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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced a decision to pay 73,649 US dollars to the complainants in the case "Chyragov and Others vs. Armenia", who lost their housing during the Karabakh conflict.

The absence of mass protests in Azerbaijan after the US has recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is connected with the policy of Baku, forced to manoeuvre between the Muslim world and the arms supply partnership. This opinion was expressed by political analysts and journalists questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

Soldier Arthur Danielyan blew himself up on a mine while being on duty at the border. This was reported by Artsrun Ovannisyan, the spokesman for the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

In the capital of Chechnya, experts have defused an unexploded bomb, which had been lying underground for more than 20 years, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reported.

The personnel of the military police battalion of the Southern Military District, engaged in performing tasks in Syria, arrived in the airport of Makhachkala, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

Soldier Narek Adibekyan got a fatal wound, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

Pop singer Aza Bataeva was left in the wanted list on suspicion of involvement in Syrian armed formations, since information about her death reported by the singer's relatives had not been confirmed. This was reported by a source of the "Caucasian Knot" from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

On December 11, Makhachkala hosted a ceremony to rebury the remains of Sergeant Mukhamed Kazbekov, killed in battles near Leningrad during World War II.

The monument to Fazu Alieva, the people's poetess of Dagestan, was opened in Friendship Park in the capital of the republic.

The Comedy Club Production Company and Ekaterina Skulkina, an actress, have apologized for the show fragment, where one of the actresses played the role of an escort girl from Ingushetia. After the show was broadcast in social networks, users began threatening Comedy Woman actresses.

About 20 women, protesting at the US Embassy to Azerbaijan have condemned the decision of US President Donald Trump to treat Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The participants in the action organized by the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party outside the Ukrainian Embassy in Tbilisi, demanded from Kiev to "act fairly" and release the detained former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Students of a capital higher educational institution demanded from a young man to publicly apologize for his offensive, in their opinion, comments about Caucasian girls posted on social networks. On December 10, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Union of Chechen Youth reacted to the published video record of the incident.

Today, Grozny will host a match between the local "Akhmat" FC and the team of the "Zenith" FC from Saint Petersburg. Local students have reported that the higher educational institutions' administrations obliged them to appear at the stadium.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has appealed to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan with requests to verify information about an attempt to kidnap a son of Nimatulla Radjabov, the Imam of the Makhachkala Salafi mosque.

Verdict in the case against the gang of Rostov Amazons; special operation in Stavropol; detention of Mikhail Saakashvili in Ukraine; opening of a new airport near Rostov-on-Don; detention of Tuapse Mayor Alexander Chekhov, –see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 4-10, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

Starting from 2018, the Ingush Ministry for Public Health plans to oblige people before getting married to get be tested on the presence or absence of HIV. This was reported by Marem Arpakhanova, Ingush Minister for Public Health.

During the week of December 4-10, 2017, at least three persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Azerbaijan has failed so far to show any progress in ensuring democratic freedoms, activists said on the International Human Rights Day. They pointed to a large number of political prisoners and absence of reforms in the judicial system.

Detentions of natives from the republics of Northern Caucasus were held in Istanbul and a number of other cities of Turkey. It is known at least about 22 detainees, but they are under no threat of extradition to Russia, Ali Viskhadjiev, the head of the organization "Kavkazder", has stated.