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The Investigatory Committee has initiated prosecution of the inspectors, who had decided to release the detainees suspected of the mass brawl, in which Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, was shot dead.

The members of the antiterrorist commission of Adygea have stated that the republic's capital will see no organized mass festivities on the New Year night. Residents of the city reacted differently to the decision.

The law enforcement bodies of Georgia are now collecting evidences on abduction of Amiko Gulordava, a resident of Chkadua village, Zugdidi District.

Soon, psychologists and priests, having special training for working with prisoners, will appear in prisons and colonies of the Rostov Region. As stated today by Major-General of Internal Troops Sergey Izmalkov, head of the Rostov Department of the Chief Federal Penitentiary Service (known as "GUFSIN"), the decision was caused by suicides in prisons.

Today, December, 20, one more of the people injured in a road incident in Kalmykia died in hospital. So the number of victims of the collision between a regular bus and "Gazel" truck increased to six persons.

Local residents found a shot down militiaman's body in the forest of Kumtorkale district, near the settlement of Sernoe. On their own initiative they reported the accident to law enforcement bodies, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs informed.

During public prosecutor's inspection in the town of Argun (Chechnya) facts of illegal issue of 24 birth certificates by the registry office have been discovered. A maternity nurse of the municipal hospital has been acknowledged guilty of this swindle. 20 criminal proceedings were started on the fact at once.

Today, in the course of unauthorized actions, about 500 persons were detained for various offences, committed in the Russian capital. It was reported by Viktor Biryukov, Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department).

Today in the afternoon, in the forest near the city of Baksan in a blindage (dugout), seven bodies with gunshot wounds were found. The casualties are hunters from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the Stavropol Territory. Another two of them managed to escape from the hands of criminals.

Today, advocate Larisa Dorogova held a solo picket in Maria Square in Nalchik in protest against the mass detention of Caucasian young people during riots in Moscow.

Today, the settlement of Nardaran, located 30 km off to the north-east of Baku, hosted already the third within the last nine days Azerbaijani protest action against the ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs) in schools.

Today, most of the detentions during the unsanctioned public action in memory of Yegor Sviridov, assassinated Moscow Spartak fan, were unjustified. This was stated by protesters, while militiamen stress that this was the way to prevent riots.

They tried to hold an unsanctioned action under nationalist slogans. As reported by Alexander Kravchenko, head of the Regional GUVD, a group of young persons formed a column in the centre of the city: "Youngsters in masks were chanting nationalist slogans and tried to provoke unrest. The militia managed to stop their actions."

Moscow militiamen have detained about ten natives of the Caucasus and confiscated traumatic weapons and prohibited items from them.

It is planned to accommodate the homeless citizens of the burnt-down Dagestani village of Tsibari in the cities of Kaspiisk, Kizilyurt, Buinaksk and Kizlyar. The authorities plan to completely solve the problem of providing housing to fire victims by April 2011.

Students-activists of North Ossetia are troubled of the situation in Moscow and promulgated an appeal today, expressing strong condemnation of the recent youth's extremist actions.

In the opinion of Giga Bokeriya, head of the Georgian delegation, the 14th round of Geneva talks was actually fruitless.

The construction of the railway section across the territory, where red-book plants are growing, in Sochi, will resume after reception of results of an additional examination of the territory.

Anas Pshikhachev, Mufti of Kabardino-Balkaria, who perished from hands of assassins, had repeatedly raised his voice against religious extremism. Well before the events of October 13, 2005, in Nalchik, when militants attacked the power objects of the city, the Mufti warned from the pages of local newspapers that "Wahhabism can bring great harm to the republic." At the same time, Anas Pshikhachev has repeatedly and openly opposed illegal actions of law enforcement officials against Muslims.

Corruption and money laundering were the main reasons for detention of Papuna Khachidze, director of the Forest Agency of the Ministry of Ecology of Georgia, and Georgi Bagaturiya, head of the GIS Service of the Forest Agency. This was announced by David Sakvarelidze, General Public Prosecutor of Tbilisi.