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In Krasnodar, Mikhail Astapov, Rector of the Kuban State University (KubSU), has refuted information that on November 30 there were searches and detentions in university hostels.

As a result of a skirmish one assailant was killed. As reported by a source from Dagestani law enforcement bodies, there were no losses among power agents.

On December 1, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA), chaired by Aflatun Gasymov, completed considering the appeal complaint lodged by Neimat Panakhly, the leader of the Party of National Statehood of Azerbaijan (PNSA).

Today, the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has decided to pardon the Israeli businessmen Roni Fuchs and Zeev Fraenkel, convicted for bribing a state official, said Manana Mandjgaladze, the spokesperson of the President.

A group of young people has held an action in Baku in protest against increasing the metro fare. The action was organized by the Democratic Youth Organization.

This morning, Soslan Kokoev, the founder of the website "Uasamonga.ru" and a supporter of Djambolat Tedeev, an unregistered South-Ossetian presidential candidate, was arrested, said Elina Marzoeva, a member of Tedeev's election office.

Dagestan remains in the lead in Southern Russia by HIV-infection incidence; during 10 months of 2011, the republic registered 157 new cases, as reported in the course of the events held in the republic on the World AIDS Day, marked on December 1.

The repeated presidential election in South Ossetia will not take place, because Alla Djioeva will not take part in it; and her supporters will not go to vote. This was stated by Ms Djioeva herself.

At the world championship in kickboxing, which has ended in Dublin, Ramazan Razakov, an athlete from Dagestan, brought a gold medal to the stock of the Russia national team.

At the last plenary session before the parliamentary election deputies of the People’s Assembly of the forth convocation of Ingushetia adopted a law in draft on sales of alcohol and alcohol-containing production on Thursdays and Fridays.

During an extraordinary session of Municipal Assembly of Sochi on December, 1, a list of 25 fully formed land parcels with cadastral records for granting to families with many children was adopted.

An action of protest against Federal law On taxi passed off in Novocherkassk, Rostov region. Taxi drivers and personnel of automobile companies took part in it.

On December, 1, a motion of substitution preventive punishment to Avaz Zeinalov, Editor-in-Chief of “Khural” newspaper, for home arrest or release on bail was considered in Nasimi district court. Judge Etibar Gumbatov denied the motion leaving Zeinalov in custody.

On December, 1, prizes were awarded in Adygeia to active physically challenged people in connection with the International Day of Disabled Persons.

The Rostov Regional Court has sentenced Leon Krivobokov, a resident of the city of Volgodonsk, to 8.5 years of imprisonment in high security colony on case of grenade explosion on beach in summer of 2010.

Today, in the capital of North Ossetia, at a rally near the Cinema "Terek", supporters of Alla Djioeva demanded to recognize her as the President of South Ossetia.

About 200 vehicles with cargoes for Armenia are still on the road leading to the checkpoint "Verkhny Lars" on the border between Russia and Georgia. Armenia and Georgia will establish a joint company to deal with road and transport issues. This was reported by Manuk Vardanyan, Minister of Transport and Communication of Armenia.

Possibilities for peaceful withdrawal from the underground of the militants, who have joined the underground by ignorance, and recent rallies in Makhachkala became the main topics of the public hearings "Peacekeeping practice in North Caucasus: experience, models, methods to improve efficiency" in the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (PCRF).

Eduard Kokoity, current President of South Ossetia, has rejected the Alla Djioeva's demand to recognize her till 6:00 p.m. as President of South Ossetia. General Anatoly Barankevich, ex-Defence Minister of South Ossetia, has cautioned Djioeva's supporters protesting in the square in Tskhinvali against provocations.

Investigators focus on clarifying the motives of today's murder of Nazhmudin Abdulkerimov, the teacher of the Makhachkala Industrial College. This was reported by the Investigatory Committee (IC) of Dagestan.