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In Georgia, tariffs for supply of electricity and tap water will rise on January 1, 2018. The State Commission has explained the growth of tariffs by the need for repair and development of pipelines and power grids. After the increase in tariffs, prices for goods will also rise, economists noted.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov has instructed the law enforcement bodies to enhance security measures in Ingushetia during the winter holidays in connection with an explosion in a Saint Petersburg supermarket.

Today, in Tbilisi, the court has pronounced the decision to take into custody four men detained during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge and accused of aiding and abetting terrorists.

In Gori, 445 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Abkhazia and South Ossetia were granted apartments in eight new buildings, the Georgian authorities reported.

On December 27, rescuers used a helicopter to evacuate two snowboarders from Moscow who stuck among rocks in the area in Sochi, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports.

In Chechnya, employees of budgetary organizations were instructed to create accounts in Mylistory to follow the leader of the republic. Meanwhile, they did not get any requests to close their pages in Western social networks.

In the case of an explosion in a Saint Petersburg supermarket, investigators classified the incident as an attempted murder. However, today, the Russian President has called the incident a terror act. Vladimir Putin has also reminded the recent detention of natives of Dagestan and Ingushetia in the case of a preparation of terror acts in Saint Petersburg.

The investigation into the murder of soldier Dmitry Yalpaev in Gyumri has been completed. Defendant Arman Djandjugazyan has called himself to be a supporter of the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS, banned in Russia).

Residents of Chechnya, who left the republic due to a project of the "Russian LGBT Network", reported about torture after detentions and about the role of top-ranking officials in organizing gay raids.

The Facebook administration has confirmed that accounts of the head of Chechnya in the Facebook and the Instagram service, belonging to it, have been deactivated in connection with the US sanctions.

On December 25, Georgian law enforcers handed over Robert Agvanyan, wanted in Armenia for importing an "Igla" (Needle) man-portable air-defence system (MANPADS), to Armenia, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has stated.

The Georgian Prosecutor's Office is investigating the circumstances of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), during which a 19-year-old villager in the Pankisi Gorge was seriously wounded. In its appeal to the government, the village council of elders treated law enforcers' actions as unacceptable.

In the capital of Chechnya, law enforcers have checked IDs of local residents and drivers, Grozny residents reported.

Two doctors from Belarus, who in Libya were forced to continue working under their contracts, were released after the intervention of the Chechen leader, the "Kommersant" reports.

The Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has timed the pardoning to the New Year. 123 prisoners will quit their colonies today.

The Court of Khasavyurt has sentenced a local resident to 18 years of imprisonment in a penal colony. The man is accused of raping his seven-year-old daughter and beating his eight-year-old son, the Prosecutor's Office reports.

The decision of Aina Gamzatova, the wife of the Dagestani Mufti, to run for presidency was not coordinated with Kremlin, but even such an attempt gives candidates a chance to become all-Russian-scale public figures, the political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe.

Khava Ibragimova, who was evacuated during the first Chechen War from Grozny, on December 25 returned to her mother, who had been looked for her all these years. The return of the disabled girl to her family from a boarding school in Dagestani Buynaksk became possible after a DNA examination.

Within the last 24 hours, Armenian and Karabakh militaries violated the ceasefire regime for 118 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported, adding that villages of the Gazakh and Tovuz Districts were shelled.

In the period from March to December, about 1000 animals were sterilized in a Makhachkala dog kennel, but the problem of catching stray dogs still remains urgent, the authorities report.