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The residents of Grozny, who have debts on paying utility bills, received anonymous notifications about the upcoming seizure of their housing facilities for debt. However, lawyers have stated that such papers have no legal force and are intended to intimidate the debtors.

During the week of December 31, 2018, to January 6, 2019, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus two persons suffered: one person was killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

During the period from December 30, 2018, to January 5, 2019, Azerbaijani soldiers fired 1000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the latter has stated.

On January 3, the inscription on the marble slab of the monument to the soldiers of the Caucasian Islamic Army erected in the Dagestan village of Agachaul was changed without authors' consent, members of seven Kumyk organizations have stated. They demanded to restore the original text.

A resident of Batumi hospitalized on January 4 after roof collapse because of a strong wind has died in hospital. Another victim was operated on; his life is out of danger.

After examination at the Moscow Medical Centre, 30 children brought from the Middle East were handed over to their relatives, Anna Kuznetsova, the Russian Children's Ombudsperson, has informed today.

The three-year-old child, who received a gunshot wound on the New Year's Eve, has died today in a Derbent hospital.

An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), a member of the board of the "Musavat" Party and the head of the Centre for the Monitoring Political Prisoners have joined the hunger strike of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov, demanding to release him from custody.

During the last 24 hours, Armenian militaries violated the truce on the troops contact line for at least 23 times, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan.

Part of the roof of a multi-storey building collapsed and fell to the ground during a strong wind in Batumi; two passers-by were injured and taken to hospital.

A Grozny cinema has stopped selling tickets to the film about the BTS Korean pop group against the background of a similar decision taken in Makhachkala.

The return of the Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov to Russia threatens him with torture and unfair persecution, says the statement of the "Amnesty International" (AI), an international human rights organization.

The US PEN International (PEN America) has linked the new criminal case against the blogger Mekhman Guseinov with the suppression of the dissent in Azerbaijan. Guseinov, who is on hunger strike at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) in protest against the new indictment, needs an urgent surgery, Shakhla Gumbatova, his advocate, has stated today.

Chechnya and Ingushetia have held events in memory of Saint Kunta-haji Kishiev on the occasion of the 155th anniversary of his deportation. According to the Ingush authorities and the Chechen clergy, several thousand people took part in events. Residents of Chechnya said that Imams had warned them about the must to participate in religious ceremonies.

Five residents of Chechnya, whose car was stopped by law enforcers at the entrance to Vladikavkaz, have complained about the nationality-based prejudiced attitude.

Today, a court in Baku has found eight participants of the action in support of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov to be infringers of the rules of holding meetings. The activists themselves disagree with the judgement.

Today, a large pavilion has burned down at the Upper Marketplace in Pyatigorsk. There were no victims. According to eyewitnesses, the fire-fighting teams could not drive to the venue because of concrete blocks.

The Armenian party has asked to extradite Narek Sargsyan, who was detained in Prague within the case of possessing narcotic drugs and firearms, the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) announced on January 3.

Over the week, after returning to Chechnya, two participants of all-Russian contests received Mercedes cars from the Kadyrov Foundation. Residents of the subsidized republic recognized the merits of the contestants, but criticized the authorities of Chechnya for such expensive gifts.

Positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in two border villages, have been shelled, reports today the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan.