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The amount of 4.6 million roubles was allocated from the Chechen budget for the manufacture of orders and medals named after Akhmat Kadyrov. According to the materials of the public procurement website, the orders and medals are to be made of gold and precious stones.

Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan does not agree with the charge of embezzlement and treats a case against him as political persecution, his office reports.

The German Chancellor has confirmed that the decision of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to expel two Russian diplomats had to do with the Russia's unwillingness to help in the investigation of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Social network users have expressed bewilderment at the absence of real sanctions against Russia.

In 2015-2016, Ismail and Mukhtar Kurbanov from Dagestan were in their native village and did not fight in Syria, their advocate has stated in court and presented the confirming documents.

The Constitutional Court of Azerbaijan approved the decision of the Milli Majlis [the parliament of Azerbaijan] to recommend the President to dissolve the legislative body and announce early parliamentary elections.

The court pronounced a decision, according to which Rashid Chataev, a native of Chechnya, should return to his former wife their two daughters taken by him to Germany. Rashid Chataev hopes that in Grozny, the court will pronounce an opposite decision and leave the children with him.

Confirmations of the version on the involvement of the authorities of Russia or Chechnya in the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili can complicate the economic cooperation between Russia and Germany, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Today, the OSCE Mission has not registered any shooting attacks on the contact line between the troops of Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

On December 3, the Muftiate of Chechnya reported that in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, several young people repented of using psychotropic substances. The Chechen Muftiate also posted a photo of a "warning conversation" held by law enforcers for the detainees. Instagram users and residents of the Chechen Republic considered such a public humiliation as excessive.

A 23-year-old native of Grozny has been fighting in Syria on the side of militants since 2015, a source from the Chechen prosecutor's office has announced today the investigators' version.

After Ali Gasanov has been removed from heading the "ideological sphere" of Azerbaijan, the authorities' interference in the work of the media will not stop; however, the form of control will be less stringent, the journalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

On December 3, activists of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party held a protest action in the city of Zugdidi, outside the local office of the oppositional United National Movement (UNM). During the clashes, a policeman was injured.

On December 3, a roundtable, dated to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, was held in the Stepanakert House of Culture and Youth. The event was jointly organized by the "Decision" Civil Initiative and the Union of the Blind of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Andrei Buzin, one of the leaders of the "Golos" (Vote) movement in voters' defence, has received threats on behalf of residents of Dagestan, who were offended by some text ascribed to Mr Buzin.

The count of the detained opponents of the Armenian Minister of Education reached 24, but they were all released after drawing up protocols on disobeying policemen. Activists themselves have refused to plead guilty.

The authorities of Russia or Chechnya could hire a killer to murder Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, the German Prosecutor's Office suggests.

The Stavropol Territorial Court has dismissed a complaint about the arrest until February 10 of Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev, who was charged in a case on calls for riots and an attack on law enforcers.

Today, the Southern District Military Court has found Soslan Abubakarov, a native of Chechnya, guilty of aiding and abetting terrorism and sentenced him to 2.5 years of imprisonment.

Ismail and Mukhtar Kurbanov brothers from Dagestan, accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) and possession of explosives, led a peaceful lifestyle in Egypt and did not leave for Syria to participate in hostilities, their acquaintance testifies at trial.

Alexander Marchenko, a citizen of Ukraine, accused of purchasing devices for an antiaircraft guided missile system and kept under arrest at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar, is being persecuted for political reasons, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" announces today.