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On December 16, in the outskirt of Anatoly Sobino Park, in the Zheleznodorozhny District of Rostov-on-Don, a small chapel, in the place of which they had planned to build a church, was burnt down. Besides, the temporary building of the Sunday School was blitzed.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has revealed six Internet resources with materials treated as insults to believers' feelings. Lawsuits have been lodged to the court of Grozny demanding to restrict access to these websites.

The village of Gubden, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, for the second time since the start of the year, has become the venue of a counterterrorist operation (CTO). The Karabudakhkent District as such gets into law enforcers' reports about the introduction of the CTO regime at least for the third time in 2017.

Demolition of houses in Shali is needed to expand the territory around the high-rise complex, the authorities have explained. People have to live with their relatives in anticipation of the promised new housing, locals complain.

A ten-year-old boy and an eight-year-old girl, who had been brought by their father to Syria, were delivered to Grozny last night and handed over to their relatives.

The counter-terrorist operation (CTO), held in the Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where a shootout with policemen took place on December 15, is over, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has stated.

The Branch for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has appealed to the republic's Supreme Court (SC) with a demand to recognize the public organization "Volny Aul" (Free Village) as extremist and to liquidate it. The leaders of the organization held unsanctioned actions on the land issue, the MoJ asserts.

Two special troop's fighters received contusions during the armed clash in the Urvan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where a militant was killed, a law enforcement source has stated.

Policemen examined the parishioners of the mosque in Omarov Street in Makhachkala, who gathered for their Friday prayers, eyewitnesses report. They detained two or three persons, who later were released, the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

Relatives believe that law enforcers were involved in disappearance of a Chechen teenager, whose brother went to Syria. Social groups associated with the police report that the teenager is involved in preparing terror acts.

Policemen have killed a man who opened fire on them, a law enforcement source of Kabardino-Balkaria has reported.

Aza Bataeva, a singer from Chechnya, who has presumably perished in Iraq, wanted to return to her homeland, her acquaintance has told.

The judge refused to grant the motion of the defence of the former Makhachkala Mayor to release him from colony for health reasons.

On December 14-15, Armenian servicemen used large-calibre machine guns during shelling, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

More than 200 artillerymen took part in combat firing on conditional terrorists in the mountainous part of Dagestan.

The opening of election officers in Dagestan and Ingushetia has not taken place and is not planned, the Moscow's office of Ksenia Sobchak has reported. No information about any plans to open offices in these republics has been received, said Anastasia Shevchenko, the head of the Sobchak's office in Rostov-on-Don.

Prison doctors have concluded that Said Amirov can stay in colony, his advocate Vladimir Postanyuk reports. On the eve of the fateful judgment for Amirov, the "Caucasian Knot" has audited his former empire.

Top performers of the TNT TV Channel have recorded a video, in which they apologize to Ingush people for the fourth time for their sketch in the Comedy Woman programme.

The head of Chechnya should continue working towards returning Russian women and children from Syria, said Vladimir Putin. The authorities of Chechnya plan to return 150 Russian citizens more from Syria and Iraq.

The Sol-Iletsk District Court has dismissed the motion on releasing Said Amirov from the colony for health reasons.