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Today, after Andrei Krasnenkov, Ramzan Kadyrov's lawyer, presented at the Court session an opinion to the respondents' complaint, the consideration of the cassation complaints lodged by Kadyrov and Oleg Orlov, head of the HRC "Memorial", against the decision of the Tver Court was postponed.

Residents of a number of small settlements located in the Staropromyslovskiy District of Chechen capital report about the check of their passports held there. There were no detainees, however, local residents got worried.

Today, on January 9, it is 52 years after passing decree on restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ChI ASSR), which was abolished in 1944 after deportation of Chechens and Ingushes to Kazakhstan and Middle Asia. Now, Chechnya marks this date as a national holiday.

At night on January 7, in the Urus-Martan District Chechnya, which is still under the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, armed people set on fire two small shops, which provoked fire in a number of kiosks located nearby. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from residents of the village of Gekhi, where the incident took place.

The authorities of the Chechen Republic plan to rebuild 13 major industrial enterprises by 2012, which will allow, under their forecasts, to employ about three thousand persons.

The inactivity of the investigatory bodies in searching the missing and kidnapped residents of Chechnya provokes protest actions. This is asserted by the Ombudsman of Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev in his letter to Yuri Chaika, General Public Prosecutor of Russia, where he asked Mr Chaika to interfere.

The statement of Chechen NGOs criticizing the work of the HRC "Memorial" is nothing more but a vivid confirmation of impossibility for human rights activists to work in this republic. Oleg Orlov, head of the Centre, told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The next session of the court on the case dealing with the attempt on Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadaev committed in March in Dubai will take place on January 7, 2010. This was stated by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow has extended by 3.5 months the custody of Nikita Tikhonov, accused of killing advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasia Baburova.

Ivona Kalishewska, an employee of the Polish edition "Kaukaz.net", asserts that the recent attempt of refugees from Georgia and Chechnya, accommodated in Polish refugee centres, to cross the German border had nothing to do with their "hard residence conditions" in Poland.

Many people who come to Poland from Caucasian republics have no grounds to claim for the status of refugees, as Ivona Kalishewska, an employee of the Polish edition "Kaukaz.net" believes.

Official outcomes of presidential election in Abkhazia; recognition of this republic and South Ossetia by the Republic of Nauru; violations of the freedom of speech in Azerbaijan; skirmishes in the contact line with Karabakh; terror acts in the south of Russia and return of the HRC "Memorial" to Chechnya, - look up these and other events in the review of the week of December 14-20 in Caucasian regions prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The Russian party is ready to consider the materials of the Dubai police on the case about the murder attempt on the ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion Sulim Yamadaev by means of own power agencies.

The today's consideration of the claim on defence of honour and dignity of President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against "Novaya Gazeta" was cancelled.