Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on December 8, 2005
* The Supreme Court of Russia upheld a 15-year prison sentence handed down to Issa Gaparkhoyev convicted of carrying out a terrorist attack in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia that left five soldiers dead in July 2003
* A spokesperson from the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said a train had been blown up in Daghestan, no one was hurt
* Chechnya's Interior Ministry said six police officers had received gunshot wounds in the republic's capital Grozny last night
* Employees of the military commandant's office in Chechnya discovered and defused an explosive device in the republic's Kurchaloi district
* Police discovered an arms cache in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district
* The North Ossetian Supreme Court postponed a regular hearing of the case of Nurpashi Kulayev, charged with participating in the terrorist attack on a school in the republic's capital Beslan in September 2004
* A Russian Federal Security Service official said seventeen new border outposts would be commissioned in the North Caucasus in 2005
