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In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from December 24 to December 30, 2012, at least 19 people were affected. Of them, 15 persons were lost, and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and on information from other open sources.

In Grozny, near the marketplace "Berkat", armed men in masks and camouflage tried to kidnap a local resident, Said Umarov, a market employee, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The authorities imposed a complete ban on felling spruce and pine trees in Chechnya; the forests of these trees are guarded round the clock, said the republic's Department of Forestry. However, people can easily by live spruces in the streets of major cities and towns; they are brought to Chechnya from neighbouring regions.

The migrants from Chechnya living in the temporary accommodation centre (TAC) "Promzhilbaza" in the city of Karabulak, as well as in the private sector in districts of Ingushetia, have come to Moscow to meet officials of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation and the Federal Migration Service. They hope that the meetings will speed up the solution of their housing problems.

On December 17-23, 2013, at least 10 persons suffered in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; of them, three people were killed and seven wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian demands from Sweden to ban the operation of the Sweden-based website "Kavkaz-Centre" and states that the extremist organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir" operates in this country.

In the Moscow City Court, at the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, the defence has presented the results of the examination that had failed to reveal any biological traces of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov on the exhibits, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the defence of the figurant in the murder case of the journalist of "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya has appealed against the sentence of the Moscow City Court (MCC) against Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, who received 11 years of colony, said Karen Nersisyan, the lawyer of the convict.

Launch of reconstructed Baksan HPP in Kabardino-Balkaria; departure from Russia of an activist-ecologist from the Krasnodar Territory with the aim to seek political asylum in another country; scandal around the change of the name of a district newspaper in Chechnya and decision of the ECtHR on disappearance of eight residents of the republic; signing an agreement on simplified entry visas for citizens of Armenia to EU countries; protest action in the context of the murder of a resident of Nevinnomyssk, resignation of Mayor of Zheleznovodsk and two ministers of the Stavropol Territory, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of December 17-23, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The questions asked on behalf of the newspaper "Kadyrov's Way" at a press conference of Vladimir Putin had been carefully thought over and were purely neutral; while the decision to close the newspaper was, most likely, caused by journalists' mockeries over the name of the paper, said Bilkhis Dudaeva, the editor-in-chief of the now closed edition.

The Chechen newspaper "Kadyrov's Way", which was closed today after the press conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was initially presented by local officials at a celebration ceremony of the 60th birthday of the late Akhmad Kadyrov, the former head of the region, in August 2011.

The session of the Tbilisi City Court, scheduled for December 19, on the case of Akhmed Chataev, a native of Chechnya and a Russian citizen, who was detained in a special operation in Lopota Gorge, did not take place due to the failure of the prosecutor to summon his witnesses.

A bridge across the Yassa (Aksay) River is being built in the mountainous Vedeno District of Chechnya, near the village of Dargo. The old bridge was destroyed in the course of the first military campaign in the country, said the Ministry of Motor Roads of Chechnya. The commissioning of the new bridge is scheduled for 2013.

At the Moscow City Court (MCC), where today the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov was continued, the advocate of the defendant Yusup Temerkhanov has reported about an incident in Chechnya, which was treated by him as an act of intimidation intended to press the relatives of his client and the defendant himself.

As reported by the information centre of the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), the death toll of the special operation conducted on December 19 in Nazran included two militant leaders Ayub Kholadov and Movsar Katsiev, and a militant Khamzat Pugoev from Katsiev's grouping.