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Death of "Spartak" fan in Moscow and murders of students in Rostov-on-Don and Vladikavkaz again aggravate ethnic conflicts in Russia; Northern Caucasus sees incessant explosions, assaults and special operations, more and more heating the situation in the region; Georgian MPs criticize but adopt the "Freedom Charter" in the second reading, - look these and other events in the review of the week of December 6-12, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Yesterday, on December 14, accusations were presented to a participant of the mass brawl that burst our in the city centre. According to some detainees, national intolerance was the cause of the incident.

Yesterday, on December 13, in the evening, unidentified criminals opened fire at a Kizlyar OVD (Interior Division) officer, who died in place from gunshot wounds.

After consideration by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya of the cassation complaint lodged by Svetlana Estemirova, sister of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the case was remitted to the first instance court for removal of the existing procedural deficiencies.

An imam of the mosque of the village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent district, was shot down and died from the wounding in hospital

The second man, wounded when a car was shelled in central Krasnodar, has died in a hospital, without regaining consciousness.

One person was wounded during a shootout of unidentified persons with the militia in central Makhachkala; two persons were detained, a source from city's law enforcement bodies said.

Sergey Dzyuba, Deputy of the Kuschevskiy District Assembly, Krasnodar Territory, and Alexander Popov and Tatiana Alekseenko, residents of Krasnodar, are suspected of embezzling 107 million roubles from the OJSC "Rosselkhozbank".

Today, on December 13, the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow has sanctioned arrest of Arthur Arsibiev, 2, a native of Dagestan, an alleged participant of the mass brawl, where Yegor Sviridov, a football fan of "Spartak", was killed.

The Investigatory Committee (IC) for North Ossetia has established four more suspects, who took part in the brawl between students of the North-Caucasian State Steel Institute, as a result of which Kuanch Guliev, a student, died in hospital from received injuries.

As reported today by Vladimir Markin, spokesman of the Russian Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO), the special division on kidnappings of the ICPO's Department for the Chechen Republic is running over 120 criminal cases.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia has sentenced Ruslan Oligov, a resident of Ingushetia, accused of kidnapping two persons, to 10 years of imprisonment. By accumulation of charges, he will serve his term of 23 years.

The employees of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Khebda village, Shamil District of Dagestan, - Magomed Magomedov, Gamzat Nurudinov, Shamil Magomedov and Aliaskhab Nuruchinov, - who on July 20, 2010, beat Makhmoud Akhmedov, 14, have been charged under Part 2, Article 286 (abuse of official powers), of the Russian Criminal Code.

On December 12, Zaur Alibekov, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who disappeared on December 8, was found dead. As reported by his wife Gulnara Alibekova, her husband's body had numerous traces of torture and gunshot wounds.