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The number of deputies of the Parliament in Georgia will not be increased from 150 to 190 persons. This decision was taken during negotiations between representatives of the ruling party “United National Movement” and five oppositional parties.

On December, 19, Alliance for development of municipalities made public its suggestions on specifying the status of the city of Baku. In accordance with the demands and recommendations of the Council of Europe and Congress of local and regional self-government of CE, the Alliance suggests adoption of a law “On the Status of Baku”.

Department of Federal Security Service in Karachay-Cherkessia reported preliminary results of identification of those killed in a special operation on December, 19. Group leader of gunmen Islam Uzdenov is supposedly among those killed, FSS reports.

The participants of the hearings in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation “Land question in the Caucasus: from solving conflicts to preventing them” which passed off on December, 19, declared that local officials often refused to settle land dispute in the regions of Northern Caucasus.

Tonight in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), in the course of a special operation three persons, earlier involved, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), in attacking traffic policemen in the township of Mirny, Stavropol Territory, were killed.

The travelling panel of judges of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has sentenced the judge of the Stavropol Territorial Court on charges of fraud and a fatal road accident to 2 years of imprisonment and a fine, but relieved him from criminal liability for lapse of limitation period.

The Dagestani leader Magomedsalam Magomedov has offered to take the murder of Khadjimurad Kamalov under public control and form a parliamentary-public commission with participation of the members of the Public Chamber of Dagestan and involvement of media workers and journalists of the "Chernovik" weekly.

The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency ("Rosaviatsiya") has annulled the certificate of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Dagestani Airlines".

On December 19, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg found the Georgia's lawsuit against Russia, dealing with violation of a number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), committed during the August 2008 conflict and thereafter, eligible.

As reported by local residents and ecologists, in the area of the city of Adler, in the "Chaisovkhoz" (Tea State Farm), a spillage of petroleum products took place.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), at the trial dealing with the attack on Nalchik, today the court continued questioning victims and witnesses of the episode "PPS (Patrol and Post Service) regiment".

The European Union has transferred 26.2 million euros to the state budget of Georgia. The money will go to support forced displaced persons and development of vocational training.

In Baku, the house, where the flat of Tural Abbasly, the head of the youth organization of the "Musavat" Party (now imprisoned), was located, has been demolished. Besides, his mother – Bashkhanym Abbasova, a member of the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) – was detained and taken to the 21st station of the Nasimi District Police Department.

Today in Elista, nine families have received certificates on the right to social payments for purchase or construction of housing. The documents have been issued as part of the city programme "Affordable housing for young families", in effect from 2007 through 2012.

At least 18 persons were killed and three more wounded during the week of December 12-18 in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

An action of protest “Give our votes back!” passed off in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar region, on December, 18. The participants of the meeting came out in opposition against mass forgery at the election of State Duma of the Russian Federation. 45 people all in all gathered in the square. Many of them sealed their mouths with leaflets “My vote is stolen”.

The cable cars of Elbrus area (Kabardino-Balkaria) are completely ready to receive tourists. This was reported by Head of Administration of Elbrus district Aslan Malkarov.

On Sunday, December, 18, a meeting against forgery and election fraud was held in Stavropol. According to official data, about 300 local residents took part in it.

Approval by the State Council – Khase of Adygea – of Aslan Tkhakushinov as the republic's leader; Geneva discussions on security in Transcaucasia; resonant killing in Dagestan of journalist Khadjimurad Kamalov; fire at chemical plant in Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Territory, which was extinguished only two days later, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of December 12-18, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, a large charity action in memory of Khadjimurad Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" weekly, who was assassinated on December 15, was organized in Makhachkala: food help was rendered to needy and poor families.