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The Kamskoe-Ustye District Court of Tatarstan has sentenced Yuri Tuchin, Captain of Astrakhan dry-cargo ship "Arbat", to a fine amounted to 130,000 roubles for failure to render assistance to people in distress in crash of the motor vessel "Bulgariya".

In the city of Taganrog of the Rostov Region, about 500 representatives of branches of political parties and public movements held a rally against mass falsifications at the elections of deputies to the State Duma. This was reported by the press service of the Rostov Regional Branch of the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia, chaired by Judge Venera Daurova, extended the custody of detention of Issa Khashagulgov, a suspect in the case of the terror act at the central market in Vladikavkaz in September 2010, till March 24, 2012.

In Ingushetia, Idris Abadiev, Chairman of the alternative parliament, was released after detention by power agents from the Malgobek ROVD (District Interior Division).

Today, the Garadag District Court rejected conditional early relief (CER) from custody of the blogger Bakhtiyar Gadjiev. This was decided by Court's Judge Rashad Mustafaev in the office of the head of Colony No. 14, where Bakhtiyar Gadjiev is serving his sentence.

Residents of Ingushetia Ababukar Evloev and Isa Bulguchev were kidnapped from the former's workplace, said Ababukar's brother Izrail Evloev, citing the eyewitnesses of the kidnapping. According to Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia, a criminal case was initiated on the disappearance of the young men; they are searched by the republic's power agencies.

The magistrate judge of the Tver Court of Moscow has released Dmitry Putenikhin, an activist of "The Other Russia", who had splashed water in the face of Public Prosecutor Alexei Smirnov, who had represented the state prosecution at the trial of mass riots in Manege Square.

A meeting of the Russian State Duma Deputy from the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party Ilya Ponomaryov with supporters of Sergey Udaltsov, the arrested coordinator of the "Left-Wing Front", took place in Moscow, in Pushkin Square within the all-Russian action in defence of political prisoners. Pickets on the topic were held also in other cities, in particular, in Sochi and Krasnodar.

The Meschansky District Court of Moscow has rejected the cassation appeal lodged by the Association in Defence of Voters' Rights "Golos" (Vote), said Ramil Akhmetgaliev, a lawyer and analyst of the "Agora" Human Rights Association, who represented the interests of the "Golos".

The bodies of the couple with gunshot wounds were found today in the village of Pervomaiskoye, Khasavyurt District of Dagestan. The murdered man was a folk healer, said the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In December, several regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) have adopted draft budget laws. According to released information, none of the regions has adopted its budget with net surplus. The anticipated budget deficit will make from more than 5.2 billion roubles in the Stavropol Territory up to 66.3 million roubles in the Chechen Republic.

On Monday, December 26, the Committee "Civil Assistance" presented its new project "Protection of rights of residents of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia, serving their sentences in penitentiary institutions or kept under investigation in SIZOs (pre-trial prisons)".

Like in previous years, the autumn call-up in the Chechen Republic completed with medical examination of potential recruits and registration of young men above 18 years old in military records. Recruits from Chechnya were not called up to the Russian Army again.

In Krasnodar, power agencies examine Mikhail Lukashev, an activist of the Other Russia, arrested on December 24 after his participation in the rally "For Fair Elections", for his involvement in extremist activities. According to oppositionists, the examination was caused by the poster with the slogan reading: "Let riot arise".

Within the campaign "Stretch a helping hand", volunteers from Tskhinvali have raised 33,864 roubles for convicted citizens of South Ossetia kept in Georgian prisons.

Based on the decision of the court, the city administration of Sochi has given housing to the Tkachenko family instead of their earlier demolished house, which was located at the passage of the Olympic highway. This was reported by the head of the family Vladimir Tkachenko.

At least six people were killed and one injured over the past week, on December 19-25, 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 public sources.

Yesterday, December, 27, a "Boeing" aircraft of "YUTAir" company with 116 passengers on board landed in "Magas" airport. It was the first regular flight en-route Moscow (Vnukovo) - Ingushetia - Moscow (Vnukovo).

The time regime used in Armenia is out of keeping with its geographical position and time zone, Minister of Economy Tigran Davtyan told the journalists on December, 27. He also promised that Armenia would cancel daylight-saving time regime change in summer and in winter.

Obstacles in the activities of NGOs and the work of human rights activists who bear pressure were discovered in 2011 in Azerbaijan, annual report of International Observatory for Defense of Human Rights Activists runs.