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In the evening of December, 6, unidentified people in the settlement of Maiskoye, Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, forced Ahmed Buzurtanov, trainer of “Kaloy” wrestler’s club, into a car and carried him away in an unknown direction, local residents reported.

The Tbilisi City Court has released the citizen of Russia Akhmed Chataev, who was detained in the course of a special operation conducted in Lopota Gorge, under the bale of 5000 laris, as the "Information Centre Kakheti" reports.

Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya, the son of the first president of Georgia, has been released from accusations of espionage in favour of Russia and a plot, aimed at dethroning the legally elected power. This was reported by her lawyer Keti Bekauri.

In the course of arrival on December 4 of a new group to Colony "Salyn IK-1" in Kalmykia, about 20 prisoners were beaten; their relatives report. The colony itself and the republic's UFSIN (local Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service) deny any information about beating the inmates.

Five former and current employees of the Correction Colony No. 10 located in the Rostov Region, suspected of beating an inmate, have seen charges of abusing their service duties, as reported by the Investigatory Department for the Rostov Region of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation (ICRF).

In Azerbaijan, prisoners often become victims of fabricated charges, illegal court judgements and poor treatment by prison administrations. This was stated on December 6 by the participants of the public hearings, organized by the "Public Alliance– Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners". The result of the hearing was the idea to coordinate the efforts of all public committees acting in defence detainees' and convicts' rights.

Today, the Dzerzhinsk City Court of the Nizhni Novgorod Region has started considering a civil case on the claim lodged by the Public Prosecutor of Nizhni Novgorod on recognition of the monograph "International Tribunal for Chechnya" to be extremist, said the press service of the court.

Eyewitness of the crime Maria Minakova described ex-colonel Yuri Busanov’s murder as a dark-haired tall man of an average build in Moscow city court today. Anatoly Zatserenko, another witness of the murder, recognized defendant Yusup Temerkhanov in court.

Journalists of the TV and radio company in Kabardino-Balkaria where Kazbek Gekkiev killed in Nalchik had worked earlier received threats from gunmen. Several days before Gekkiev’s murder gunmen in Dagestan also spoke of “execution lists” for journalists.

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili pardoned 251 convicts, Chairperson of the Committee for clemency with the President Elena Tevdoradze told the journalists today.

On November, 20, the Magistrate of Urup district of Karachay-Cherkessia fined local community of “Jehovah's Witnesses” in the settlement of Kurdjinovo to 50 thousand rubles acknowledging them guilty of mass distribution and storage of printed matted included into the federal list of extremist materials.

In Azerbaijan, the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber"(CMDPC) has supported – after public hearing on December 4 on 2013 presidential election – the memorandum on electoral reform. However, some of the debaters expressed doubt on the possibility to change the situation in the country through elections and spoke in favour of protest actions with the aim to force the authorities to start democratic reforms.

On December 4, the Voroshilov District Court of Volgograd considered a petition of the prosecutor's office asking to treat the appeal of Vladimir Kvachkov, a retired colonel of the so-called GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who is now kept at the Lefortovo Prison of the FSB under the charge of a putsch preparation, as an extremist material. The court dismissed the above petition of the prosecutor's office; however, the latter intends to challenge the ruling.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the cassation lodged by the prosecutor's office against the ruling of the Lefortovo District Court to initiate a criminal case against the official who stormed the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre during the terror act. Now, the victims in the terror act case intend to challenge the MCC's decision at the supervisory instance.

In Moscow, at the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, the court has dismissed the petition lodged by advocates of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov, who asked to add the photos made from the video, which had allegedly fixed the moment of investigatory actions conducted in the place of the crime, to the case files.

Many victims of the flooding in Krymsk have not yet received new housing. This is stated in the today's report of the commission of the Public Chamber (PC) of the Russian Federation for social policy, labour relations and citizens' living standards.

So far, there is no information about setting up a joint Ossetian-Ingush post on the Chermen Circle, said Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Ingushetia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia also does not confirm that the post near the village of Chermen can become a joint one, noting that regiments of the Russia's MIA, sent from different regions of the country are on duty there. In their turn, bloggers give varying estimates as to the importance of this checkpoint.

Today CEC of Armenia promulgated the results of special parliamentary election held on December, 2, in Armenia according to which upon the totals of voting representatives of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia Robert Sarkisyan and Arman Saakyan won the election.

During today’s session the Parliament of Georgia adopted a resolution of acknowledging 190 citizens serving penalty political prisoners and 25 more political refugees.

In the evening of December, 5, an armed assault at broadcaster of STRC of KBR Kazbek Gekkiev took place, he died as a result.