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On December 10, Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh signed a decree on appointing elections to local self-government bodies on Saturday, February 12, 2011.

A rally and a march to the building of the Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan were held on December 10 by schoolchildren and their parents, who protested against a possible ban on wearing headscarves (hijabs) in schools. Hundreds of people came to the rally.

As reported by the press service of the Dagestani MIA, tonight a STSI (State Traffic Safety Inspectorate) inspector was shot dead in the village of Sergokala, Sergokalin District of Dagestan.

The term of preliminary investigation into the case initiated in relation to lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten in June by employees of the Khasavyurt militia department. At the same time, Ms Magomedova asserts that the criminal case opened against the militiamen who had beaten her, is not investigated.

Bottles with Molotov cocktail were thrown into the building for liturgical sermons of Jehovah's Witnesses, located in the city of Labinsk, Krasnodar Territory. The building caught fire; the door and some window frames were knocked out by the blast. Fortunately, there were no human casualties.

The situation in the Investigatory Department of the ICPO in the Astrakhan Region needs attention of President Dmitri Medvedev, believes Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the All-Russian Public Movement (ARPM) "For Human Rights", who was present at the press conference "Astrakhan Kingdom of Lawlessness ", held on December 7 in Moscow. Astrakhan authorities refrain from comments on the presented facts.

Ekaterina Rogoza, an investigator of the Kuschevskiy ROVD (District Interior Division), who had posted her video appeal to the Russian President on the Internet with accusations against high-ranking law enforcement officials, has rejected the information about concealment of her incomes and her unofficial contacts with the family of Sergey Tsapok.

The Human Rights Day was marked on December 10 in many countries of the world. In this context, today, the Ombudsman in Georgia Giorgi Tugushi presented a report on the human rights situation of persons with disabilities. The members of the ad hoc group of the Ombudsman's office made monitoring at eight state institutions for disabled, elderly people and orphans.

Gayane Antonova, a nature defender, states that she was hurt as a result of another attempt to protect the red-book trees from felling on Cape Vidnoe, Khosta District of Sochi. Builders argue that Antonova intentionally stood under an already undercut tree and failed to react to requests to leave the construction site; no violent actions were taken against her.

As stated by an official release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia of December 10, Bella Barkinkhoeva, a resident of Ingushetia, detained by Moscow militia, is not a terrorist.

For several days already 15 Georgian seamen are held in captivity by Somalia pirates; they get no food, as reported by Sergo Devadze, father of captain's assistant. According to Sergo, the status of hostages worsened after talks of the lawyer of the Greek company-ship owner with the pirates.

Children's Ombudsman Pavel Astakhov at a conference in Elista on the results of inspection of child welfare institutions during his one-day visit to Kalmykia on December, 8, demanded to discharge Head doctor of the children's hospital.

In the evening of December, 9, in Dagestan unidentified people fired upon a Khasavyurt municipal entrance post "Don" with five militiamen there. According to one source, a militiaman was wounded, another one reports two wounded officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs.

Ekaterina Rogoza, investigator of the Department of Interior Affairs in Kuschevsky district, who has put out her video message to the President of Russia on the net concealed her income from leasing land, Marina Gridneva, official representative of Prosecutor General's, reported.

As reported by a source from the MIA of Dagestan, a militiaman was wounded in an attack on a militia post in Kaspiisk.

Yesterday, on December 8, in the evening, Zaur Alibekov, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, disappeared without any traces. This was reported by his wife, Gulnara Alibekova. She believes that local law enforcement officers may have to do with the incident.

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.