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The Russian organizers of the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi have promised to set up special areas for holding protests during the Winter Olympic Games, said Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

The Dagestani media festival was opened on December 10 in Makhachkala under the motto "Read the press in your native language". The event was attended by about 500 people, who discussed the prospects of the national press.

A former head of the administration of one of the settlements of the Naur District of Chechnya was fined by 110,000 roubles on charges of fraud and abuse of office and deprived of the right to take managerial posts for two years.

The attack committed in the city of Chegem by unidentified criminals on the car with employees of the local department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as UFSIN) resulted in killing two persons. One more wounded person was taken to hospital, investigators report.

Today, in the city of Chegem, unidentified persons attacked employees of the local Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as UFSIN). The shelling from automatic firearms killed one of them; two others were taken to hospital, an investigator told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

A march to mark the International Human Rights Day was held today in Yerevan. Its participants have stated widespread violations of human rights in Armenia and demanded to change the country's ruling regime.

The mother of Shamil Ramazanov, who was detained on December 9 in Makhachkala, has filed an application to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asking for help in defending the rights of her son, which were violated by power agents during a search and detention, said Elena Denisenko, the local employee of the HRC.

According to the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), Magomed Khalitov, the leader of the local terrorist grouping, has been killed as a result of the special operation in the Shamil District in Dagestan.

Viviane Reding, a Vice-President of the European Commission and the EU Commissioner for Justice, has refused to go to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, because of the persecution of minorities by Russian authorities. She announced her decision to boycott the Games on her page on the Twitter.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has accepted for consideration eight complaints lodged by Azerbaijani citizens and dealing with violations of their rights during the 2010 parliamentary elections, said Intigam Aliev, the head of the Legal Education Society of Azerbaijan.

The father of the doctor Marat Gunashev, detained in Dagestan on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the head of the Makhachkala UVD (Interior Department) has complained to President Vladimir Putin on the course of the criminal investigation instigated against his son.

Employees of the Border Guard Service of the FSB in the Adler District of Sochi held for 4 hours Miroslav Karas, a Czech television journalist of the "ČT" and his operator, an ecologist Evgeny Vitishko has reported as an eyewitness. He added that the detainees were released only after the intervention of the press service of the city administration.

During the inspection of the Makhachkala-based Children's Club "Amanat", where 23 children are trained, prosecutors revealed numerous violations, said the Dagestani Prosecutor's Office, adding that a motion was directed to the court for suspension of the club.

From January 7 to March 21, 2014, during the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the entry and movement of most motor vehicles in the territory of Sochi will be restricted, the Federal Road Agency (Rosavtodor) has reported. These measures are related to improving of the security regime.

As reported by a civil activist Maria Polyanichko, on December 21, a rally against the harassment of journalists and for the freedom of expression is planned in the city of Rostov-on-Don.

The Sledge Federation of Russia has denied the information about a partial collapse of the roof of the sledge-bobsleigh track in Sochi under the weight of wet snow. A message about the incident appeared on December 9 in one of social networks.

Today, the Presnya Court of Moscow has extended till April 10, 2014, the detention of Orkhan Zeinalov, a native of Azerbaijan, accused of killing Egor Scherbakov, 25, in the Moscow district of Western Biryulyovo.

Today, the court has sentenced Mairbek Umaev and Zelimkhan Karimov, who were found guilty of complicity in the murder of the Chechen poet Ruslan Akhtakhanov, a Pro-Rector of the Modern Humanitarian Academy.

In Makhachkala today, searches are conducted in the homes of those local residents who took part in the November 29 rally in support of the lawyer Murad Musaev, which was held in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan; most of the protesters were detained.

The investigating authorities have completed the investigation initiated against four members of the community "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists". According to investigators, the organization was involved in crimes motivated by ideological and ethnic hatred, in particular, in the murders of the resident of Dagestan Muslim Abdullaev and the lawyer Stanislav Markelov.