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The journalist Afghan Mukhtarly, who is in custody in Azerbaijan, could not take part in the funeral of his relatives that took place on January 1. Today, the court refused to release him temporarily for the funeral feast, his advocate has stated.

Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili believes the decision of the Tbilisi City Court, which sentenced him to three years of imprisonment for abuse of power, contradicts international norms and common sense.

For a day, in Krasnodar, more than 1000 people signed a petition with the demand to heads of investigating bodies and the Kuban Governor to take control over the investigation into the an attack on ecologist Andrei Rudomakha.

The Georgian Court has found former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili guilty of abuse of power when pardoning the persons sentenced in the case on murder of businessman Sandro Girgvliani.

The Ministry for Northern Caucasus Affairs is engaged in development of a combined tourist card to allow tourists to visit at once several resorts of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD). This has been reported today by Odes Baisultanov, First Deputy Minister for Northern Caucasus Affairs.

In Adygea, a resident of the Kirov farm yard located in the Tashekhabl District found a bomb of World War II (WWII), the National Guard of Russia reported.

The regions of the Southern Federal District (SFD) will remember the year of 2017 by numerous protest actions, large-scale fires in the Rostov and Volgograd Regions, launch of a railway to bypass Ukraine, verdicts in cases of resonant crimes, and attacks on law enforcers. The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the results of 2017 in six regions of Southern Russia.

Gezyal Bairamly, Deputy Chair of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), accused of contraband, told today at the court, how the money was planted on her. She treats her prosecution as a revenge for her political and human rights activities.

Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was wounded by law enforcers in the Pankisi Gorge, had met with Akhmed Chataev in Tbilisi; and a banking contract to his name was found in Chataev's apartment, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has stated today.

Georgia, which had purchased 100 million cubic meters of natural gas from Russia before March 2017, has no plans to buy it in 2018, the "Georgiainform" has reported today, citing Dmitry Kumsishvili, the Georgia's Minister of Economy.

After the bad weather, which set on in Georgia on January 1, the Georgian Military Road is now open for all types of vehicles.

On New Year night, an employee of one of the federal agencies was shooting in the air with his colleagues and mortally wounded a minor girl in Chechnya, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

A doctors' concilium has agreed to allow treatment of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was wounded during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge, abroad, on which his relatives insist, Zaza Lurmsmanishvili, a hospital spokesman, has stated.

At detention attempt, the suspect of assassinating the head of the police station in the village of Avtury rendered resistance and was shot dead by return fire, Ruslan Alkhanov, the Chechen Interior Minister, has stated.

The past year in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) will be remembered by truckers' protests, change of Dagestani leadership, persecutions of gays in Chechnya and armed clashes of law enforces with militants. The "Caucasian Knot" has summed up the most significant events in Northern Caucasus.

On January 3, Roman Gabaev told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on December 22, he was walking along Sochi with his wife and two friends on his wedding day. They were approached by a law enforcer and a Cossack, who accused them of drinking alcohol.

A court in Kiev has upheld the decision of the State Migration Service (SMS) that the former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili should not have the refugee status in Ukraine.

More than 600 people have visited the exhibition of Alan gold jewellery, opened today at the National Museum of North Ossetia. The jewellery is shown for the first time.

Abubakar Ustarkhanov, the police head of the village of Avtury in the Shali District of Chechnya, has been shot dead today in his head, a law enforcement source has reported.

The Dean's Office of a Department of a Stavropol higher school has asked students to participate in collecting signatures in support of Vladimir Putin; in the absence of volunteers, groups wardens are threatened to enrol students compulsorily, Valery Ledovsky, the head of the "Yabloko" Party Branch in the Stavropol Territory, has reported.