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Today, at the Moscow District Military Court, the prosecutor has filed a motion asking to extend the detention of the defendants. Despite the objections of the defence, the court has ruled to leave them in custody until March 30, 2017.

On December 26, the court will consider the request of the administration of the penal colony, where Boris Stomakhin is serving his sentence for public justification of the terror acts in Volgograd. The administration requests the prison regime for Boris Stomakhin. Human rights defenders have called on the court to refuse tightening the detention regime for the publicist and claimed ungrounded penalties imposed on him at the penal colony.

Miners of the "Kingcoal" Company have claimed they did not receive money from the authorities, despite the payments had been announced by Vasily Golubev, Governor of the Rostov Region.

One of residents of Chechnya, who was declared killed in the recent counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Grozny, was shot in the yard of his house, the portal "Caucasus. Realities" reports with reference to its sources in the republic.

On December 21, in the village of Prigorodnoye in the Grozny District of Chechnya, local residents held a gathering. They demanded to evict from their village family members of Zelimkhan Bakharchiev, located in Syria. According to the Chechen law enforcement authorities, the man organized attacks on policemen in Grozny on December 17 and 18.

On December 21, in Makhachkala, at the next court hearing held in the case of prevention registration of Magomed Magomedov, a former official of a Salafi mosque, the Soviet District Court listened to a district police inspector, whose report provoked the inclusion of the name of Magomed Magomedov in a police prevention registration list.

At the hearing in the "Nardaran case" held on November 21, the court announced the results of a medical examination, which confirmed the presence of bodily injuries of defendants several days after their detention. The defence believes the medical examination confirms the use of torture.

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes has begun considering the case of Elgiz Gakhramanov, an activist of the oppositional movement "Nida", accused of illegal drug circulation.

The Chechen leadership has nothing to do with the formation of battalions for sending to Syria, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated today.

The advocates, who represent the interests of the successors of the Avetisyan family, massacred in Gyumri, are dissatisfied with the refusal to pay compensation for moral harm.

The "Musavat" Party has called on to investigate the information about the bribing Azeri politicians of PACE Deputies, promulgated by the "European Stability Initiative" (ESI). The head of the Azerbaijani delegation to the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) has treated the scandalous information as a provocation.

Today, Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), a student, accused of an attempt to join a terrorist organization in Syria, has asked the court for leniency.

Today, at the hearings held at the Parliament of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) and devoted to issues of combating terrorism and extremism, Arthur Makhov, Deputy Prosecutor of the KBR, has reported that at least 170 residents of Kabardino-Balkaria are involved in activities of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned by court in Russia and recognized as a terrorist organization. Of them, 59 suspects are put on the international wanted list.

The body of a Turkish diplomat's daughter has been found in the capital of Azerbaijan. According to the preliminary information, the girl fell down from a window located on the 10th floor.

Advocate Vadim Prokhorov has expressed his doubts concerning the explanations voiced by defendant Shagid Gubashev. According to the defendant, in 2014, he repeatedly travelled to the area of the village in the Moscow Region, where the house of Boris Nemtsov was located, on business issues and not to watch the politician.

In the Karabudakhkent District, law enforcers shot and killed two policemen, who, according to the law enforcement authorities, opened fire when they attempted to stop their car to check the driver's documents.

Attempts of miners to leave the town of Gukovo for Moscow to take part in a meeting with MP Valery Rashkin were blocked. The protesters themselves received threats of violence. This was reported by Valery Dyakonov, one of the leaders of the miners' protests.

The international community should intervene in the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan and ensure a fair trial against defendants in the "Nardaran case", who were subjected to violence and inhuman treatment. This was declared by the World Organization against Torture (known by its French abbreviation OMCT).

The leadership of the Chechen Republic has received a task to send two battalions of 600 people each to Syria. Apti Bolotkhanov, a participant of the warfare in Donbas, will supposedly command one of them, the "Novaya Gazeta" has reported today with reference to its anonymous sources.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found reasonable nine complaints lodged by citizens of Georgia against their expulsion from Russia in 2006. On two of them, compensations have been awarded totalling to 76,000 euros; the amounts on the remaining seven complaints have not yet been defined.