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On December 28, in the Akhalgori District of South Ossetia, Russian border guards detained two citizens of Georgia, who happened to be without documents.

The riots and clashes in Manege Square on December 11 were possible partly because for many years the authorities had paid no attention to the nationalism, flourishing in the country. This is the opinion of journalist and writer Viktor Shenderovich, one of the organizers of the rally "Moscow for All!" His criticism was supported by the writer Dmitri Bykov, who suggested that the state media would understate the number of the participants of the rally.

Tonight it became known about the murder in Nalchik of Aslan Tsipinov, an ethnographer and Doctor of Historical Sciences.

The most frequent issues, on which residents of North Ossetia addressed the Russian President's Reception Office, which was opened in Vladikavkaz a bit more than a month ago, were allocation of housing facilities, material assistance, observance of law and the condition of public order; they also reported their social problems.

Veterans of the wars for the territorial integrity of their country are on the hunger strike for the third day already. They demand improvement of their social conditions.

The mass brawl in Derbent could be caused by a conflict between the followers of the Salafi and Tariqa trends of Islam, said a local resident Magomed Khanmagomedov. So far, the local militia has refused to disclose any details of the incident.

An OMON (special militia) serviceman was detained in the Stavropol Territory; he is suspected of attacking, along with his friends, local Korean nationals. During the attack, they cried out nationalistic slogans. According to eyewitnesses, after the fight the militiaman deliberately knocked down one of the Koreans to death. So far, inspectors do not confirm any ethnic motives of the murder.

2010 in Northern Caucasus has been marked with a loss of over one hundred peaceful residents in armed confrontations. Some of them perished because of actions of members of the top brass. The number of victims can be even more if we take into consideration statements of relatives of the people who died in special operations and skirmishes, they say that their people became accidental victims or were kidnapped.

Several groups of young people from Grozny visited the Russian capital with the aim to support their relatives, friends and Caucasians in general, after mass riots out of national hatred burst out on December 11 in Manege Square in Moscow.

Today, Elista - the capital of the republic - and its districts hosted commemoration actions dated to the 67th anniversary of deportation of the Kalmyk people. On December 27, 1943, a decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet was signed "On Liquidation of the Kalmyk ASSR", and on the following day the operation "Uluses" was launched, which assumed forced resettling of the entire nation to remote localities of the country.

Arsen Abaikhanov, who on July 25 in Karachay-Cherkessia knocked down by his car Bella Ksalova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who later died, has lodged a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court, claiming that "the verdict was unfair and too severe." As reported by the office of the Prikubanskiy District Court, Abaikhanov's cassation will be considered only after the New Year. So far, he is at large.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Begkham Atigov, Acting Secretary of the Security Council of Ingushetia. On November 18, Israil Torshkhoev was taken away to some unknown place by unknown persons in camouflage and masks.

As reported by the spokesman of the Southern Regional Centre of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), two young men suffered in an explosion of household gas in the village of Nesterovskaya, Sunzha District of Ingushetia.

Under the pressure of ecologists the Customer's Service of the Directorate for Complex Reconstruction of Railways and Construction of Railway Objects in the City of Sochi (known as "DKRS-Sochi") of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Russian Railways" has held a repeated dendrological examination of Cape Vidny. After the examination, it was decided to transplant the Red-Book plants growing in the way of the construction. However, ecologists are going to fight for changing the whole railway construction project.

Marina Mamisheva, a resident of Nalchik and mother of Astimir Mamishev, who is searched on charges of committing a number of crimes, claims that her family - she and her two other sons - have no relation to Astimir's activities.

In the capital of Dagestan, unidentified criminals tried to blow up a car belonging to an employee of the Savings Bank of Russia. One person was wounded, supposedly, the car owner.

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan, chaired by Imran Gadzhigaibov, has dismissed the cassation appeal of journalist Fatullaev. The complaint was filed against the decision of the Baku Court of Appeal about Fatullaev's freedom restriction measure in the form of arrest.

An ex-officer of the republican riot squad was attacked last night in the village of Bairamaul, Khasavyurt district, a source in law enforcement bodies of the republic reported.

An explosion took place on December, 27, in the ground floor of a five-storey domestic building of 60 flats in Kalmykov street in the micro-district of Volny Aul, Nalchik.

A piquet in support of the journalists taken into custody in the countries of CIS passed off in Moscow, opposite the Belarusian embassy. The participants also spoke about the cases of victimization and murders of journalists in Northern and Southern Caucasus.