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As stated by Ibragim Mogushkov, the head of the Ingush Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), during ten months of this year the number of attempts on power agents in Ingushetia has double as compared with 2011. This figure matches the statistics of the "Caucasian Knot" gathered during ten months of this year and in 2011.

The investigation has finalized the inquiry into the criminal case against the hospital doctor in Stavropol, where a teenager died from burns received in a fire in a pressure chamber. The doctor is accused of causing death by negligence, the Territorial Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Today, at the sitting of the Krasnodar Territorial Court on the criminal case against alleged members of the Tsapok's gang, the motion to dismiss the presiding judge was denied for the third time.

Today, the Moscow City Court (MCC) has ruled that the case concerning the murder of former Colonel Yuri Budanov will be considered with participation of a jury. The selection of jurymen is scheduled for November 30; it will be made by the MCC.

The case initiated against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, a former employee of the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, who is accused of murdering the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, has been transferred to the court, the Russia's GPO (General Prosecutor's Office) reports.

The defence of Sergey Tsapok, the alleged leader of the gang that committed the massacre in the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, intends to seek for a repeated psychological-psychiatric examination of the defendant, said Igor Skripka, Tsapok's advocate.

Today, during the parties' debate, the prosecutor has asked to re-qualify the charge in the case of the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after whose punch a Moscow student Ivan Agafonov had died, to a softer one – "causing death by negligence", sentence the defendant to two years of freedom restraint and release him from custody.

On November 13, Dato Golidzhashvili, a heavily sick inmate of Prison No. 15 in Georgia, went on hunger strike in protest against refusal of his CER (conditional early relief).

As stated today by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", at a press conference in Moscow, the acquitting verdict passed to Nazir Guliev, a former employee of the Ingush MIA, is illegitimate. According to her version, Guliev should have not been acquitted and released from liability.

Evgeny Gurov, ex-defendant on the case of mass murder in the stanitsa of Kushevskaya, submitted a claim of compensation for moral damage inflicted on him to a total sum of one million rubles, Kushevsky district court reported.

On November, 13, about 50 members of Armenian National Congress (ANC) in Yerevan gathered in front of the building of the court to express protest against the sentence to four activists of ANC convicted for hooliganism, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Tatiana Okushko, attorney of Bashir Khamkhoev accused of committing the act of terror in “Domodedovo” airport, appealed to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in connection with the information she received about threats to her client from Chief of Federal state facility Investigative isolation ward No 4 colonel Alexey Khorev.

An 18-year-old native of Azerbaijan, who on November 12 shot from a traumatic pistol at the wedding party, was detained for two days. This was reported by the Moscow police.

Today, the court sentenced a resident of Budennovsk, who was found guilty of raping a nine-year-old girl, to 15 years of imprisonment in high security colony. This was reported by Violetta Bondareva, the head of the united press service of the courts of the Stavropol Territory.

The Division for Especially Serious Cases Investigation of the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Kabardino-Balkaria instituted a criminal case under Article "Fraud committed on a large scale" against Ivan Gerter, the former head of the Government of Kabardino-Balkaria.