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The incident with a throw-in of 92 ballot papers at the city polling station No. 21-20 in Krasnodar on December 4 was a provocation and had no effect on the outcomes of the voting, said Tatiana Shuruba, the chair of the Karasun Territorial Election Commission (TEC).

European Court of Human Rights started studying a lawsuit of four employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia discharged in February, 2008. This was reported by Vage Grigoryan, the diplomats' representative.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, December, 15, some unknown people kidnapped Alexander Misrihanov, General Director of the biggest network of jewellery stores in Dagestan.

Deputy Public prosecutor of Novocherkassk, Rostov region, was detained for suspicion of bribery, regional Public prosecutor's office reported today.

The name of Hajimurad Kamalov, constitutor of "Chernovik" ("Draft") newspaper, shot down in the evening of December, 15, in Makhachkala was included into the "punishment list" on the leaflets which were spread in Makhachkala in September, 2009.

Human rights activist Sergey Basmanov who served administrative arrest in Sochi for insubordination to the police was released.

A complaint signed by ten members of the Mekhk-Kkhel (Board of Elders) was received to the name of the head of the Sharia Court (Kadi) under the Muftiyat of Ingushetia. It demands to bring to justice under the Sharia laws Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, and Musa Evloev, the head of the Republic's Central Election Commission (CEC), who, according to the signers, are guilty of falsification of the election results.

In Dagestan, Abdullah Magomedov, a resident of the town Krasnoarmeisk, who was the observer from the CPRF (Communist Party of the Russian Federation) at the elections, conducted on December 4, reported that representatives of the local administration put strong pressure upon him. In particular, according to Abdullah Magomedov, after he had reported violations at the elections, they threatened to kill the observer himself and his family members.

A panel of judges announced the results of the contest "The most active, meaningful news commentator of 'Caucasian Knot'". 20 commentators participated in the contest, and five of them became winners.

On December 15, in Rostov-on-Don, resident of the region, discontented with the judges' decision, held a protest rally against court arbitrariness in front of the building of the Regional Court.

Today, supporters of Alla Djioeva, the former presidential candidate and the leader of South Ossetian opposition, have finished their protest action in the centre of Tskhinvali. However, they intend to continue it on December 18.

Sochi bureaucrats should not shy away from addressing citizens' everyday problems under the guise of preparing the Olympics. They have all the resources in place for that, said the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during his direct dialogue with Russian citizens in his answer to the question of a Sochi woman.

Today, the Association of Forensic and Pathology Examination of the Ministry of Public Health of Azerbaijan has announced the final conclusion of the examination on the reasons of death of the publicist Rafiq Tagi. However, Tagi's relatives disagree with the conclusion of medical examination.

Today, at the trial on the attack on Nalchik, 12 other defendants went on hunger strike. They called "oppressions at SIZO (pre-trial prison)" as the reason.

Residents of the republics of Northern Caucasus should have chances for self-realization in their residences, without migration to federal metropolises. For this purpose, donations to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) will continue, but in reasonable amounts, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said today during his direct TV conversation with Russian people.

The court sentenced Head of Frolovsky district of Volgograd region to a fine of 100 thousand rubles acknowledging that he had forced his subordinates to sexual relationship threatening them with discharge.

On December, 13, representatives of the embassies of Great Britain, France and Belgium and members of the Mission of European Union in Azerbaijan visited human rights activist Vidadi Iskenderov, Head of non-governmental organization "Aid to Protection of Democracy", in colony No 14 of Baku.

According to Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Kabardino-Balkaria, the case of enteric infective episode in Nalchik was a collapse of the chlorinator in the water intake of the town.

An employee of the bailiff service in Chechnya will be brought before the court for inflicting a damage of 2,5 million rubles on the state. This was reported by Public prosecutor's office of the republic. He is accused of abuse of authority and forgery by an official.

In Azerbaijan, the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" (CMDPC) has established a special working group on violation of property rights of citizens. It included experts of civil society in various fields.