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The Ukrainian side has sent a request to the law enforcement bodies of Rostov-on-Don. Ukrainian officials want to visit at IVS (temporary detention facility) Arthur Panov, a 17-year-old citizen of Ukraine, who became involved in the criminal case of plotting a terror act.

In Azerbaijan, 93 political prisoners are still kept in custody. This was reported by the working group for drawing up a single list of political prisoners. Members of the working group activists, human rights defenders, journalists, and advocates have called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release all political prisoners.

The "Caucasian Knot" has interviewed tenants of the multi-storey residential building collapsed in Volgograd. The people affected by the incident have claimed that officials force them to rewrite appeals, express negligent attitude to the demands of the victims and subject them to the red tape in the processing of the necessary certificates. The tenants are also not satisfied with the compensation in the amount of 30,000 roubles and the uncertainty concerning the compensation for housing.

According to evidence of Olga Vozyakova, a defence witness, Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko was captured 1.5 hours prior to the opening of fire by the artillery of the armed forces of Ukraine. Prosecutors claim that the defendant was captured after the start of the shelling.

Today, the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, released from colony-settlement No. 2 of the Department for the Tambov Region of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), has arrived in Krasnodar. Vitishko told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he feels well, despite his 20-day-long hunger strike – he has lost 9 kilos of body weight, but feels full of energy and plans. He intends to continue his nature-protection activities.

Turkish policemen are establishing the cause of the explosion at the airport, which killed one woman. The inquiry is conducted against the background of the search of Patimat Abdulgamidova, a native of Dagestan, suspected of preparing a major terror act in Turkey.

The Kizlyar District Court has found two locals Aidemir Sharipov and Aslanbeg Tugailaev guilty of providing housing and transport means to participants of the armed underground, as well as of possession of weapons and drugs, and sentenced them to 5.5 and 4.5 years in prison, respectively.

A demand to speed up the inquiry into the dispersal of protesters in Yerevan was made by nine media organizations in Armenia. Those responsible for the dispersal must be brought to justice, they insist.

Ilya Novikov, an advocate of Nadezda Savchenko, said that his client, a Ukrainian pilot, is on a hunger strike for the sixth day; he added that Nadezhda is only drinking water.

In Dagestan, in the city of Khasavyurt, a driver of a car, who opened fire on policemen, was shot dead. This was reported by a source from the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan.

Members of the criminal grouping, detained in Yerevan, were planning to seize several facilities and blow up the plane of the President of Armenia. This was reported by the newspaper "Hraparak" with reference to a source from the law enforcement bodies of Armenia.

In the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran, policemen discovered ammunitions in the houses of the detained villagers.

In Volgograd, rescuers have found the body of a man, who can be considered the fourth victim killed in the explosion at a nine-storey residential building. This was reported by Natalia Kunitskaya, Press Secretary of the Investigating Department for the Volgograd Region of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have reported on the increasing use of the method of humiliation of Chechen residents, who dare to voice negative assessment of Ramzan Kadyrov's activities.

Truck drivers, who took part in the strike against the system "Platon" in Dagestan, went home. According to the truck drivers, they are ready to resume their protest action in early 2016.

In Volgograd, at an evacuation centre, senior schoolchildren from the school No. 33 rendered assistance to the people affected by the explosion of the residential building. The schoolchildren have announced their willingness to work as volunteers as long as the evacuation centre exists.

The documents needed to release the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko from his colony in the Tambov Region arrived today. The released Vitishko was met by activists of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

Ovannes Karapetyan, a supporter of "New Armenia", who had stitched up his mouth and gone on a hunger strike in protest against human rights violations, has agreed to remove the stitches, but continues his protest in Freedom Square.

After the incident in the colony of Belorechensk, where inmates were beaten up and a teenager died, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) is holding checks of all educational colonies of Russia. The check in the Belorechensk colony as such resulted in dismissal of 17 employees.

The hunger strike is held in protest against the actions of the employees of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan, said Rufat Safarov, an investigator of the Zardab District Prosecutor's Office. According to his story, his office and rented apartment were searched without a court sanction.