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About 12,1 thousand dollars were collected in Georgia for rescue of the sailors captured by Somali pirates more than three months ago. One million dollars is needed as a ransom.

"The Day of Anger" organized by the activists of the "Left Front" in Rostov-on-Don was planned for Sunday, December, 12, however the opposition failed to hold the meeting because of a warning of its dispersal from riot squad.

On December 11, in the village of Elbrus, Kabardino-Balkaria, unidentified persons blew up a Lada Priora car, killing the driver, according to law enforcement bodies of the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District).

The traditional Sochi Cup among locomotive invalids attracted about 60 amateur athletes who competed in table tennis, darts and street ball in their wheelchairs.

At the rally of football fans, held in Manege Square in Moscow in memory of Yegor Sviridov, who perished on December 6 in a mass brawl of football fans with residents of Northern Caucasus, several persons were detained.

The Komsomolsk District of Krasnodar hosted a protest action of city residents, members of the garage-building cooperative (GBC) No. 44, claiming massive extortions of bribes by their GBC bosses and inaction of the authorities.

Over three thousand persons gathered today in Kronshtadt Boulevard in the north of Moscow, where a fan of the "Spartak" FC Yegor Sviridov was shot dead in a mass brawl of football fans with residents of Northern Caucasus.

Within the project of open discussion platforms "Peace to Caucasus", which begins its work in Karachay-Cherkessia, the working group headed by the project author Maxim Shevchenko arrived in the republic.

Authorities of South Ossetia have annulled real estate transaction in the Leningor District, concluded under the jurisdiction of Georgia. Tbilisi is stating persecution of ethnic Georgians.

They were found guilty by the republic's Supreme Court of attacking law enforcers and participation in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and received long prison terms.

The official Tbilisi has allowed residents of South Ossetian to freely cross the administrative border. The initiative was announced on December 10 at the meeting of the mechanism to prevent incidents, involving representatives of the Observers' Mission of the Council of Europe (OMCE), OSCE, Georgia, South Ossetia and Russia in the Georgian village of Ergneti.

In the evening on December 10, the stage of the Maikop House of Culture was the venue of the contest "Beauty of Adygea-2010", organized by the "Svet Models", a model agency of Maikop, with support of the Republic's Committee on Youth Matters.

On December 10, Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh signed a decree on appointing elections to local self-government bodies on Saturday, February 12, 2011.

A rally and a march to the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan were held on December 10 by schoolchildren and their parents, who protested against a possible ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs) in schools. Hundreds of people came to the rally.

As reported by the press service of the Dagestani MIA, tonight a STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) inspector was shot dead in the village of Sergokala, Sergokalin District of Dagestan.

The term of preliminary investigation into the case initiated in relation to lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten in June by employees of the Khasavyurt militia department. At the same time, Ms Magomedova asserts that the criminal case opened against the militiamen who had beaten her, is not investigated.

Bottles with Molotov cocktail were thrown into the building for liturgical sermons of Jehovah's Witnesses, located in the city of Labinsk, Krasnodar Territory. The building caught fire; the door and some window frames were knocked out by the blast. Fortunately, there were no human casualties.

The situation in the Investigatory Department of the ICPO in the Astrakhan Region needs attention of President Dmitri Medvedev, believes Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the All-Russian Public Movement (ARPM) "For Human Rights", who was present at the press conference "Astrakhan Kingdom of Lawlessness ", held on December 7 in Moscow. Astrakhan authorities refrain from comments on the presented facts.

Ekaterina Rogoza, an investigator of the Kuschevskiy ROVD (District Interior Division), who had posted her video appeal to the Russian President on the Internet with accusations against high-ranking law enforcement officials, has rejected the information about concealment of her incomes and her unofficial contacts with the family of Sergey Tsapok.

The Human Rights Day was marked on December 10 in many countries of the world. In this context, today, the Ombudsman in Georgia Giorgi Tugushi presented a report on the human rights situation of persons with disabilities. The members of the ad hoc group of the Ombudsman's office made monitoring at eight state institutions for disabled, elderly people and orphans.