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Oleg Melnikov, a former employee of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), detained on December 7 inUkraine, has been arrested by the Darnitsa District Court of Kiev for the term of 40 days.

In Stavropol, activists of the regional NGO named "All Houses" have organized a flash mob "Neptune Day" in protest against passiveness of managing companies in regard to residents' problems.

Today, 24 years after the Spitak earthquake, about a thousand families living in Spitak, are still in need of housing. In Gyumri, about six thousand families still live in temporary housing facilities.

The Tuapse City Court has obliged Evgeny Vitishko, a member of the "Yabloko" Party and an activist of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus", sentenced to probation in the case about the fence of the "Tkachov's Summer House", to appear – twice a month – at the penal inspection and not to leave the Tuapse District without notifying the police.

Today in Tbilisi street vendors demanded from the authorities to allow them to trade freely until January 15. The police have dispersed the action.

Relatives of the prisoners who were beaten on December 4, when they were brought to colony "Salyn IK-1" in Kalmykia, claim that the victims are still without medical attention. The local Kalmykia's UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service) denies any beating of inmates on December 4 and transfer of those beaten on November 2 to other jails.

A draft “On Amnesty” aimed at reduction of custody terms for women, the underage, persons who committed economic crimes and release of 190 political prisoners was adopted in first reading by the Georgian Parliament.

Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin is going to be always aware of the process of investigation of murder of journalist Kazbek Gekkiev killed in Kabardino-Balkaria. He reported this on December, 7, after a session of Coordination Council of Ombudsmen.

Resident of Khasavyurt district of Dagestan Magomed Sulaev who was earlier detained by members of power ministries reported shadowing which started after he was acknowledged witness for the defense on Anvar Guseiniv’s case.

Chief Public Prosecutor’s office of Georgia issued official wanted notices for four ex-employees of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the country: Data Akhalaya, Soso Topuridze, Geronty Alanya and Oleg Melnikov.

On December, 7, Mayor of Krasnodar Vladimir Evlanov during a citizens’ gathering promised that the greenbelt near Rozhdestvensky park would not be built over.

The fate of the missing resident of Ingushetia Orts Almurziev is still not known, said his mother Raishat Kokurkhoeva. According to her story, the remains found in the vicinity of the village of Ali-Yurt do not belong to her son. This was also confirmed by Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Ingushetia, who also said that Almurziev had been declared wanted.

On December 4, the Repatriates Adaptation Centre in Maikop, the capital of Adygea, was for the first time visited by the mobile unit of the city employment centre. Two specialists held a reception session. They received 28 migrants from Syria, introducing them to the available country's bank of vacancies.

About 25 supporters of the former Prime Minister of Georgia are holding a spontaneous picket outside at the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, demanding to provide an advocate to Vano Merabishvili.

In Chechnya, Internet users are not able to open the websites hosting the film "Innocence of Muslims".

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent with reference to Keti Bekauri, the advocate of Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya, the son of the first president of Georgia, who is accused of attacking an athlete, the defence hopes to reduce the expected imprisonment term for Tsotne from 13 years to 5 years after the charges of espionage and conspiracy have been lifted.

On December, 6, about ten parishioners were detained in one of the mosques of Kaspiysk, Dagestan, a local resident informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

The court took into custody in one of the investigative isolation wards of Moscow ex-militiaman Sergey Khajikurbanov, defendant on the case of murder of journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” Anna Politkovskaya shot down on October, 7, 2006.

A meeting in support of the resolution of the Independent Congress of the peoples of Dagestan planned on December, 7, in Makhachkala failed. The organizers of the action unable to coordinate it with the Ministry of Justice of the republic decided "not to set up” the participants. Officials of the Ministry of Justice of Dagestan state that they did not prohibit the action and received no official notification from the organizers of the meeting.

Mayor’s office of Baku did not authorize a picket in front of the building of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan planned by oppositional civil movement for democracy “Public Chamber” (CMDPC) on December, 10. However, representatives of the opposition declared their intention to hold the protest action in spite of the authorities’ prohibition.