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An alpine trail at the ski resort "Roza Khutor", which will host in February 2011 the European Cup in alpine skiing, has been commissioned in Sochi. Ecologists, in their turn, have blocked today the building works at one of the Olympic objects, stating that rare flora species are liquidated during the construction.

The organizers of the rally in memory of the deceased student Maxim Sychov in Rostov-on-Don apologized to Muslims for some of the slogans, which were heard scanned in the course of the march. They were chanted wither by provocateurs or representatives of the marginalized youth, said Arthur Zykov, acting head of the public movement "Tikhiy Don".

Yesterday, on December 14, accusations were presented to a participant of the mass brawl that burst our in the city centre. According to some detainees, national intolerance was the cause of the incident.

Balkar elders who had been carrying out an open-ended action of protest in Manezh square left it on December, 13, in connection with mass disturbances in Moscow.

Yesterday, December, 14, Memorial Day of lost journalists was held by the Journalists' Union of Dagestan in Makhachkala. Remembrance day of the journalists who perished carrying out their professional duty will be held in the Journalists' House in Nikitsky boulevard in Moscow. Its beginning is expected at 13:00.

Murders of Dagestani journalists are not investigated, because often militiamen are associated with customers of murders, said Ali Kamalov, chairman of the Union of Journalists of Dagestan, at the recent international conference in Moscow "Securing Safe Future of Journalism in Eastern Europe".

Today, the Central House of Journalists in Nikitskiy Boulevard in Moscow will host the awarding ceremony of Andrei Sakharov Prize "For Journalism as a Deed". The nominees are about a hundred journalists from various regions of Russia, including the Caucasus.

On December 10, the Day of Adoption by the United Nations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Moscow opened its International Film Festival on Human Rights "Stalker", in which the film by Vadim Tsalikov "Beslan. Hope" took part. The heroine of this film was awarded with a prize of the festival.

Another building in Tbilisi, compactly populated by refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia will be resettled. This was decided by the Ministry on Refugees' Matters and Accommodation of Georgia. Refugees are ready to radical protests, while the Ministry argued that the building is in private ownership.

International and Russian human rights organizations assert that over the past six months the human rights situation in Northern Caucasus has not improved, and ask the Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to trace fulfilment by Russia of the resolution on Northern Caucasus.

Today, on December 14, Rostov-on-Don has opened an exhibition-contest of social advertisements "Clean Hands". Winners of the contest were announced at the opening.

On Monday, December 13, a conflict between residents of two districts of Dagestan because of pastures turned into a mass brawl with use of firearms and involvement, according to the militia, of over 200 persons. Two participants of the incident were taken to hospital; 20 more were detained.

Yesterday, on December 13, in the evening, unidentified criminals opened fire at a Kizlyar OVD (Interior Division) officer, who died in place from gunshot wounds.

A powerful explosion of household gas in a multi-storey apartment block in Makhachkala, which broke out window units in nearby houses, injured one woman.

In Dagestan, the "Rosaviatsiya" (Russian Federal Aviation Agency) and "Rostransnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Transport Supervision) have completed a joint check of the work of the company "Dagestani Airlines", whose aircraft Tu-154 made an emergency landing at Domodedovo Airport on December 4. No essential drawbacks were found in the work of the airline.

After consideration by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya of the cassation complaint lodged by Svetlana Estemirova, sister of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the case was remitted to the first instance court for removal of the existing procedural deficiencies.

European Commission has decided to allot financial aid to a sum of two million euros to 45 thousand people who have suffered from Chechen confrontation.

An imam of the mosque of the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent district, was shot down and died from the wounding in hospital

Militiamen have released all the four activists of "Ecologic Watch in Northern Caucasus" detained in Krasnodar, the case has been referred to court.

The reply of Public prosecutor's office of Kirov district on Rostov-on-Don the organizers of "The Day of Anger" received on December, 13, runs that militia did not detain the oppositionists before the meeting on September, 12, while representatives of Rostov oppositional movement "Left Front" state that they were not only illegally kept in the militia department but were also threatened and intimidated.