founder of the website "Uasamonga.ru" and a supporter of Djambolat Tedeev, an unregistered South-Ossetian presidential candidate, was arrested, said Elina Marzoeva, a member of Tedeev's election office.

Dagestan remains in the lead in Southern Russia by HIV-infection incidence; during 10 months of 2011, the republic registered 157 new cases, as reported in the course of the events held in the republic on the World AIDS Day, marked on December 1.

The repeated presidential election in South Ossetia will not take place, because Alla Djioeva will not take part in it; and her supporters will not go to vote. This was stated by Ms Djioeva herself.

At the world championship in kickboxing, which has ended in Dublin, Ramazan Razakov, an athlete from Dagestan, brought a gold medal to the stock of the Russia national team.

At the last plenary session before the parliamentary election deputies of the People’s Assembly of the forth convocation of Ingushetia adopted a law in draft on sales of alcohol and alcohol-containing production on Thursdays and Fridays.

During an extraordinary session of Municipal Assembly of Sochi on December, 1, a list of 25 fully formed land parcels with cadastral records for granting to families with many children was adopted.

An action of protest against Federal law On taxi passed off in Novocherkassk, Rostov region. Taxi drivers and personnel of automobile companies took part in it.

On December, 1, a motion of substitution preventive punishment to Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper, for home arrest or release on bail was considered in Nasimi district court. Judge Etibar Gumbatov denied the motion leaving Zeinalov in custody.