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The authorities and the judicial system of Armenia are responsible for the deterioration of the condition of Manvel Grigoryan, a former member of the Armenian parliament, who is not allowed to be treated abroad, the defence claims.

The German law enforcement authorities conducted a series of searches in a case on preparation of a terror act. According to the preliminary information, three migrants from Chechnya were detained.

Akhmed Nalgiev, a resident of Magas, refused to admit to participating in an unsanctioned rally and rejected the charge with assaulting two law enforcers. The man claims that the criminal proceedings against him deprived him of his job and damaged his reputation.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested after disseminating on social networks a video criticizing the policeman. Other two PFPA's activists were fined. In 2019, 98 members were subjected to administrative arrests, the PFPA reports.

Family members of Khasan Zyazikov, an arrested Ingush activist, found themselves in distress, brothers of the activist said.

On the 30th anniversary of the Baku pogroms, residents of Yerevan paid tribute to victims of the tragedy. Refugees from Baku told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about their relatives who were killed during those tragic events.

The public interest in the case of arrested Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev is quite high, note participants in a series of pickets in Makhachkala. According to them, for sympathizers of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a support campaign on social networks can become an alternative to participating in street actions of protest.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan promised Anar Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the "Criminal.az" website, to find the people who disseminated false information about the journalist on social networks.

The Georgian police suspected Mikhail Saakashvili of involvement in an attempt to overthrow the government on the basis of his statement that it was possible to achieve a "regime fall" in the summer of 2019.

Political crises and frequent presidential elections spoil the tourist image of Abkhazia and prevent it from developing amid high unemployment and low salaries, believe residents of Sukhumi, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Musa Pliev and Eliskhan Azhigov, participants of a rally in Magas, who had not been earlier released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Stavropol Territory despite the expiration of the sentences, were set free.

A resident of Chechnya made public a video in which he apologized for posting a video with a GIBDD (road police) car which drove into a ditch. Instagram users and residents of Chechnya found it absurd to force a person to apologize for a usual street video.

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.