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Aslan Bartsits, Vice-President of Abkhazia, has announced that Raul Khadjimba, who resigned as a result of mass protests, will not take part in the early presidential election.

Political crisis in Abkhazia and resignation of President Khadjimba; Christmas celebrations in the regions of Southern Russia and the countries of Southern Caucasus; resonance from the incident with money thrown to a crowd by a Chechen blogger in Volgograd, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 6-12, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of January 6-12, 2020, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were registered. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

According to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), robbery was a motive for the attack on journalist Orkhan Djemal, cameraman Kirill Radchenko, and director Alexander Rastorguev in the Central African Republic (CAR). The ICRF does not consider a version on the planned murder, which the "Dossier" Centre insists on.

The motive for the assassination of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"), was his professional activities. No versions of religious motives and revenge are confirmed, reports Igor Krasnov, Deputy Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

There will be no USA-Iran combat actions; therefore, neither a flow of migrants, nor the activeness of Shiite groupings threaten Georgia, the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Ukrainian police have detained members of a criminal grouping, one of the members thereof is suspected of organizing an assassination attempt on a Chechen native, Adam Osmaev, and the murder of his wife Amina Okueva in the fall of 2017.

The President of Abkhazia, Raul Khadjimba, is resigning, Sergey Shamba, a former Prime Minister of Abkhazia, and Beslan Bartsits, the incumbent Premier, have assured protesters in Sukhumi.

Following their Chechen colleagues, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has posted a video with apologies of a resident of Khasavyurt for violating traffic rules, treating the imposed administrative fine as an insufficient educative measure.

A Private Arthur Arzumanyan was wounded by a sniper's shot and hospitalized, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Officials have named two new schools built in Gudermes and Shelkovskaya after the first president of Chechnya in order to win Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, local residents believe. In its turn, the Chechen Ministry of Education has noted these secondary schools have allowed eliminating three-shift attendance of classes in several other schools.

In Abkhazia, about 500 protesters have taken control over the presidential administration in Sukhumi, stating that opposition leaders should ensure the resignation of the incumbent president Raul Khadjimba.

The development plans of the Mini-Park "Ann's Garden" in the suburb of Tbilisi named Varketili have outraged local residents. They prevented the construction company from starting its works in the mini-park. The action ended in clashes with the police.

Rashid Nurgaliev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, and Raul Khadjimba, President of Abkhazia, have discussed the stabilization of the political situation in the republic. The Kremlin is interested in settling the crisis in Abkhazia peacefully, experts have noted.

Doctors of the Istanbul clinic have conducted a surgery on the Azerbaijani rights defender, Ogtai Gyulyalyev, who was injured in a road accident. Doctors find it difficult to name the time when he will regain consciousness, his son has informed.

On the anniversary of the restoration of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR), Ramzan Kadyrov cursed Joseph Stalin. The residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have recalled the ban on mourning events on the anniversary of deportation.

In 2019, 20 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Armenia and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) perished during performing their service; 29 other deaths were not related to the performance of service duties. Compared to 2018, the military death toll decreased by 22% the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has reported.

Despite the threat of pressure on the victim, a court in Khasavyurt has again placed the two law enforcers, accused of torturing Musa Aliev, a resident of Dagestan, under house arrest, said Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the Committee against Torture (CaT). He insists that for the sake of objectivity, the case should be considered by a Makhachkala court.

The threat to seize a car, and forcing drivers to clean streets is used nowhere in the world to improve road safety, Sergey Kanaev, the head of the "Russian Federation of Car Owners", has stated. In Chechnya, detained drivers often face violations of their rights, Ruslan Kutaev, a public activist, has noted.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Abkhazia has upheld the complaint submitted by Alkhas Kvitsiniya, the leader of the "Amtsakhara" Party, and appointed presidential election in the republic.