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In front of the FSB building in Astrakhan, activists have held two solo pickets demanding to stop politically motivated persecutions and respect the Constitution's article on the freedom of assembly.

The US Department of the Treasury has put Ramzan Kadyrov on the "Magnitsky" sanctions list, calling him responsible for extrajudicial executions, torture and other human rights violations in Chechnya.

Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova reported she had to leave the Baku theatre building after the threats to cancel the performance if she stayed among spectators.

In Dagestan, the Prosecutor's Office has claimed that extremist books are being kept in a mosque building in the Chontaul village and filed a lawsuit to court with a request to close the mosque.

In the morning on December 17, in Grozny, law enforcers detained at a supermarket exit two men who had just bought several bottles of beer and vodka and took them away to the city. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Murad, who witnessed an incident.

A teenager is wanted as a disappeared person, and the information about his involvement in preparation of terror acts was published by mistake, the law enforcement bodies explained to the schoolboy's relatives.

Today, Ruslan Kutaev, the chair of the Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus, has been released from a penal colony in Chechnya. This has been reported by one of the convict's relatives.

An improvised explosive device (IED) has been found in an apartment rented by a suspect killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Stavropol.

In 2017, France has dramatically changed its attitude towards people from Chechnya requesting political refuge. Sasha Koulaeva, the head of Eastern Europe-Central Asia Desk at the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), reported about 10 people from Chechnya who face extradition only for suspicion of being involved in radical groupings.

Harlem Désir, the OSCE Representative on Media Freedom, has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to reconsider the verdict to Aziz Orudjev, the executive director of the "Kanal-13" TV Channel.

Tonight, the tenants of the apartment building in the south-western area of Stavropol were evacuated after an explosion that occurred in one of the apartments.

On December 19, the Krasnodar Territorial Court cancelled the judgement of the Timashevsk District Court, which found the information about joint travels posted on the website of the BlaBlaCar service to be prohibited.

This evening, Baku policemen have detained Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the "Khural" newspaper. On his Facebook page, the journalist was broadcasting the blocking of the Binagadi Highway, his wife, Malakhat Gisuri, also a journalist, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The project of the "Kakheti Regional Development Foundation" (KRDF) has helped women from the Pankisi Gorge to master crafts, organize businesses and learn to protect their rights.

Shooting from the territory of Georgia has been fixed at the border; such cases lead to conflict escalation, the spokesman of South Ossetia has stated at the meeting in Ergneti.

Darya Polyudova was detained today at her home in the village of Poltavskaya on charges of petty hooliganism. Another activist, Victor Chirikov, was detained near his house in Krasnodar on a similar charge.

130 residents of the Dagestani settlement of Vremenny have appealed to the Russian Government, asking to order to pay compensations for their houses destroyed during the special operation, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated today.

In Iraq, a group of 41 Russian citizens has been discovered in a refugee camp. This has been told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official from the Chechen leader and government administration.

Ilyas Sharipov, killed at night during a special operation in the Gumbet District, was a brother of Maryam Sharipova, who blew herself up in the Moscow metro in 2010, reported a source from the law enforcement bodies.

Public gratitude expressed by Vladimir Putin for the CIA's help in prevention of terror acts, which were allegedly plotted also by natives of Dagestan and Ingushetia, speaks about strengthening of cooperation between Russia and the United States. This opinion has been voiced by Mikhail Roschin. Alexander Perendjiev suggests there is hardly any close cooperation between the secret services.