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The relatives of the inmates of the Colony "IK-1 Salyn" in Kalmykia have turned to the leader of North Ossetia asking to help in transferring them home for further serving their sentences. According to the relatives, at the colony, natives of North Ossetia are regularly "becoming victims of personnel's illegitimate actions and abuses."

Law enforcement officers in Kabardino-Balkaria have been seeking for Zeitun Boziev, supposed murderer of TV journalist Kazbek Gekkiev, for suspicion of participation in a paramilitary group. His distinguishing marks and a photo were placed at the web-site of the Ministry. After the death of leaders of local armed underground Boziev was one of the main candidates to replace them”, “Commersant” reports referring to its own sources.

The sufferers on the case of murder of ”Novaya Gazeta” observer Anna Politkovskaya are going to enter a motion of abrogation of defendant Dmitry Pavliuchenkov’s plea bargain in Moscow city court, lawyer Anna Stavitskaya reports.

The court that is considering the case about the attack on Nalchik in 2005 has appointed additional advocates to defendants Murat Kashirgov and Zaur Sokmyshev, because the advocate Rita Gilyaeva, who had earlier defended them, fell ill and was hospitalized.

At the trial on the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov, who was shot dead on June 10, 2011, conducted by the Moscow City Court, three witnesses have testified, including the driver who brought Budanov to the notary office.

A special operation conducted on December 8 in the Untsukul and Gumbetov Districts of Dagestan resulted in detention of three persons-organizers of the terror act against Sheikh Said Afandi; they all gave confessions, the Russia's National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) reports today.

At least 67 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in November 2012; of them, 38 persons perished and 29 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.

Today trial on the case of colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder was continued in Moscow city court. During the session one of the witnesses declared that he knew the defendant under the name of Magomed Suleimanov.

On December, 8, unidentified masked and camouflaged people in the settlement of Chontaul, Kizilyurt district of Dagestan, attempted to burn down Salimat Gadjieva’s family consisting of seven persons. This was reported by the woman herself.

According to preliminary data, today in Ingushetia during a skirmish in the village of Dolakovo, Suleiman Shankhoev, the coordinator of the team of suicide bombers "Riyad al-Saliheen", banned in Russia, was killed, said the press service of the FSB Department for Ingushetia.

As reported by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the suspect in the murder on December 5 inNalchik of journalist Kazbek Gekkiev was established as Zeitun Boziev, 30.

In the course of their meeting with Irakli Garibashvili, the head of the Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), residents of Pankisi Gorge acquainted him with their versions of what had happened during the special operation in Lopota Gorge. The Minister promised to run an impartial investigation into the incident, the press service of the MIA reports.

Murder of TV journalist in Nalchik at the background of threats addressed by North-Caucasian militants to mass media people; election of the head of the Krymsk District of the Krasnodar Territory; appointment of the date of presidential election in Armenia; winning by Baku of the right to organize the first European Olympic Games; approval of a new ombudsperson and pardoning of over 300 prisoners in Georgia; recall of licenses from three banks within two months, and blocking by power agents of a mountain village in Dagestan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of December 3-9, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Oleg Melnikov, a former employee of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), detained on December 7 inUkraine, has been arrested by the Darnitsa District Court of Kiev for the term of 40 days.

Relatives of the prisoners who were beaten on December 4, when they were brought to colony "Salyn IK-1" in Kalmykia, claim that the victims are still without medical attention. The local Kalmykia's UFSIN (Department of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service) denies any beating of inmates on December 4 and transfer of those beaten on November 2 to other jails.