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The conflict around frequent hazardous emissions by the "Electrozink" factory would not abate in the capital of North Ossetia. Despite assurances of the enterprise managers that emissions into the atmosphere took place only on October 5 and 28, people go on complaining of periodical unpleasant smell in the air.

As reported today by Stanislav Kochiev, chairman of the parliament of South Ossetia, who is now in Moscow, South Ossetia offers Georgia to make a simultaneous exchange of all detained Georgians and Ossetians without any preconditions.

Tatiana Lokshina, deputy director of the Moscow office of the Human Rights Watch, was summoned as a witness in the criminal case, initiated against Oleg Orlov, head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on the charge of slandering President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. A number of other human rights activists also received summons.

At the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Russia has lost another case to relatives of five residents of Chechnya kidnapped in 2003. Under the decision of the Court, the victims should get in total 215,000 euros of compensation.

Ms Chechenova, M. S., Magistrate Judge of Judicial District No. 8 of the city of Nalchik, having considered the materials of the case related to the six persons, detained yesterday for their picket and accused of an administrative offence, has ruled to stop the case because of absence of any offence attributes in their actions.

Egyptian human rights activists beat an alarm. Under their information, Ibragim Mankiev, 32, a citizen of the Russian Federation, who is kept by the State Security Body of the Arab Republic of Egypt, is exposed to torture. This was reported by the bureau of the Amnesty International (AI) in Alexandria.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has launched a check of observance of the pricing legislation in the pharmaceutical market of the republic. Numerous cases when drugs were sold too expensive have been revealed.

The Prosecutor's Office of Karachai-Circassia had revealed a number of violations in the work of the Republic's Social and Rehabilitation Children's Centre named "Nadezhda" (Hope). Prosecutors believe that certain provisions of the Centre's charter contradict the legislation.

Russia should strain harder towards stability in Northern Caucasus. This was stated by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights, in his report published on November 24 on the outcomes of his visit to Chechnya and Ingushetia in September 2009.

The Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs demands from Georgian authorities to stop unprovoked, according to the MFA's statement, detentions of citizens of the Russian Federation.

The health condition of Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is in pre-trial custody under the charge of a deliberate murder attempt, where he went on hunger strike, continues to aggravate.

David Bakradze, head of the Georgian parliament, has accused, in his comments on the murder in the evening on November 23 in Moscow of Eduard Gurtskaya, 19, a native of Abkhazia, Russia of ethnically-motivated persecution of people.

The Supreme Court (SC) has refused to cancel the verdict passed to Ingush oppositionists, including Maksharip Aushev, assassinated a month ago, on the case about organization of mass disorders in Ingushetia.

The persons detained today at an attempt to hold a picket in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria were illegally kept at the OVD (Interior Unit) No. 1 of Nalchik, where a protocol on administrative offence was drawn up; then, they were transported to the court. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Elena Bairamkulova, an advocate and a colleague of Magomed Abubakarov, who is defending the interests of those accused under the case about the 2005 events in Nalchik.

Russia is preparing an answer to the interstate complaint submitted by Georgia on the events in South Ossetia and received by Russia from the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on February 11, 2009. This was stated today by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation.

In the first 9 months of this year Armenia registered 383 crimes committed by minors. As compared with the same period of 2008, the count of such crimes went up by 4.9 percent. This was reported by Colonel Ovanes Tamamyan, head of the Chief Criminal Search Department of the Police of Armenia.

The local prosecutor's office made another audit of the chemist's network and revealed facts of deliberate overpricing of drugs in Karachai-Circassia.

On November 23, at 6 p.m., near the building of the Georgian parliament, three activists of the social movement "November 7" - Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, Dagi Tsoguriya and Irakli Kordzaya - were detained. They were found guilty of breaking the law on rallies.

Inspectors consider several versions of the death of two law enforcers in the city of Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria, whose decapitated bodies were found yesterday in the luggage compartment of the car left in the roadside. Among the versions - an answer of the militants to an article published in a local newspapers about liquidation of the leaders of the republic's extremist underground - Shura.

Today in the morning, in Barsuki village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled the car of Hadjibikar Buzurtanov, an employee of the convoy service of the MIA. The militiaman and his small daughter, who was with him in the car, were shot dead.