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As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, today the Moscow City Court (MCC) has found Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov guilty in the murder case of the journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya and sentenced him to 11 years in prison. The court has also obliged him to pay three million roubles to the children of the late journalist as compensation of moral harm.

Ruslan Djappuev, a resident of the village of Bylym, insists that his pregnant daughter Indira Djappueva and her father-in-law were inside the private house in the city of Tyrnyauz, where a special operation was conducted.

As reported by Alexander Khloponin, the plenipotentiary envoy of Russian President in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), after a meeting at the Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, "in the near future" two billion roubles will be allocated for elimination of consequences of the flood in Derbent. The flood-affected people say that now, two months after the disaster, the city is still "in a deplorable state."

Today, the Guba District Court has announced the verdict at the trial of a group of eight defendants accused of organizing disorders in the city of Guba. Two defendants were sentenced to real imprisonment, six more were given conditional terms.

A disappearance of the 42-year-old resident of Makhachkala Gadji Akhmedov, a father of five babies, said his wife Patimat Akhmedova. She does not rule out that her husband could have been kidnapped.

The picketers arrived from different regions of Adygea, including students and several Syrian Circassians. According to Sergey Koblev, a member of the "Adyge Khase", since the mass action had not been agreed with the authorities, they held solo pickets.

Trial on the case of colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder on June, 10, 2011, was continued in Moscow city court today. An investigator who participated in search of the defendant’s flat was among the witnesses interrogated in court.

Givi Targamadze’s extradition to Russia is impossible, inquiry concerning him can be carried out only inside the country, Chief Public Prosecutor’s office of Georgia declared. However, according to a representative of the office, Georgia has not yet received the respective request from the Russian party on the issue.

Law enforcement bodies did not earlier search for residents of Dagestan Shikhmirza Labazanov, Magomedali Amirhanov and Magomed Gadjiev reported by their relatives as kidnapped and detained for suspicion of Murder of Sufi sheikh Said Afandi Atsaev (Chirkeisky) but they had operative records as potential accomplices of the gunmen, a source in power ministries of the republic reported.

A resident of Ingushetia accuses of inaction the authorities of the republic who according to her, promised to grant money on treatment of her daughter who suffers from an orphan disease and needs urgent therapy abroad.

Council of Elders of the Balkar people started collecting documents of ethnic Balkars who underwent repression during the period of Stalin’s rule in order to submit a claim of compensation for moral damage to court. As of the moment, 400 persons submitted their documents.

On December, 11, National Assembly of Azerbaijan adopted amendments to the legislation of the country establishing measures of criminal and administrative liability in connection with violations in the activities of political parties.

Chief of the Department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the Russian Federation in Derbent Abdulahad Magomedov beat up district police officer Isabek Ramazanov, the officer’s father Tagir Ramazanov reported.

On December, 11, European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg acknowledged that resident of Grozny Timur Tangiev underwent treatment equated with torture in custody. Russia must pay him 45 thousand euros compensation for moral damage.

Experts of the International Institute of Economy and Peace put Russia in the 9th place out of 158 in the rating “Global index of terrorist threats”. In 2010 Russia occupied the 7th position. The situation in Northern Caucasus was called the main cause of instability in the country. However, upon the calculation by the “Caucasian Knot”, total number of victims of the conflict in the South of Russia has been going down during the last three years.

Today, the Moscow City Court has held a session on the Yuri Budanov's murder case, were two secret witnesses gave their testimonies; they identified the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov as the person shooting at Budanov.

Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party, will not run for presidency at the forthcoming presidential election in Armenia. The decision was made at today's sitting of the Political Council, the press service of the party reports.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the freedom restriction measure of Sarabi Seyunov, a defendant in the case on the attack on Nalchik, will be changed for home arrest, Eva Chanieva, his advocate, said today.

The relatives of the inmates of the Colony "IK-1 Salyn" in Kalmykia have turned to the leader of North Ossetia asking to help in transferring them home for further serving their sentences. According to the relatives, at the colony, natives of North Ossetia are regularly "becoming victims of personnel's illegitimate actions and abuses."

In the course of the 22nd round of Geneva Debates of security in Transcaucasia, held on December 11-12, the South-Ossetian delegation raised the issue of liberation of its citizens from the jails of Georgia.