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The last man killed in the special operation held on December 28-29, 2012, in Makhachkala. That was Nabiyulla Askerov, a 29-year-old native of Dagestan. This was reported by a source in the Investigating Committee for Dagestan.

Today, in Georgia, the court granted the motion filed by the defence and released on bail the defendant accused in the case against Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence.

In 2012, in Karachay-Cherkessia, at least seven persons fell victim to the armed conflict ongoing in Northern Caucasus; of them, five persons were killed and two more were wounded. The number of victims is much smaller that in 2011, when there were 34 of them. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on the data received from its own correspondents and on information from other open sources.

Goar Melkonyan, the mother of soldier Roman Egiazaryan who was killed in 2003, appealed to the court of appeal to challenge the decision of the court of general jurisdiction, in accordance with that the soldiers suspected in the murder of her son were acquitted.

A suspected member of the extremist grouping "Kaspiiskaya" opened fire on policemen and was killed in a shootout. This was reported by the District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Tragic accidents with tourists in the mountains of the Caucasus; protest action against non-combat army losses and start of trial of editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" in Azerbaijan; launch of top class railway train and awarding the winners of the contest "Civil Society Heroes" in Ingushetia; stop of servicing population by one of major banks of Dagestan; criminal case about bribe-taking initiated against a major official from the Volgograd Region, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of January 7-13, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of January 7-13, 2013, at least ten persons suffered in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, six persons were killed and four wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

On January 11, at 09:30 p.m. Moscow time, in Dagestan, unidentified persons shot in the direction of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. The journalist was not wounded in an attack.

In Dagestan, during the storming of the house located in the village of Novy Khushet, Umar Kadyragaev, a member of the "Kadar" grouping, was killed. This was reported by a source in the Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan.

In Dagestan, in Kaspiisk, during a shootout with policemen, a man was killed who was the first to open fire on them.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, during the last three months of 2012 at least 39 persons fell victim to the armed conflict: 25 of them perished and 14 more were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Court pronounced the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of home arrest to the alleged organizer of the Zorb entertainment in Dombay, where two tourists fell down into the gorge while rolling down inside an orb.

The Court has changed the restriction measure to Irakli Okruashvili, ex-Minister of Defence of Georgia, to release on bail of 15,000 laris (about 9000 US dollars) and released him in the courtroom.

In the village of Yanikoi of the Chegem District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a staff member of the Centre to Combat Extremism of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) was wounded. The policeman got wounded while trying to detain a local resident, the MIA reports.

Today, the Georgian Court of Appeal granted the motion filed by advocates of Irakli Okruashvili and cancelled the decision of the Tbilisi City Court on sentencing him to 11 years of imprisonment in the case of extortion of shares of the cellular communication company "GeoCell".