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President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili pardoned 251 convicts, Chairperson of the Committee for clemency with the President Elena Tevdoradze told the journalists today.

On December 4, the Voroshilov District Court of Volgograd considered a petition of the prosecutor's office asking to treat the appeal of Vladimir Kvachkov, a retired colonel of the so-called GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff), who is now kept at the Lefortovo Prison of the FSB under the charge of a putsch preparation, as an extremist material. The court dismissed the above petition of the prosecutor's office; however, the latter intends to challenge the ruling.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the cassation lodged by the prosecutor's office against the ruling of the Lefortovo District Court to initiate a criminal case against the official who stormed the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre during the terror act. Now, the victims in the terror act case intend to challenge the MCC's decision at the supervisory instance.

In Moscow, at the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, the court has dismissed the petition lodged by advocates of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov, who asked to add the photos made from the video, which had allegedly fixed the moment of investigatory actions conducted in the place of the crime, to the case files.

So far, there is no information about setting up a joint Ossetian-Ingush post on the Chermen Circle, said Akhmed Kotiev, Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic of Ingushetia. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of North Ossetia also does not confirm that the post near the village of Chermen can become a joint one, noting that regiments of the Russia's MIA, sent from different regions of the country are on duty there. In their turn, bloggers give varying estimates as to the importance of this checkpoint.

Anna Kokoeva, wife of ex-editor of an oppositional web-site Uasamonga.ru Soslan Kokoev, activist of campaign office of candidate for presidency of North Ossetia Alla Djioeva, went on a hunger strike in Elista. The woman was detained for suspicion of bribing an official of the penal facility.

A thirty-two-year-old woman healer, resident of Baksan district, was killed in Kabardino-Balkaria, Committee of Inquiry of Russia in the republic reported.

In Moscow today, the Tver District Court has extended till March 7 the arrest of Ruslan Zhamborov, the head of the Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Federal Post Service of Russia; this was announced by Alexandra Berezina, the press secretary of the court.

Today, twelve prisoners of the Ksani Colony sick with AIDS and tuberculosis went on hunger strike, said Sozar Subari, Minister for Punishment Enforcement of Georgia.

The village of Balakhani, Untsukul District of Dagestan, is still blocked by power agents, while the adjacent forest is on fire, local residents assert. However, as stated by a source from the Untsukul ROVD (District Interior Division), there is no fire threat to the villages located in the district.

Evidence of witnesses for state prosecution received at a trial on Yuri Budanov’s case today play no fundamental role for the defense party, Valentin Varkentin, attorney of defendant Yusup Temerkhanov, declared.

Vano Merabishvili, Secretary General of the "United National Movement and the former Prime Minister of Georgia was interrogated in the context of information about his use of a fake passport when crossing the border of Georgia as a member of the presidential delegation. The MIA of Georgia wants to question him again.

Officials of the Ministry of Justice of Dagestan refused to receive a notification of holding an anti-corruption meeting, the organizers of the action informed the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent.

As long as the murder case of Khadjimurad Kamalov, the founder of the Dagestani public and political weekly "Chernovik, is accompanied by the operative service of the MIA of Dagestan, all the requests of the public will be blocked at the level of the republic's power structures. This was stated by the casualty's brother Magdi-Magomed Kamalov at the press conference held at the "Interfax" Press Centre on November 30. The founder of the "Chernovik" Khadjimurad Kamalov was killed on December 15, 2011, in Makhachkala, when the gunmen made 14 shots at him. Investigators associate the murder with Kamalov's professional activities. His colleagues assert that the inquiry is boycotted.

Alexander Mukhadze, the former director of Gldani Prison No. 8, a figurant in the case of the death of Colonel Sergo Tetradze, suspected in espionage, who has left the country, will be charged in absentia.