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Today, at the trial on the murder case of Ingush oppositionist Magomed Evloev, his relatives left the courtroom after they learnt that the main witnesses would not be interrogated. This was reported by the Evloevs' advocate Magomed Gandarov.

On December 11, 1994, under the decree of the then president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, federal troops were brought to the territory of the Chechen Republic, and the first military campaign, called "restoration of the constitutional order" began.

Specialists of the fire supervising service of North Ossetia will examine, together with local militiamen, all the places, where the New Year cultural and mass actions are planned. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt that the count of such places is about a hundred, including ten night clubs, of them seven are round-the-clock ones.

Employees of Chechen power agencies have handed over the body of a 21-year-old citizen of the city of Argun to his relatives. He was kidnapped by armed persons several months ago after he had been released from a militia station. The militia asserts that the young man was killed in the recent armed clash with members of the armed underground. However, human rights activists and his relatives are sure that he fell victim of an extrajudicial execution.

Judge Murat Tungoev from the Karabulak City Court has sentenced Ibragim Evloev, accused of murdering Magomed Evloev, owner of the oppositional website "Ingushetia.Ru", to two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement. Magomed Evloev's family is going to appeal against the verdict.

The consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by the bloggers Adnan Gadjizade and Emin Milli, convicted in Azerbaijan, was appointed for December 22 at the Baku Appeal Court under presidency of Gail Mamedov.

Today, at the process on the case on the attack on Nalchik at the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, it became known that Galina Gorislavskaya, who was chairing the trial, was appointed, by the order of Russian President, to the position of a judge of the Moscow Regional Court.

Boris Zumakulov, Ombudsman of Kabardino-Balkaria, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the number of complaints and applications addressed to him is on the rise. At the same time, according to his story, the republic sees a positive trend towards greater openness and transparency of the work of various law-enforcement bodies.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) possesses information that Russia has sent an extradition request to Egypt in relation to Ibragim Mankiev, a native of Ingushetia, because he was slandered by someone under torture. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt about it from Natalia Prilutskaya, an AI employee.

Militia Major Alexei Dymovskiy from Novorossisk has stated that militia bosses from his city issued orders on how to counteract human rights activists. This was stated by Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee for Human Right, who is Dymovskiy's official representative.

The two-day international conference, opened on December 10 in the Baku "Europe" Hotel, is on development of the civil society in Azerbaijan. Officers from power agencies are not taking part.

Marat Valeev, the figurant of the murder criminal case of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine, shot dead on July 9, 2004, was set free. The accusation failed to prove his involvement in the murder of the journalist.

On December 9, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Ilham Dzhafarov, considered the cassation complaint of three journalists of the "Nota" newspaper convicted for slander. The complaint was denied.

On December 8, the North-Caucasian Military Regional Court upheld the decision of the Grozny Military Court passed in October on illegality of inspector's refusal to present case materials to advocate Yuri Kastanov who represented the interests of Katyr-Yurt villagers from Chechnya.

The investigation of the case dealing with kidnapping and subsequent murder of Zarema Sadulayeva, head of the public organization "Let's Save the Generation", and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov is run at a poor level. This is the opinion of the victims' colleagues and friends. Besides, they assert that Victor Ledenyov, head of the Investigatory Committee of Russia for Chechnya, just repeats the earlier expressed version of Chechen President.

In the context of the World Day of Human Rights, marked today, the US State Department has rewarded Maksharip Aushev from Ingushetia, assassinated in October 2009, among the two, in their opinion, outstanding activists of the human rights movement.

The International Organization Against Torture (IOAT) plans to hold protest actions demanding to release from imprisonment in Azerbaijan Mushvig Guseinov, a journalist of the employee of the newspaper "Bizim Yol" (Our Way), who suffers from tuberculosis. This is stated in the letter sent to the Azerbaijani Institute of Peace and Democracy (IPD).

Surgeons from the medical centre "Erebuni" from Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are in Sochi for their charitable actions. On December 7, at the local children's hospital they made an operation to correct a congenital lip defect to Mikhail Avdzhan, a six-year old Sochi resident. Within the next few days they plan to make three similar surgeries more.

A criminal case against two natives of Chechnya detained in the context of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train was opened because two dozes of hashish were found in the pockets of both of them.

Today at night, at about 2 a.m., a fire happened in the office of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP). It was extinguished by the fire-fighting service of the Ministry for Emergencies of Kabardino-Balkaria. According to BEBP's the office equipment and furniture burnt down.