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The Internet-medium "Caucasian Knot" has summed up its contest for the best Twitter message. On December 19-29, 2011, readers voted for the messages selected by the editorial staff. As a result, most votes were cast for the comments sent by Gennady Chernayvsky, Temirzhan Baisiev and Laneya95, who will receive prizes.

On December 29, in Yerevan, in front of the building of the government, an action was held in support of Kajaran villagers. The protesters demanded to annul the decision of the government, under which the lands that belonged to the rural community of Kajaran were transferred to the Zangezur Copper-Molybdenum Combine.

A large-scale poultry development project, which is currently being implemented in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia, next year will open new production facilities, which will allow employing more than 600 local residents, said the director of the "Mikhailovskiy Pedigree Multiplication Farm". The authorities support the project and indicate that there are some other interesting suggestions regarding organization of new productions in the district.

On December 29, the RGVK "Dagestan" TV Channel presented a film-essay made by journalist Dmitry Aselderov "Citizen of One Epoch", dedicated to Garun Kurbanov, the head of the department for information policy of the presidential press service, who was killed this summer,

On December 29, Cherkessk hosted an extraordinary sitting of the Council of Circassian NGOs in Russia in the context of the appeal of the Circassian living Syrian Arab Republic to the Russian Federation asking for help. The participants of the sitting - leaders of the Russian Circassian NGOs and movements - set up a commission on repatriation of Circassians from Syria.

Today, on December 30, Vladislav Makshanov, an activist of the movement "Left-Wing Front", and Sergey Rusakov, a member of the Civil Committee, were detained during the action for release of political prisoners.

Today, the pre-border village of Ergneti saw an exchange of prisoners between South Ossetia and Georgia. In total, 26 persons were transferred; 13 persons on each party.

In Vladikavkaz, the capital of South Ossetia, 27 persons were detained in the course of a protest action against earlier arrests of supporters of Alla Djioeva, a former presidential candidate. Some of the detainees have already been released, said Alla Akhbolova, the head of the press service of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The workers employed for construction of a hospital in Gurjaani held an action of protest demanding wage payment.

On December, 29, several hundred residents of Anapa came out in protection of the public garden named after Avanesov. During the unauthorized action the participants dismantled the building blocks set in the area of the garden.

Zeinal Bagirzade, Head of regional branch of "Civil movement for democracy "Public Chamber" arrested in Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic experiences health problems. The activist's relatives and colleagues consider that he underwent torture. Regional authorities produce no comments on this statement.

Residents of the capital of North Ossetia appealed to the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (PCRF) with a complaint of resumption of harmful emissions into the atmosphere by the plant "Electrozink". The "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) confirmed the facts of pollution of the environment in Vladikavkaz.

The Kamskoe-Ustye District Court of Tatarstan has sentenced Yuri Tuchin, Captain of Astrakhan dry-cargo ship "Arbat", to a fine amounted to 130,000 roubles for failure to render assistance to people in distress in crash of the motor vessel "Bulgariya".

In the city of Taganrog of the Rostov Region, about 500 representatives of branches of political parties and public movements held a rally against mass falsifications at the elections of deputies to the State Duma. This was reported by the press service of the Rostov Regional Branch of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, chaired by Judge Venera Daurova, extended the custody of detention of Issa Khashagulgov, a suspect in the case of the terror act at the central market in Vladikavkaz in September 2010, till March 24, 2012.

In Ingushetia, Idris Abadiev, Chairman of the alternative parliament, was released after detention by power agents from the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division).

Today, the Garadag District Court rejected conditional early relief (CER) from custody of the blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. This was decided by Court's Judge Rashad Mustafaev in the office of the head of Colony No. 14, where Bakhtiyar Gadjiev is serving his sentence.

Residents of Ingushetia Ababukar Evloev and Isa Bulguchev were kidnapped from the former's workplace, said Ababukar's brother Izrail Evloev, citing the eyewitnesses of the kidnapping. According to Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia, a criminal case was initiated on the disappearance of the young men; they are searched by the republic's power agencies.

The magistrate judge of the Tver Court of Moscow has released Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of "The Other Russia", who had splashed water in the face of Public Prosecutor Alexei Smirnov, who had represented the state prosecution at the trial of mass riots in Manege Square.

A meeting of the Russian State Duma Deputy from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party Ilya Ponomaryov with supporters of Sergey Udaltsov, the arrested coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front", took place in Moscow, in Pushkin Square within the all-Russian action in defence of political prisoners. Pickets on the topic were held also in other cities, in particular, in Sochi and Krasnodar.