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As reported by the Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd Region, the indictment has been approved against Svetlana Konovalova, the former headmistress of School No. 2 in the Octiabrskiy District, who was suspected of taking bribes for helping in passing the unified state examination (USE).

On December 17-23, 2013, at least 10 persons suffered in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, three people were killed and seven wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the Moscow City Court, at the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, the defence has presented the results of the examination that had failed to reveal any biological traces of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov on the exhibits, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the defence of the figurant in the murder case of the journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya has appealed against the sentence of the Moscow City Court (MCC) against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who received 11 years of colony, said Karen Nersisyan, the lawyer of the convict.

Today, the Tbilisi City Court has appointed a bail of 30,000 laris as a precondition for Nika Gvaramiya, Director General of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, to go at large. A similar decision was made in relation to other figurants in the case of bribery and forgery of documents.

Today, the trial has been finalized of the third group of defendants, accused of riots in the city of Guba. Two out of seven defendants received real prison terms; the remaining five were sentenced conditionally.

Beslan Tsechoev, a villager of Sagopshi, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, was detained by the police without explanation, his relatives assert. They fear that the man will be exposed to illegal methods of physical pressure, noting that earlier similar cases had already happened.

The murder of the TV presenter Kazbek Gekkiev did not entail any mass resignation of employees of the State TV and Radio Company (STRC) "Kabardino-Balkaria". To date, only three out of one hundred and eighty employees have submitted their voluntarily resignation applications, said Kamal Abdullaev, Deputy Director of the STRC, which is a branch of the All-Russian TV and Radio Company.

The session of the Tbilisi City Court, scheduled for December 19, on the case of Akhmed Chataev, a native of Chechnya and a Russian citizen, who was detained in a special operation in Lopota Gorge, did not take place due to the failure of the prosecutor to summon his witnesses.

At the trial of the case of the attack on Nalchik, the court has announced the decision to extend the term of the defendants' detention for another three months, until March 26, 2013.

At the Moscow City Court (MCC), where today the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov was continued, the advocate of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov has reported about an incident in Chechnya, which was treated by him as an act of intimidation intended to press the relatives of his client and the defendant himself.

As reported by the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the death toll of the special operation conducted on December 19 in Nazran included two militant leaders Ayub Kholadov and Movsar Katsiev, and a militant Khamzat Pugoev from Katsiev's grouping.

On December, 18, European Court of Human Rights considered the case “Aslakhanov and others vs. Russian Federation” and obliged Russia to pay 550 thousand euros to the families of eight residents of Chechnya who disappeared in the first half of the 2000-s. The court took side with the claimants who stated that their relatives were kidnapped by representatives of Russian power ministries.

Today the attorneys of the defendants on the case of attempt of blasting “Sapsan” train appealed against the verdict of judge Andrey Rasnovsky of Moscow city court who acknowledged four defendants guilty and sentenced them to 14 to 17 years of custody in a strict regime colony.

Relatives of Marat Gunashev, anaesthetist detained for suspicion of involvement in murder of Ahmed Magomedov, Chief of the Department of Interior Affairs of Makhachkala, appealed to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika asking to look into the matter.