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In Istanbul, Circassian activists have held a protest action in front of the building of the General Consulate of Russia in Istiklal Street in connection with the arrest of repatriate Adnan Khuade and his daughter in Adygea.

An audio appeal of a resident of Chechnya, in which she criticized Ramzan Kadyrov for ways of collecting payments for housing and utility services, has acquired a wide resonance in the Chechen segment of the Internet. Then, the Chechen State TV and Radio Company "Grozny" featured a story about the meeting of the author of the appeal with Kadyrov, at which she retracted her words.

A meeting of Presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan took place today in Bern, Switzerland, at the background of reports of violations of the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone. Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliev expressed their support to the mechanism of investigating incidents on the border and measures aimed to settle the conflict, suggested by the OSCE.

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has finished announcing the appeal complaints lodged by the figurants of the case on the attack on Nalchik. The convicts ask to commute their sentences up to complete acquittal.

Until January 17, 2016, Chechen residents must fully repay their debts for electricity, gas and water for 2015, the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov has declared. The authorities of Chechnya have an agreement with the federal centre that in case of successful repayment of the debts for 2015, the centre will write off the republic's debt of 24 billion roubles accrued over the past years, said a source from the republic's Ministry of Housing and Utilities.

In the village of Sernovodskaya, Sunzha District, a new mosque was opened, designed to house 3000 parishioners. In the coming weeks the republic will open two other large mosques – in the city of Shali and the village of Avtury.

By their condemning of the "Islamic State" (IS), the leaders of the Juma Mosque, located in Hungarian Fighters Street in Makhachkala, made an efficient step in the efforts to protect the Muslim youth, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

In Makhachkala, relatives of Khasavyurt residents, accused of raping a minor, have stopped their protest because of deterioration of their health.

Before December 31, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia will exclude the movement "For Human Rights" from the registry of "foreign agents". This decision is connected with the liquidation of the regional branch of the movement in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), said Lev Ponomaryov, the leader of the movement.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has sent the case of the local resident Yusup Magomedov, accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF) to the Khunzakh District Court.

Inna Blenaova, a resident of Nalchik, suspected of aiding Robert Zankishiev, the leader of the local branch of the "Islamic State" (IS – a terrorist organization banned in Russia), who was killed during a special operation on November 10, is at home: the court chose a freedom restriction measure for her in the form of house arrest.

The Armenian National Congress (ANC), which has initiated collection of signatures under the appeal to the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia challenging the outcomes of the referendum, managed to collect only 19 instead of required 27 MPs' signatures. However, the oppositionists announced a new justification for going to the CC.

The circumstances of deaths of some soldiers that figure in the case of Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh are counter reality, said the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Baku held a preparatory court session on the case of Mamed Ibragim, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence has petitioned on termination of the criminal case and on changing his freedom restriction measure.

The father of one of the figurants in the case of raping a minor, who is participating in a hunger strike in Makhachkala, has been hospitalized today to the central hospital because of heart problems.

Relatives of Nukhudin Zubairov, Shamil Gadjiev and Magomed Khairulaev, residents of the Kizilyurt District, have refuted the data of power agents that the above trio had been militants' helpers. Relatives demand to have their bodies for burial.

In the territory of the 102nd Russian military base in Armenia first session of the court that considers the murder in Gyumri of seven members of Avetisyan family took place.

In Chechnya, at the request of the prosecutor's office, investigating authorities have opened a criminal case against two local residents, suspected of their intention to go to Syria and join militants.

Today, the last five heavy-duty trucks, whose drivers kept protesting against the "Platon" system in Kashira Highway, have left the park and headed to Volgograd, said Alexei Ulyanov, the coordinator of the action.

A team of experts from the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) and the "Sova" Information-Analytical Centre has written a report "Life without rights. Status of Ahiska Turks Cypriots in Southern Russia in 2015". Most of the problems with accommodation of Meskhetian (Ahiska) Turks in Southern Russia are caused by absence of their Russian citizenship, the authors assert.