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Director of the state educational institution "Children's Home of Volgograd" where facts of compulsory psychiatric treatment of inmates were discovered has been suspended from office, Press Service of Volgograd regional administration reports. Alevtina Krapivina herself denies all the accusations saying that the inmates have slandered her.

Department of State Security Service in Krasnodar region is carrying out an examination of the book "Status of Citizens of the Former USSR in the Territory of Krasnodar Region" issued by "Memorial" Human Rights Center and a youth group for tolerance "ETnICA" on signs of fomentation of hatred and animosity (clause 282 of the Criminal code of Russia).

On December, 1, Chechnya celebrated the World day of struggle against AIDS with a great action. It was carried out by activists of youth patriotic club "Ramzan", Informational and publishing center "Put'" and the regional department of Voluntary Association of assistance to the army, military aviation and navy.

On November 29, within the session of the "Government's Hour", the North-Ossetian Parliament addresses the state of road safety. Before that, a commission set up from among MPs, raided the streets of Vladikavkaz and republic's districts and examined the work of drivers' schools, safety of passenger transportation, work of traffic militiamen and drivers' medical examination centres.

Residents of the Dagestani village of Tsibari, where 80 houses out of 95 burnt down, were evacuated to nearby villages - Mamok and Shauri.

After the check conducted by the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) after the resonant massacre in Kuschevskaya village, the head of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kuschevskiy District, Krasnodar Territory, was demoted and one of his deputies was dismissed.

The famous poet and public figure Adallo said in his comment on the annual address of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to the Federal Assembly that he was surprised with its content - the President made no mentioning of Northern Caucasus. In their turn, politicians do not share this opinion, noting that the President drew public attention to all the country's problems.

After the today's incident in the village of Shalushka, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, a criminal case was initiated against local militiamen under the article of excessive self-defence.

On November 30, three unidentified persons broke into a commercial shop, poured gasoline all around and set the premise on fire. Then they shelled the counters and windows. No injured persons were reported.

In the evening on November 30, Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time), one of the eleven still imprisoned opposition activists, was transferred from the prison "Kosh", located not far from Yerevan in the Aragatsotn Region, to the prison "Artik", located in the Shirak Region, in northern Armenia.

The investigatory bodies have indicted Svetlana Ivanova, a former employee of the Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd Region, who, according to investigators, in July 2009 killed by her car a young child Sasha Kolokoltsev. This was announced today by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation.

Mamatkhan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, has visited, on his own initiative, the Investigatory Committee, which holds inquiry of violations admitted by the militia during investigation into the execution of his daughter-in-law - Sapiyat Magomedova, who was in the fourth month of her pregnancy.

As reported by Igor Zhelyabin, head of the press-service of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) for the Krasnodar Territory, the suspect of murdering a woman and assaulting other three persons in Slavyansk-on-Kuban was detained.

As reported by the Investigatory Department (ID) for Kabardino-Balkaria of the Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia, today a former militiaman and his accomplice, who killed a local woman and gained possession of her property, have been sentenced to long prison terms.

Nine families from the category of displaced persons have been evicted from the dormitory of Special vocational school (SVS) No 14 in the village of Elkhotovo, Kirov district of North Osetia. They had been living there since 1991.

After dispersion of pepper gas by an unidentified person in the building of school No 74 of Astrakhan from a gas vessel 13 schoolchildren were taken to the toxicological unit of district Alexandro-Mariinskaya hospital, three injured pupils refused hospitalization.

Zarema Khutiyeva, resident of Nazran, reports that she still knows nothing of the fate of her missing husband Muhamed Aslambekovich Khutiyev born in 1973 who disappeared yet on October, 20. She has submitted a request to State Security Service to render her assistance in establishing her husband's location.

According the preliminary data of the investigation, the cause of the death of the head of the Irgaklin Rural Soviet, Stepnovskiy District, and her brother was poisoning with carbon monoxide, said Ekaterina Danilova, senior assistant to the Head of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia in the Stavropol Territory.

Valery Palkin, former head of the Kuschevskiy District, Krasnodar Territory, cut his veins open and was hospitalized, said the press service of the regional GUVD.

In Georgia, the Batumi City Court will start, presumably on December 14-15, the trial of the 13 citizens of Russia and Georgia detained as members of a spy network set up in the country.