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Riots with nationalist context continue in the cities of Russia; Geneva discussions on the Caucasus achieve stalemate; Armenian Government sees serious reshuffling, - look these and other events in the review of the week of December 13-19, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the first 11 months of 2010, the Republic of Kalmykia saw about two hundred audits of financial and economic activities of public institutions and federal state unitary enterprises. They revealed financial violations in the sum of 2.135 billion roubles.

The criminal case initiated against a Duma Deputy of the Municipality Formation Mikhailovsk, accused of 21 sexual crimes against underage girls, was sent to the court.

Tarkhan Ozdoev, a suspect of murdering his cousin and her two daughters confessed of the crime and said that he found the women's behaviour as immoral.

Zalim Ulimbashev, one of the figurants in the case dealing with the attack on Nalchik in 2005, was released right in the courtroom under recognizance not to leave because of his health problems.

Operative agents managed to identify the suspect of shooting at passers-by in Moscow on December 17. It was a 26-year-old resident of Derbent, a city in Dagestan.

As a result of an explosion of a homemade explosive device near a trading house in the Dagestani capital Makhachkala, two persons were injured.

The powers of Alexander Yatsenko, Chairman of the Kuschevskiy District Court, have been terminated before term. This was announced today by Alexander Chernov, Chairman of the Krasnodar Territorial Court.

The Investigatory Committee has initiated prosecution of the inspectors, who had decided to release the detainees suspected of the mass brawl, in which Yegor Sviridov, a fan of the "Spartak" Football Club, was shot dead.

The law enforcement bodies of Georgia are now collecting evidences on abduction of Amiko Gulordava, a resident of Chkadua village, Zugdidi District.

Soon, psychologists and priests, having special training for working with prisoners, will appear in prisons and colonies of the Rostov Region. As stated today by Major-General of Internal Troops Sergey Izmalkov, head of the Rostov Department of the Chief Federal Penitentiary Service (known as "GUFSIN"), the decision was caused by suicides in prisons.

Local residents found a shot down militiaman's body in the forest of Kumtorkale district, near the settlement of Sernoe. On their own initiative they reported the accident to law enforcement bodies, a source in the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs informed.

During public prosecutor's inspection in the town of Argun (Chechnya) facts of illegal issue of 24 birth certificates by the registry office have been discovered. A maternity nurse of the municipal hospital has been acknowledged guilty of this swindle. 20 criminal proceedings were started on the fact at once.

Today in the afternoon, in the forest near the city of Baksan in a blindage (dugout), seven bodies with gunshot wounds were found. The casualties are hunters from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and the Stavropol Territory. Another two of them managed to escape from the hands of criminals.

Moscow militiamen have detained about ten natives of the Caucasus and confiscated traumatic weapons and prohibited items from them.