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Activists of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan" have held a picket in support of Ildar Dadin, who was sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a penal colony on the charge of repeated violation of the rules for holding actions. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

In Volgograd, the city residents, who lost their apartments after an explosion in a multi-storey apartment building, have sent a petition to the authorities. They demand to promptly provide them with accommodation in the same residential district, equivalent to the housing lost by them as a result of the explosion.

On January 6, Natiq Kerimov, one of the elders of the village of Nardaran, was detained in Nardaran near the school No. 62, where he came to accompany his grandson home. The court of Baku has pronounced the decision to arrest Natiq Kerimov for four months.

In Yerevan, participants of the action have demanded to investigate the case on the attack on activist Suzi Gevorkyan. Besides, they reported on unjustified arrest of activist Gevorg Safaryan.

Rescue team has discovered the bodies of three skiers who came under an avalanche while skiing on slopes of Mount Cheget.

At the Sochi ski resort of Gornaya Karousel (Mountain Carousel), a staff member of an avalanche service, came under a snow avalanche. This was reported by the press service of the Department for the Krasnodar Territory of the Russian Ministry for Emergencies (MfE).

In Kabardino-Balkaria, an avalanche descended from Mount Cheget. According to the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) for Kabardino-Balkaria, three skiers came under the snow.

Today, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has explained the fire strikes against the Armenian positions by the fact that the counterpart violated the ceasefire 119 times.

Relatives of Mamaev and Voloshin, prisoners of the Chelyabinsk penal colony, who testified in the case of the death of Sultan Israilov, a sentenced native of Chechnya, cannot reveal his whereabouts, human rights defenders report.

In Krasny Sulin, tenants of a two-storey house were evacuated because of a bomb threat. The report about the bomb turned out to be false.

The number of ceasefire violations at the contact line of the armed forces of Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan has decreased and thus made possible the visits of public activists to the advanced positions in the framework of the programme "Army-Society Communication". This was reported by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh complete religious activities on the occasion of the holidays of Christmas and Epiphany combined under the common name of Epiphany, celebrated on January 6.

A critical publication on the pardoning decree of Azerbaijani Presidential was the reason of the warning made by the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan to Ogtay Gyulalyev, the head of the Public Alliance "Azerbaijan without Political Prisoners" and a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF).

The "Imarat Kavkaz" is disoriented at the background of its rivalry with the "Islamic State" (IS), said the experts, who commented on Zalim Shebzukhov's appeal to militants to return to the "Imarat Kavkaz".

In Yerevan, a group of unidentified men has beaten up Suzi Gevorkyan, a member of the "New Armenia" Front, the headquarters of the opposition movement has reported.

As reported today by the Armenian police, in a shootout in the restaurant "Musaler", owned by Armenian MP Grant Grigoryan, the 22-year-old Aram Karapetyan and the 35-year-old Armen Khlgatyan received gunshot wounds.

Zaur Dadaev and Anzor Gubashev, accused of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, have stated at interrogations that before February 27, 2015, they had twice tried to assassinate him, the "Rosbalt" reports today referring to the defendants' testimonies.

In the southern regions of Russia, Orthodox believers are preparing to celebrate Christmas. The police and rescue teams are taking control to protect the venues of mass festivities.

The Georgian police have reported the death of snowboarder Nugzar Diakonashvili. According to the law enforcers, he was hit by an avalanche in Bakuriani.

Gadjimurad Gazichilov, a resident of Makhachkala, disappeared on December 29, 2015. His relatives do not rule out a kidnapping. They note that the disappeared man is a relative of Shamil Nurmagomedov, killed in Dagestan by law enforcers.