Below is a summary of the main security-related events in the North Caucasus on December 28, 2005
* Members of parliament listened to Alexander Torshin, the chairman of the federal parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school siege, deliver a report on the commission's work from September 2004 to December 2005
* Alexander Torshin, the chairman of the federal parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school siege, said notorious terrorist leaders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov had led the preparation for the school siege in Beslan in September 2004
* Torshin said 31 terrorists had been killed during a hostage release operation in September 2004, and only one, Nurpashi Kulayev, had been taken alive
* A court in Chechnya sentenced a Russian Interior Ministry serviceman who ran over a woman while driving an APC in October to a year of service in a disciplinary battalion
* Dmitry Kozak, the presidential envoy to the Southern Federal District, said restoration of the Chechen capital of Grozny would start in spring 2006
* Alexander Torshin, the chairman of the federal parliamentary commission investigating the Beslan school siege, said tanks opened fire on the school only after all hostages had been evacuated
* Daghestani border officials said an explosive device had gone off in the city of Khasavyurt when two police patrol cars were passing, no one was hurt
* Torshin, a deputy speaker of the upper house of parliament, said law enforcement officials in the Russian republics of Ingushetia and North Ossetia had been negligent and careless, making it possible for terrorists to seize the school
* Torshin said the gang that seized hostages in the school had been formed in Ingushetia and that Ingush security services had failed to prevent the attack
* Chechen police said a suspected militant had been detained in the republic's Shali district
* Torshin said the Federal Security Service units' use of flamethrowers could not have caused a fire in the school building
* The southern regional office of the Emergency Situations Ministry said 20 residents of Chechnya, including 14 children, hospitalized last week for psycho-emotional stress, had been released from a hospital in the Shelkovskaya district
* Torshin said the federal operation carried out during the Beslan school siege had saved 73% of hostages
* Torshin said terrorists had had a backup plan to seize another school in the republic of Ingushetia and that four out of 11 backup terrorists had been arrested
