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The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has indicted in absentia the former Minister of Justice Zurab Adeishvili of abuse of office, organization of humiliation and inhuman treatment of prisoners, as well as of falsification of a criminal case.

Anatoly Boltykhov, a member of the public movement "Minin and Pozharsky Militia", has held a solo picket in front of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of the Volgograd Region demanding due attention of law enforcement bodies to killings and attacks.

According to preliminary data, during the special operation held in Dagestan, Gadjimurad Dalgatov, Arsen Kuramagomedov and Shamil Akhmedov, members of the "Kizilyurt" grouping, were killed, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

In Makhachkala, a suspected accomplice of militants killed in a shootout when he was trying to break through to the apartment blocked by the police, and a law enforcement agent was wounded. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source at the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

In Dagestan, in the village of Chontaul of the Kizilyurt District, the active phase of the special operation has been completed, in which two persons were killed. This was reported by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

North Ossetia held a ceremony of farewell to Ibragim Dudarov, Deputy Mufti of the Republic, the imam of the mosque of Vladikavkaz, who was killed on December 26. According to the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", during 2012, in Northern Caucasus, at least ten religious leaders were killed eight in Dagestan, one in the Stavropol Territory, and one in North Ossetia.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, does not rule out the possibility that Dokku Umarov is in the mountainous regions of the republic.

The Stavropol Territorial Court in Pyatigorsk has ended the debates of the parties of the prosecution and the defence in the case of the residents of the Neftekumsk District, accused of plotting terror acts. The prosecutors have asked for the punishment for the defendants in the form of 22, 24 and 25 years in prison.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported about presentation of charges to a member of the armed grouping in Dagestan of committing a number of very grave crimes, including the murder of five hunters in February 2012.

Today, the Kabardino-Balkarian Agricultural University (KBAU) said farewell to Boris Zherukov, its Rector, who was shot dead by unidentified persons on December 25 in his office.

The Russia's Ministry of Justice has put the movie "Innocence of Muslims" on the federal list of materials deemed as extremist.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has finished preparation of the materials for accusing the former Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili of organizing beatings of prisoners in Gldani Prison No. 8.

Today, the Supreme Court of Dagestan has considered a compliant lodged by the advocate of the anaesthetist Marat Gunashev, accused of involvement in the murder of the Chief of Police in Makhachkala, and upheld the decision of the Lenin District Court of Makhachkala on the extension of Gunashev's custody until January 27, 2013.

Abdurakhman Abakarov, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, who had been considered as kidnapped, was kept at the Centre for Combating Extremism, where he had been taken for questioning. Now Abakarov is at large, said his advocate Israpil Gadadov.

Among the versions of the murder of the rector of the Kabardino-Balkarian State Agrarian University (KBSAU) Boris Zherukov, his professional activities are considered. Law enforcement officials do not exclude that militants could be involved in the crime.