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The craft of the "Dagestan Airlines", which took off today from Moscow's "Vnukovo" Airport to Makhachkala, made an emergency landing in "Domodedovo" after failure of all three engines. Two persons perished and 56 more were wounded.

The building of a customs checkpoint, located in Adzharia in the border of Georgia with Turkey, collapsed and injured four persons.

Junior Sergeant Alexei Chepurnoy, a deputy platoon commander of one of motorized companies, disappeared this morning from the disposition of the motorized infantry unit of the 4th military base of Tskhinvali.

Twelve persons were injured in a collision of a passenger bus and a Gazel, which occurred around 10:00 a.m. Moscow time in the Federal Highway "Kavkaz" near the city of Izberbash in Dagestan. They all were taken to the Izberbash city hospital.

The Nazran District Court of Ingushetia has sentenced Rustam Dzeitov, a supposed member of an illegal armed formation (IAF) to 2.5 years of imprisonment in a minimum security penal colony. This was reported by the press service of the local FSB office.

A decade aimed to draw more attention to people with disabilities was launched in Kabardino-Balkaria. On December 3, activists of youth organizations were giving white ribbons to passers-by in the streets as a sign of willingness to help people with disabilities.

Most probably, the car of Hussein Shadiev, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Serdalo", was shelled by militants, as Andrei Zhulyabin, head of the division for supervising investigation, inquiry and operative search of the prosecutor's office of Ingushetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

As reported on December 3 by the press service of the Supreme Court (SC) of Karachay-Cherkessia, the murder case of Ismail Bostanov, deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Karachay-Cherkessia and Stavropol Territory, underwent its first public hearing.

The deadlock is still present in negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; the statement adopted in Astana will hardly change it: the conflicting parties stick to opposing viewpoints, Armenian experts say.

Yesterday, on December 2, in the outskirt of the capital of Dagestan, unidentified persons shelled three militiamen of the "Almaz-240" unit. In the skirmish that followed one of the attackers was supposedly wounded. In their escape from the chase, the criminals consistently hijacked four cars.

President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov addressed the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department) asking not to give any favours to perpetrators in the traffic accident with participation of a car registered at the Ingush Parliament. It has been already established that the car was used not for its destination.

The investigation into the murder of Umar Israilov, ex-guard of Chechen President, was held masterly; and the trial is held in accordance with international standards, said Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, a member of the international coalition of human rights organizations, which monitors this trial.

The Russia's Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika has ordered, after detection of violations admitted at the inquiry of the massacre in Kuschevskaya, to check the legality of accounting and registration of crimes everywhere across the country, giving special attention to facts of concealing serious crimes, Marina Gridneva, spokesperson of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), said today.

Yesterday, on December 2, Moscow announced the results of the major literary award of the country - the "Russian Booker Prize". The list of six top nominees included the writer from Chechnya German Sadulaev.

The interregional public movement under the motto "All the persons are equal before the law and court" is formed in the Krasnodar Territory; this was reported by its organizers.