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The investigation into the murder of Umar Israilov, ex-guard of Chechen President, was held masterly; and the trial is held in accordance with international standards, said Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a member of the international coalition of human rights organizations, which monitors this trial.

The Russia's Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has ordered, after detection of violations admitted at the inquiry of the massacre in Kuschevskaya, to check the legality of accounting and registration of crimes everywhere across the country, giving special attention to facts of concealing serious crimes, Marina Gridneva, spokesperson of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), said today.

Yesterday, on December 2, Moscow announced the results of the major literary award of the country - the "Russian Booker Prize". The list of six top nominees included the writer from Chechnya German Sadulaev.

The interregional public movement under the motto "All the persons are equal before the law and court" is formed in the Krasnodar Territory; this was reported by its organizers.

Today, on December 3, an explosion was triggered in Kabardino-Balkaria: a self-made explosive device disguised as a log blew up in the Federal Highway Prokhladny-Azau in the Elbrus District, when a truck with militaries of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) was passing by.

The Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory has found no attributes of extremism in the brochure "Situation with Former USSR Citizens in Krasnodar Territory", published by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the Youth Group for Tolerance "ETnIKA", the "Caucasian Knot" was told at the press service of the ICPO.

One should not oppose the secular life style to the religious one, Magomedsalam Magomedov, President of Dagestan, declared during an informal meeting with the journalists on December, 2.

European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg has fined Russia to an unprecedented sum of 1,72 million euros for a loss of 24 residents of Chechnya during bombings in Achkhoy-Martan district in February, 2000. The plaintiffs were 29 residents of Chechnya who had failed to obtain the desired results in the Russian juridical instances.

Sergey Tsapok, accused of committing the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, started telling investigators about the crimes of his gang. While actively cooperating with the investigation, Tsapok stressed that he personally was not involved in the killings that he is talking about.

Dagestan, which is among sad leaders in Southern Russia by the number of HIV-infected patients, has increased the score still more, the local "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Agency on Consumer Supervision) branch reports.

The programme of the Seventh International Film Festival "Woman", held in Yerevan on December 1-5, includes 55 films from 18 countries.

Members of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia and other Armenian scholars have signed a statement calling the authorities to consider a possibility to release Nikol Pashinyan, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak".

On December 1, in Vladikavkaz, the action "Safeguard Your Future", dated to the World AIDS Fighting Day was held.

The Izobilnoe District Court of the Stavropol Territory has sentenced Oleg Dunis, accused of a fraudulent embezzlement of another person's company, which caused a more than 19-million-rouble-worth damage to the victim, to three years of freedom deprivation, the Prosecutor's Office of the Stavropol Territory has reported today.

Tonight in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, unidentified persons shot a judge of the Cherek District Court.

On November 29, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Adygea passed a warning to Zaur Dzeukozhev, an activist of the Adyg public movement "Circassian Congress", about inadmissibility of extremist activities. The Office found Dzeukozhev's alleged extremist expressions while monitoring local media and Internet resources.

The local prosecutor's office has opened a criminal case under the article of "inciting hatred or hostility, and dignity humiliation" against a resident of Dagestan, who, according to the investigation, had promulgated extremist leaflets in the settlement named Artesian.

Nikol Pashinyan, a convicted opposition activist and editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Aikakan Zhamanak", was moved from prison "Kosh" to prison "Artik" because of his numerous malicious violations of prison regulations. This was stated by Arsen Babayan, press secretary of the Criminal Executive Department of the Ministry of Justice of Armenia.

Basir Salakhgereyev, 35, Imam at one of Khasavyurt city mosques, who was killed on November 1, was non-conflict person and had not received any threats. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Idris Zagalov, a resident of Khasavyurt.

Within the next two weeks, the parliamentary inquiry commission, which has investigated the circumstances of the death of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, will publish the final report on its work.