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During the week of December 12-18, 2016, 15 persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, 11 were killed, and four others were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the post-Soviet space, labour migration has become a usual way of life for millions of people. Of them, a large part is represented by natives of the South Caucasian countries. Meanwhile, Russia demonstrates tough approach to the status of migrants, while the countries, which natives leave them in search for jobs, do too little to protect their citizens abroad. This was announced by the Anti-Discrimination Centre "Memorial".

While reporting the results of the completed special operation, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that in Grozny, seven militants were killed, four others were detained.

Ibragim Mazhaev, an 18-year-old man involved in an attack on policemen, was killed during a special operation held in the Groznyvillage of Andreevskaya Dolina. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement authorities.

Four policemen were killed by suspects involved in an attack on policemen in Grozny. The police launched the interception plan in the city. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the law enforcement authorities. According to law enforcers, they managed to cordon off a group of militants in the Staropromyslovsky District.

The shootout of December 17 at the centre of Grozny has become at least the fourth since early 2016 and the seventh since early 2015 armed clash between law enforcers and militants in Chechnya. As a result of those seven incidents, 22 people, declared militants, were killed and two others were injured, and 21 law enforcers were wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot". For the fourth year in a row, in December, in southern regions of Russia, militants declare themselves loud attacks and terror acts.

Rustam Aptaev, a 36-year-old resident of Grozny, detained on December 13 by believers of a mosque in the village of Ali-Yurt in Ingushetia for the attempted murder of Isa Tsechoev, a well-known Islamic preacher, and brought to a police station, is being subjected to torture, since law enforcers force him to incriminate himself. This was reported by detainee's defenders and relatives.

As a result of a shootout in Grozny, four militants were killed and two others were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. Besides, an inspector of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) was injured. This was reported by Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Chechnya.

As a result of an armed clash in the capital of Chechnya, six people were killed. According to preliminary information, one of the casualties is the 18-year-old Ibragim Mazhaev.

Through the creation of a low-cost airline "Buta Airways", the Azerbaijani national carrier AZAL is trying to fight for the monopoly in the low-cost market, experts say. The AZAL already possesses some experience in creating a brand for cheap air flights – the AZALJET, but only a small part of this airline's tickets are sold at lowest prices.

The last two Dagestani orphanagesn, located in the cities of Izberbash and Kaspiysk will be re-profiled in 2017, said Djamal Ataev, the spokesman of the Republic's Ministry of Education and Sciences. According to the Ministry, the total number of orphans in Dagestan is 5678 people.

Seven oppositional Deputies of Tbilisi Self-Government has voted against the draft city budget, offered by the authorities, but still it was adopted by the majority of them.

According to women, working in state institutions of Chechnya, they were obliged to come to work in the garment, completely covering their hair and forehead. The order is spread exclusively in the oral form, said the women.

The works of Dagestani painters, who take part in the international project "We are only on the side of peace", bring the idea of accord, solidarity and rejection of war. The exhibition in Makhachkala will last for a month.

2.6% of refugees from Azerbaijan, remaining in Armenia, are still without Armenian citizenship after the termination of the programme in support of forced migrants, said Anahit Airapetyan, the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Armenia.

The police and private companies are indiscriminately evacuating cars, including those marked as "disabled person", said Pavel Zhestovskiy, the chairman of the society of invalids of the Tsentralny District of Sochi. This practice has become widespread, social activists assert.

The members of the government of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) were not informed about the sale of the building of the Philharmonic Society to a private person, which followed after the transfer of the building to the balance of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Torgset".

In 2016, despite the disruption of the construction schedule of the Drama Theatre in Tskhinvali, the South-Ossetian authorities have coped with their obligations before Russia in implementing the investment programme. This was stated by Alexander Khloponin, a Russian Vice-Premier.

The official from the Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has asked the court to find Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Constituent Parliament", guilty of using violence against a policeman.

The Zamoskvoretskiy District Court of Moscow has upheld the putting by the Russia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of the International "Memorial" into the register of organizations-"foreign agents". The court ruling will be appealed against, said Elena Zhemkova, the executive director of the organization.