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On Monday, December 13, a conflict between residents of two districts of Dagestan because of pastures turned into a mass brawl with use of firearms and involvement, according to the militia, of over 200 persons. Two participants of the incident were taken to hospital; 20 more were detained.

Yesterday, on December 13, in the evening, unidentified criminals opened fire at a Kizlyar OVD (Interior Division) officer, who died in place from gunshot wounds.

A powerful explosion of household gas in a multi-storey apartment block in Makhachkala, which broke out window units in nearby houses, injured one woman.

In Dagestan, the "Rosaviatsiya" (Russian Federal Aviation Agency) and "Rostransnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency for Transport Supervision) have completed a joint check of the work of the company "Dagestani Airlines", whose aircraft Tu-154 made an emergency landing at Domodedovo Airport on December 4. No essential drawbacks were found in the work of the airline.

After consideration by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya of the cassation complaint lodged by Svetlana Estemirova, sister of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the case was remitted to the first instance court for removal of the existing procedural deficiencies.

European Commission has decided to allot financial aid to a sum of two million euros to 45 thousand people who have suffered from Chechen confrontation.

An imam of the mosque of the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent district, was shot down and died from the wounding in hospital

Militiamen have released all the four activists of "Ecologic Watch in Northern Caucasus" detained in Krasnodar, the case has been referred to court.

The reply of Public prosecutor's office of Kirov district on Rostov-on-Don the organizers of "The Day of Anger" received on December, 13, runs that militia did not detain the oppositionists before the meeting on September, 12, while representatives of Rostov oppositional movement "Left Front" state that they were not only illegally kept in the militia department but were also threatened and intimidated.

Today in Baku, at the factory named "Radiogurashdyrma" and belonging to the Ministry of Defence Industry of Azerbaijan, an explosion took place. One female worker was killed; another one was taken to hospital.

The second man, wounded when a car was shelled in central Krasnodar, has died in a hospital, without regaining consciousness.

One person was wounded during a shootout of unidentified persons with the militia in central Makhachkala; two persons were detained, a source from city's law enforcement bodies said.

Sergey Dzyuba, Deputy of the Kuschevskiy District Assembly, Krasnodar Territory, and Alexander Popov and Tatiana Alekseenko, residents of Krasnodar, are suspected of embezzling 107 million roubles from the OJSC "Rosselkhozbank".

Today, on December 13, the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Arthur Arsibiev, 2, a native of Dagestan, an alleged participant of the mass brawl, where Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak", was killed.

Relatives and friends of Aslan Cherkesov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, suspected of murdering Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak" in Moscow, consider what had happened to be a tragic accident, which was caused by a fatal coincidence.

The Investigatory Committee (IC) for North Ossetia has established four more suspects, who took part in the brawl between students of the North-Caucasian State Steel Institute, as a result of which Kuanch Guliev, a student, died in hospital from received injuries.

As reported today by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Russian Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), the special division on kidnappings of the ICPO's Department for the Chechen Republic is running over 120 criminal cases.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Ruslan Oligov, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of kidnapping two persons, to 10 years of imprisonment. By accumulation of charges, he will serve his term of 23 years.

The employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Khebda village, Shamil District of Dagestan, - Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov, Shamil Magomedov and Aliaskhab Nuruchinov, - who on July 20, 2010, beat Makhmoud Akhmedov, 14, have been charged under Part 2, Article 286 (abuse of official powers), of the Russian Criminal Code.

On December 12, Zaur Alibekov, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who disappeared on December 8, was found dead. As reported by his wife Gulnara Alibekova, her husband's body had numerous traces of torture and gunshot wounds.