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Today, the Astrakhan Regional Court has reduced the prison term of the temporarily dismissed Astrakhan Mayor Mikhail Stolyarov, convicted of bribery, from 10 to 9 years.

The Attorney Office of the United States has disagreed with the petition lodged by the advocates of the ethnic Chechen Johar Tsarnaev, who is accused of organizing the terror act at the Boston Marathon, to postpone the trial until September 2015.

Today, the student Magomed Aliev, accused of promoting terrorism, was moved from the hospital to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Stavropol, the lawyer Alieva told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. His relatives fear that his health condition may worsen.

Levon Airapetyan, a businessmen and notable member of the Armenian Diaspora in Russia, who is kept under home arrest in Moscow as a figurant in the "Bashneft" case, was urgently hospitalized.

The verdict to figurants in the case of the attack on Nalchik was a result of torture and a miscarriage of justice, says the human rights organization Amnesty International (AI). Human Rights Watch (HRW) have accused Russian authorities of their refusal to investigate the evidence of facts of torture.

Magomed Karsamov, a native of the Chechen Republic, has disappeared under unclear circumstances in Moscow. According to his relatives, the young man was kidnapped by law enforcers

At night on December 21, the house of the family of the Chechen field commander Aslambek Vadalov in the village of Ishkhoy-Yurt, Gudermes District of Chechnya, was demolished by power agents with the help of bulldozers, local residents report.

Alexander Valov, the owner of the website "BlogSochi", has filed a complaint against the decision of the magistrate judge, under which he had served five days in jail. The consideration of the complaint is scheduled for December 24.

The advocates of Johar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, who is accused of organizing the terror act at the Boston Marathon run, have petitioned to postpone the start of the trial until September 2015.

This afternoon, Zurab Bisiev, who was wounded in the militants' attack on Grozny, has died at the Moscow MIA hospital. Thus, the number of law enforcers lost in the above attack has reached 15.

The Khasavyurt City Court has dismissed the lawsuit on protection of honour and dignity put forward by the Dagestani MIA Interior Ministry against the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova.

Magomed Aushev, a resident of the Ingush village of Ekazhevo, Nazran District, detained by policemen, was tortured and beaten, his brother Murad Aushev reported today.

As of December 23, in Chechnya, law enforcers demolished 15 houses of militants' relatives, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported today, and confirmed, in particular, the data of the "Caucasian Knot" about burning down of a militant's family house in the Gudermes District.

All defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik in October 2005 have been found guilty. Five of them received life sentences, and three were released in the courtroom, because their appointed punishment has expired, while they were in custody.

Last night the administration head of the village of Psedakh, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, was robbed in his house. The attack was committed by masked men, who fled from the crime scene in a car, which is on the balance sheet of the village administration.