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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.

All those suspected of having committed mass murder in the stanitsa of Kuschevskaya have been detained. Two more suspects, Viacheslav Ryabtsev under the alias of "Buba" and Vladimir Alekseev under the alias of "Bespredel" ("Outrage") were detained in Berdyansk (Ukraine).

A mass scuffle took place on December, 12, in the town of Izberbash, Dagestan. Two militiamen and a participant of the scuffle got injured as a result, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

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.