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Activists of the party "The Other Russia" ("Drugaya Rossia") were sentenced to ten days of custody on December, 8, in Rostov-on-Don for insubordination to militia. The arrested people themselves consider that they were detained for the period of Prime-Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to the city.

The local school, kindergarten and building of the pension fund became temporary residences for the fire victims of the Dagestan village of Tsibari. The issue of their accommodation is not settled yet.

So far, there is no information about the whereabouts of Israil Torshkhaev (Torshkhoev), a resident of Ingushetia, who disappeared on November 18 after detention by unidentified power agents.

On November 30, a conference was held in the Tabasaran District, where out of representatives of 175 villages 61 delegates were elected to the Congress of Dagestani Nations. However, as reported by Migdat Gadjiev, chairman of the public organization named "Anticorruption Committee of Tabasaran District", not a single activist of his NGO was admitted to the conference. The Public Chamber of Dagestan promises that the NGO will be present at the congress.

The residents of the Astrakhan Region, who held a picket on December 7 in Pushkin Square, wanted to draw the attention of the President of the country and the public to the situation in the region. Irina Butyrina said, in particular, that her minor son was beaten by militiamen.

During the last presidential election Felix Gevorgyan was the head of the election headquarters of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, leader of the opposition and a presidential candidate, in the Yerevan community "Achapnyak"; later he was convicted within the case of dispersal of mass opposition actions on March 1, 2008. Now, he has been early released from the Erebuni Prison.

On Wednesday, December, 8, a deliberative body of the Representative People's Assembly in Georgia held its first session where a decision of preparing large-scale actions of civil disobedience was taken.

Thirteen people got injured in a road accident in Rostov region where a bus collided with a car.

An investigation is in process in Rostov region concerning the militiamen accused of using tortures against a suspect. For the benefit of the investigation concrete information on the case is currently kept in secret.

On December 7, in the outskirts of the village of Korkmaskala, Kumtorkalin District of Dagestan, officers of the criminal investigation division of the Kumtorkalin ROVD (District Interior Division) were detained at the moment of obtaining 200,000 roubles of bribe for releasing of a woman suspected of a crime.

Today, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the Southern Federal District (SFD) has confirmed the fact of illegal detention of citizens of Ukraine at the firm "Artex-Agro", headed by Nadezhda Tsapok - mother of Sergey Tsapok, suspected of organizing the massacre in Kuschevskaya village.

The decision to close the "Georgian Times" was taken today by the managers of the newspaper. The publication is owned by Malkhaz Gulashvili, leader of Georgian Orthodox radicals.

The trade union of the Southern Federal University (SFU) in Rostov-on-Don has sent an open letter to Russian President Dmitri Medvedev with a complaint about low salaries of teachers and a request to address the problem.

The Muftiate of the Stavropol Territory took part in Moscow in the inaugural conference, which today has created a new centralized religious organization of Muslims - the Russian Association of Islamic Accord (All-Russian Muftiate).

Armen Arzumanyan, press secretary of the President of Armenia, has confirmed the fact of assault and battery of Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan against Aram Kandayan, a staff member of the protocol department of President Serzh Sargsyan's administration. According to the latest information, the Mayor has resigned.

Zainudin Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, has appealed to human rights organizations, the prosecutor's office and interior minister asking to restore violated rights of his family members. According to his story, his sons were illegally detained by law enforcement officers, who had also tortured the detainees.

Today, at the working meeting of law enforcement bodies in Vladikavkaz, Ivan Sydoruk, Deputy General Public Prosecutor of Russia, said that the number of terror acts committed this year in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), has increased by 100 percent as compared with the same last year's period.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaints of two women from Rostov-on-Don on torturous detention conditions at the local pre-trial detention facility (known as SIZO) justified and ruled that Russia should pay out compensation to them in the sum of 50,000 euros.

Overload of the center of Yerevan with high-rise buildings can result in seismic risks because an increase of the number of high-rise buildings in the center of the city in case of an intensive earthquake may cause "domino effect". This was reported to the journalists by Alvaro Antonyan, Director of Seismic Service of Armenia.

Gogita Arkania, resident of Gali district detained on accusation of terrorism, has acknowledged his guilt at the same time accusing Russian major Evgeny Borisov of organizing acts of terror in the territory of Georgia. This was reported by representatives of Georgian Ministry of Interior Affairs.