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A draft “On Amnesty” aimed at reduction of custody terms for women, the underage, persons who committed economic crimes and release of 190 political prisoners was adopted in first reading by the Georgian Parliament.

Ombudsman of the Russian Federation Vladimir Lukin is going to be always aware of the process of investigation of murder of journalist Kazbek Gekkiev killed in Kabardino-Balkaria. He reported this on December, 7, after a session of Coordination Council of Ombudsmen.

Resident of Khasavyurt district of Dagestan Magomed Sulaev who was earlier detained by members of power ministries reported shadowing which started after he was acknowledged witness for the defense on Anvar Guseiniv’s case.

Chief Public Prosecutor’s office of Georgia issued official wanted notices for four ex-employees of the Department of Constitutional Security of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the country: Data Akhalaya, Soso Topuridze, Geronty Alanya and Oleg Melnikov.

The fate of the missing resident of Ingushetia Orts Almurziev is still not known, said his mother Raishat Kokurkhoeva. According to her story, the remains found in the vicinity of the village of Ali-Yurt do not belong to her son. This was also confirmed by Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Ingushetia, who also said that Almurziev had been declared wanted.

About 25 supporters of the former Prime Minister of Georgia are holding a spontaneous picket outside at the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, demanding to provide an advocate to Vano Merabishvili.

In Chechnya, Internet users are not able to open the websites hosting the film "Innocence of Muslims".

As reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent with reference to Keti Bekauri, the advocate of Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya, the son of the first president of Georgia, who is accused of attacking an athlete, the defence hopes to reduce the expected imprisonment term for Tsotne from 13 years to 5 years after the charges of espionage and conspiracy have been lifted.

The court took into custody in one of the investigative isolation wards of Moscow ex-militiaman Sergey Khajikurbanov, defendant on the case of murder of journalist of “Novaya Gazeta” Anna Politkovskaya shot down on October, 7, 2006.

In the evening of December, 6, unidentified people in the settlement of Maiskoye, Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, forced Ahmed Buzurtanov, trainer of “Kaloy” wrestler’s club, into a car and carried him away in an unknown direction, local residents reported.

The Tbilisi City Court has released the citizen of Russia Akhmed Chataev, who was detained in the course of a special operation conducted in Lopota Gorge, under the bale of 5000 laris, as the "Information Centre Kakheti" reports.

In the course of arrival on December 4 of a new group to Colony "Salyn IK-1" in Kalmykia, about 20 prisoners were beaten; their relatives report. The colony itself and the republic's UFSIN (local Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service) deny any information about beating the inmates.

Five former and current employees of the Correction Colony No. 10 located in the Rostov Region, suspected of beating an inmate, have seen charges of abusing their service duties, as reported by the Investigatory Department for the Rostov Region of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian federation (ICRF).

Eyewitness of the crime Maria Minakova described ex-colonel Yuri Busanov’s murder as a dark-haired tall man of an average build in Moscow city court today. Anatoly Zatserenko, another witness of the murder, recognized defendant Yusup Temerkhanov in court.

Journalists of the TV and radio company in Kabardino-Balkaria where Kazbek Gekkiev killed in Nalchik had worked earlier received threats from gunmen. Several days before Gekkiev’s murder gunmen in Dagestan also spoke of “execution lists” for journalists.