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Special operations in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria; court's decision regarding Said Amirov's request to release him from prison; murder of a well-known businessman in Abkhazia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 11-17, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week of December 11-17, 2017, at least six persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, four were killed, and two others were injured. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Vladimir Putin has thanked US President Donald Trump for the CIA's information, which helped to prevent terror act in Saint Petersburg, the press service of the Russian President reported.

Shamil Omargadjiev, a native of Dagestan, and Aliskhan Esmurziev, a native of Ingushetia, have been arrested along with other figurants in the case on preparing a terror act in Saint Petersburg.

As of today, the petition demanding to defend the rights of Alexei Guriev, the former head of the Kochubeevo District GIBDD (traffic police) Division, has been signed by more than 146,000 people. Guriev was convicted for having punished for illegal driving a son of a top manager of a large oil company, the woman-author of the petition has stated.

Aligadji Khamutaev, shot dead during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Dagestan, was involved in eight murders and attack on the convoy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the police have stated.

Today, around 8:00 a.m. Moscow time, law enforcers started a shootout with alleged militants, who were hiding in a private house of the Dagestani village of Gubden.

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.