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Khizar Daurbekov, a suspect of complicity in the explosion on September 9 in the marketplace of Vladikavkaz, where several dozens were lost, is still kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Vladikavkaz. His relatives and defender insist on his complete innocence and state gross violations of his rights in the course of investigatory actions.

Elena Slepko, an activist of the Inter-Regional Public Movement "All Persons Are Equal under Law and before Court", has come out today with her solo picket in front of the Administration of the Krasnodar Territory with New Year greetings to local Governor Alexander Tkachov and a demand to release entrepreneur Sergey Lyakh from the Krasnodar SIZO (pre-trial prison). Elena was detained by militiamen, who claimed that her picket was not a solo one.

A draft of major directions of realization of national policy up to 2015 devoted to the use of social advertising for impact upon the young generation has been accepted in Stavropol region. This was announced at a session of Youth Inter-ethnic Council with the participation of Valery Gaevsky, Governor of Stavropol district, on December, 29.

On December, 29, the personnel of law enforcement bodies in the foothill district of Achkhoy-Martan detained a local resident who had been in federal search. The detained is accused of being involved in kidnapping.

A twenty-three-year-old woman who had been considered as missing was detained by militiamen on December, 26, in Gudermes, the second of the largest cities of Chechnya. The detained woman was conveyed to her relatives.

On Wednesday, December, 29, Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, signed a direction of mercy to 92 people.

On December 28, law enforcers of the city of Khasavyurt, Dagestan, detained Ahmednabi Ahmednabiev, a student of the Islamic University, who spread leaflets with a call not to celebrate the New Year. This was reported by the student himself. At the background of preparation for the holiday, the churchmen in Dagestan also note that Muslims should not celebrate the start of the new year, as it is a secular holiday.

Late at night on December 28 veterans of the Afghan War stopped their 9-day-long picket in Makhachkala.

On December 28, in the Akhalgori District of South Ossetia, Russian border guards detained two citizens of Georgia, who happened to be without documents.

The riots and clashes in Manege Square on December 11 were possible partly because for many years the authorities had paid no attention to the nationalism, flourishing in the country. This is the opinion of journalist and writer Viktor Shenderovich, one of the organizers of the rally "Moscow for All!" His criticism was supported by the writer Dmitri Bykov, who suggested that the state media would understate the number of the participants of the rally.

At the background of anti-nationalist actions held in Russia, nationalism-motivated mass brawls continue; head of Russian ICPO did not come out to Kuban residents in Kuschevskaya, but instructed to deal with their appeals; "war for hijabs" continues in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the review of the week of December 20-26, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Tonight it became known about the murder in Nalchik of Aslan Tsipinov, an ethnographer and Doctor of Historical Sciences.

The most frequent issues, on which residents of North Ossetia addressed the Russian President's Reception Office, which was opened in Vladikavkaz a bit more than a month ago, were allocation of housing facilities, material assistance, observance of law and the condition of public order; they also reported their social problems.

Veterans of the wars for the territorial integrity of their country are on the hunger strike for the third day already. They demand improvement of their social conditions.

The mass brawl in Derbent could be caused by a conflict between the followers of the Salafi and Tariqa trends of Islam, said a local resident Magomed Khanmagomedov. So far, the local militia has refused to disclose any details of the incident.

An OMON (special militia) serviceman was detained in the Stavropol Territory; he is suspected of attacking, along with his friends, local Korean nationals. During the attack, they cried out nationalistic slogans. According to eyewitnesses, after the fight the militiaman deliberately knocked down one of the Koreans to death. So far, inspectors do not confirm any ethnic motives of the murder.

2010 in Northern Caucasus has been marked with a loss of over one hundred peaceful residents in armed confrontations. Some of them perished because of actions of members of the top brass. The number of victims can be even more if we take into consideration statements of relatives of the people who died in special operations and skirmishes, they say that their people became accidental victims or were kidnapped.

Several groups of young people from Grozny visited the Russian capital with the aim to support their relatives, friends and Caucasians in general, after mass riots out of national hatred burst out on December 11 in Manege Square in Moscow.

Today, Elista - the capital of the republic - and its districts hosted commemoration actions dated to the 67th anniversary of deportation of the Kalmyk people. On December 27, 1943, a decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet was signed "On Liquidation of the Kalmyk ASSR", and on the following day the operation "Uluses" was launched, which assumed forced resettling of the entire nation to remote localities of the country.

Arsen Abaikhanov, who on July 25 in Karachay-Cherkessia knocked down by his car Bella Ksalova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who later died, has lodged a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court, claiming that "the verdict was unfair and too severe." As reported by the office of the Prikubanskiy District Court, Abaikhanov's cassation will be considered only after the New Year. So far, he is at large.