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23:50, 8 December 2011
In Sochi, a police officer was sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment for beating a detainee.
23:40, 8 December 2011
Journalists of the Azerbaijani oppositional newspaper "Khural" reported on threats coming to their address from unidentified persons.
23:20, 8 December 2011
Intigam Aliev, the well-known Azerbaijani human rights defender and lawyer, the head of the Society of Legal Education, claims that on December 7 he had been detained at the Istanbul airport and subjected to pressure and violence by Turkish policemen. According to Intigam Aliev, he was released and deported to Baku only after intermediation of international human rights organizations.
23:10, 8 December 2011
The website of the Association "Golos" (Vote), which observed the elections of deputies to the State Duma of the Russian Federation and which was attacked by hackers on the day of the parliamentary elections, was fully re-opened.
23:00, 8 December 2011
On December 7, the city of Cannes hosted the annual awards ceremony of the American Academy of Tourism and Services. Georgia was represented by Adzharia, which won in three nominations at once.
22:50, 8 December 2011
The information that one of the units of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is quartered in Moscow is absolute disinformation and falseness. This was reported by the republic's law enforcement agencies.
22:20, 8 December 2011
On December 7, in the capital of Dagestan, unidentified armed men kidnapped Rashid Shuaibov, a resident of Makhachkala, and his whereabouts is still unknown. This was reported by his sister Subigat Gasanova, a resident of Makhachkala.
22:00, 8 December 2011
On December 8, Soslan Gabuev, a staff member of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of South Ossetia, got a knife wound during an opposition rally in the city of Tskhinvali. This was reported by Uruzmag Margiev, the deputy head of the city GOVD (Chief Interior Division).
21:00, 8 December 2011
Starting from December 6, in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, 170 persons, including 68 children, were hospitalized with a diagnosis of "acute gastroenterocolitis", "food toxic infection". The infection source is still unidentified: the samples of water showed its compliance with the standard.
19:00, 8 December 2011
In Moscow, Triumphal Square hosted an unsanctioned rally of people who wanted to express their discontent with the results of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the Sixth Convocation. According to the preliminary information of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), about 30 persons were detained during the rally; the opposition reports that policemen detained 70 persons.
18:00, 8 December 2011
On December 4, unidentified persons kidnapped Magomed Mutalibov, born in 1985, a resident of the Suleiman-Stalskiy District of Dagestan. According to his brother Nazim Mutalibov, power agents are involved in the kidnapping.
23:00, 7 December 2011
At night on December 6, the doors of two rooms of the city office of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), located on the ground floor of the five-storey apartment building at 13 Gorky Lane, were broken. Copies of protocols of the Sochi polling stations at the December 4 State Duma elections were stolen from the office.
22:40, 7 December 2011
The Georgian MPs have been presented a new bill, under which the country will have an open-type correction facility. As stated by Khatuna Kalmakhelidze, Minister for Correction, Probation and Legal Assistance of Georgia, it would be "a prison without bars."
22:40, 7 December 2011
Today, the Makhachkala city commission for helping those, who have decided to stop their terrorist and extremist activities, in adapting to peaceful life, has decided to support the appeal of five residents of Dagestan, who asked to allow them to serve their prison terms in the territory of the republic.
22:30, 7 December 2011
The aim of the project "Preventive Reaction Group" (PRG) is to prevent threats to journalists and investigate cases of violence applied against them, and unjustified prosecution of journalists. Two groups have been formed so far, engaged in the inquiry into the murder of journalist Rafig Tagi and the arrest of the editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper Avaz Zeinalov.