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On December 15, the Moscow Central House of Journalists held the Journalists' Commemoration Day.

On December 15, the militia detained over 1300 persons and confiscated 16 traumatic pistols, more than 200 knives, hammers and baseball bats, a source from law enforcement bodies of Moscow said today. In total, 37 persons have been attracted to administrative responsibility for various offences.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the complaint lodged by relatives of two persons in Chechnya, who disappeared in 2002 and 2004, and ruled to penalize Russia by 148,000 euros.

On December 10, in the village of Pusyan, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), policemen beat relatives of Sakhavat Aliev, a former candidate for the Parliament of Azerbaijan from the 2nd Sharur Constituency; the relatives receive no medical assistance, human rights activists say. The authorities deny the fact of beating.

The militia of Rostov-on-Don is working in the strengthened regime in order to prevent possible mass disorders. Within the last 24 hours, 177 persons were detained; traumatic pistols were confiscated from many of them.

The reason of mass disorders in Moscow was not in the murder of Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak", but in the absence of the official authorities' response to this crime, said the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, while answering questions of Russian citizens live on air.

When answering the questions of the hotline dialogue with the population, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin treated the crime in the village of Kuschevskaya as a "failure of the whole law enforcement system." In his opinion, not only law enforcers but also the local authorities in general shall be made responsible for the crime revelry in the Kuschevskiy District of the Krasnodar Territory, as well as in other criminalized areas of Russia.

Two sanctioned actions against ethnically motivated crimes have been completed tonight in Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow without any incidents.

The ballistic examination has established that the sleeves and bullets found in the place of the murder of Anas Pshikhachev in Kabardino-Balkaria were fired from the same firearm, which was used in November this year in Nalchik to assassinate an employee of the FSIN (Federal Punishment Enforcement Agency). This was stated by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation IC RF).

Next year a program aimed at struggle against forged medications will be launched in Armenia. Their portion in Armenian market currently makes 5-6%, Gukas Ulikhanyan, Chairman of Armenian Pharmaceutical Association, reported on December, 15.

Last night servicemen of federal forces were fired upon by unidentified persons in Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. One of the servicemen was taken to hospital. In Achkhoy-Martan district, too, operations are in process for search of the persons who in the evening of December, 15, fired upon a militia checkpoint, two officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs were wounded as a result.

On December, 15, a memorial action timed to the Day of Memory of the journalists who perished carrying out their professional duty passed off in front of Press House in Journalists' public garden in the capital of Chechnya. The action with the participation of representatives of republican mass media, intelligentsia, the clergy, youth and students' organizations was arranged by the Ministry of External Relations, National Policy, Press and Information of Chechnya.

The mission to liquidate toxic pesticides in the Nubarashen burial, located in Yerevan outskirt, will be granted to the "Ecotech" Polish company. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told about it at the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of Armania.

Yesterday, on December 14, the authoritative international organization Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) addressed Armenian leaders with a call to release the political prisoners Nikol Pashinyan.

On December 14, an unidentified explosive device stuffed with striking elements was triggered en route of a militia car in Makhachkala. The explosion caused no casualties or victims, said a source from the UVD (Interior Department) of the capital of Dagestan.

Today, on December 15, Dagestan has opened its Congress of Dagestani Nations. It will last for one day and plans to adopt an appeal and a resolution. The event is held in the new Palace of Sports named after Ali Aliev, located between the cities of Kaspiisk and Makhachkala.

Leonid Zelentsov, Rector of Rostov State Building University (RSBU), where the perished Maxim Sychov was a student, has submitted a resignation application. This was announced today by Vasily Golubev, Governor of the Rostov Region.

Death of "Spartak" fan in Moscow and murders of students in Rostov-on-Don and Vladikavkaz again aggravate ethnic conflicts in Russia; Northern Caucasus sees incessant explosions, assaults and special operations, more and more heating the situation in the region; Georgian MPs criticize but adopt the "Freedom Charter" in the second reading, - look these and other events in the review of the week of December 6-12, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The militia detained a group of young people near the metro station "Sennaya Ploschad" in St Petersburg, where disorders were expected in the evening on December 15. Some of them had traumatic pistols and edged weapons on them.

More than 700 persons have been detained in Moscow during the unrest. Many of them had traumatic and edged weapons, truncheons and electric shockers on them, which were confiscated. Several victims are reported. The protesters, who gathered near the Kiev Railway Station, disperse.