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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.

Today, the European Parliament in Brussels starts the event called "Circassian Day", held for the fifth time already and aimed at discussing the issues of ethno-cultural revival, development and political problems of the Circassian nation and society.

From November 24 on, employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are detecting pharmacies and retail outlets, where non-licensed and counterfeit drugs are sold. Sellers of such drugs will face administrative punishments.

All the terror acts committed in the territory of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have been solved, Sergey Chenchik, Head of the GUVD of the MIA for the NCFD, said at a press conference today.

Addressing today his message to the Russian Federal Assembly, President Dmitri Medvedev stated the need to fight laxity in law enforcement agencies and other bodies of state power. As an example he cited the events in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, where 12 persons were assassinated on November 5.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov will not go to Vienna to the trial on the murder in Austria of his former bodyguard Umar Israilov. This was stated by Andrei Krasnenkov, Kadyrov's advocate. In his opinion, the investigation has no proofs of President's involvement in the murder. However, the human rights activists, engaged in monitoring the litigation, are convinced that Kadyrov shall evidence and point to strong arguments present in case materials.

Today, from 8 in the morning, Balakhani village, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is blocked by units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). This was reported by power structures of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).