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The General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation has sent to the court the criminal case initiated against the natives of Chechnya Apti and Aisha (Aishat) Magmadov, accused of recruiting the citizen of Lithuania Egle Kusaite for committing a terror act in Russia.

The Warsaw District Court has ruled not to consider the lawsuit about extradition to Russia of Ahmed Zakaev, former head of the government of the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, who was put by Russia on the international wanted list, because he is not in Poland at the moment.

Today, the Dubai Court of Appeal has replaced the life imprisonment to figurants in the murder case of Sulim Yamadaev, Hero of Russia and a former commander of the "Vostok" (East) special battalion of the GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff) - the Iranian Makhdi Lorniya and citizens of Tajikistan Maksudzhon Ismatov - for 27 months of imprisonment.

Russia does not admit involvement of state officials in the death of two pupils from a shell in Chechnya in 2000. The Strasbourg Court (ECtHR) is accusing the Russian Federation of inefficient investigation of this case.

At its session held on December 22, the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic upheld the ruling of the first instance court regarding the cassation appeal filed by Svetlana Estemirova, sister of the assassinated human rights activist Natalia Estemirova.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has fined the Russian Government by 137,500 euros for disappearance of a resident of Chechnya and for ineffective investigation into the death of two children from Chechnya at missile attack.

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.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has considered the complaint lodged by relatives of two persons in Chechnya, who disappeared in 2002 and 2004, and ruled to penalize Russia by 148,000 euros.

Last night servicemen of federal forces were fired upon by unidentified persons in Urus-Martan district of Chechnya. One of the servicemen was taken to hospital. In Achkhoy-Martan district, too, operations are in process for search of the persons who in the evening of December, 15, fired upon a militia checkpoint, two officers of the Ministry of Interior Affairs were wounded as a result.

On December, 15, a memorial action timed to the Day of Memory of the journalists who perished carrying out their professional duty passed off in front of Press House in Journalists' public garden in the capital of Chechnya. The action with the participation of representatives of republican mass media, intelligentsia, the clergy, youth and students' organizations was arranged by the Ministry of External Relations, National Policy, Press and Information of Chechnya.

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.

European Commission has decided to allot financial aid to a sum of two million euros to 45 thousand people who have suffered from Chechen confrontation.

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.

Tu-154 crash questions the work of "Dagestani Airlines"; OSCE summit in Astana failed to help in settling conflicts in Southern Caucasus; cities of Southern Russia start getting ready to receive 2018 World Football Cup matches, - look these and other events in the review of the week of November 29-December 5, 2010, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".