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Lawyers of Apti Magmadov and Aishat Magmadova intend to appeal against the verdict against their clients. They will also insist on full court's acquittal of their client and his sister, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

On December 26, in the city of Novocherkassk, Rostov Region, a picket was held against criminal prosecution and arrest of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "I'm Authorized to State" Alexander Tolmachev, one of the leaders of local communists Vladislav Zhuravlyov and an activist of the entrepreneurs' movement Konstantin Astakhov.

Last night two unidentified masked and camouflaged persons fired upon a shop in Izerbash from self-firers. The shop flared up as a result. There are no victims or injured persons, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Dagestan reports.

Committee for clemency with the President of Georgia granted the requests of 73 convicts. After the session of the Committee in the President's Palace in Tbilisi People's Defender Giorgi Tugushi said that 144 requests all in all were considered, five of them were from underage convicts.

Natives of Chechnya Apti and Aishat Magomedova accused of complicity in terrorism and creating paramilitary groups were acknowledged guilty.

Law enforcers of Chechnya have detained two persons in Grozny, suspected of assisting the members of illegal armed formation (IAFs).

The ex-head of the administration of the Kotovo District of the Volgograd Region and the General Director of the OJSC (Open Joint-Stock Company) "Volgogradneftegazstroy" are suspected of theft of 4 million roubles allocated from the budget for reconstruction of a road. Investigation is underway, the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MIA) in the Volgograd Region reports.

On December, 25, a session of Committee for clemency to the convicts will be held in Georgia. On this day it will be decided how many convicts will be recommended for clemency.

Two co-chairmen of Legal Committee of the Congress of the USA Frank Wolf and James McGovern sent a message to President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev calling to release political prisoners.

As reported by the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Krasnodar Territory, the employees of the Belorechenskaya Colony subject convicted juveniles to psychological pressure.

At the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik, the court extended the detention period for 54 defendants for another three months. For three defendants Kazbek Budtuev, Zalim Ulimbashev, and Sergey Kaziev the pre-trial restrictions in the form of recognizance not to leave were remained unchanged. Besides, at the court session, the court listened to the testimonies of witnesses in the case.

The Volgograd Regional Court found the senior investigator of the district police division for bribery and ordered him to pay a large fine of 960,000 roubles, the Regional Court reports.

In the Volgograd Region, 15 officers of the regional Department of the Russian Federal Correction Service (known as "UFSIN") have been brought to "strict disciplinary responsibility" after VIP cells intended for crime bosses were found in Colony No. 12.