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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.

Drivers of heavy-duty trucks are ready to go to work, but they will not stop speaking out against the "Platon" system, said Alexander Kotov, the head of the union of professional drivers.

In Makhachkala, the leaders of the Juma Mosque, located in Hungarian Fighters Street, which is considered a Salafi mosque, called on Muslims to beware of travelling to the "Islamic State" (IS).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has upheld the complaint of 14 applicants from Azerbaijan about violation of their rights during the 2010 parliamentary elections and decided that the applicants should receive compensations from the Azerbaijani authorities in the amount of 135,000 euros.

Kabardino-Balkaria has opened a criminal case against Inna Blenaova, a resident of Nalchik, on suspicion of collaborating with Robert Zankishiev, the leader of the local branch of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia, who was killed in the course of a special operation conducted on November 10.

Nadezhda Savchenko came to a court session in Donetsk wearing a T-shirt with an appeal to Vladimir Putin, asking for information about the fates of Ukrainians detained in Russia. Putin did not rule out an exchange of prisoners under the principle "all for all".

The fight against the "Platon" system will continue, although Putin's proposal to abolish the vehicle tax and introduce seasonal patents looks interesting, Volgograd truckers who stay near Moscow believe. According to their story, on December 18, they plan to go home.

Today, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow has extended by three months the detention of Alexandra Ivanova (Varvara Karaulova), arrested on the case of attempting to join the "Islamic State" (IS), the terrorist organization prohibited in Russia.

In the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), on the initiative of several non-governmental organizations, the Union of NGOs and active citizens has been created. The Union is positioning itself as an independent organization.

Yesterday, in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, power agents entered two shootouts, during which three people were killed. One of the shootouts occurred in Kizilyurt, the second one in the village of Komsomolskoe, said the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The protest of truckers, who oppose the introduction of truck tolls on federal highways, continues only in Dagestan out of the regions of Southern Russia. No more than 60 persons are still striking near Khasavyurt.

At the request of Sergey Obukhov, a State Duma MP, Igor Vasiliev, the leader of the Sochi branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), had a meeting with the 64-year-old Nadezhda Tumanova, who has been living for more than a year at the Adler railway station.

The video clips depicting executions of Migitin Djavadov, the head of the Dagestani village of Karamakhi, and Shamil Ibakov, a resident of the village of Chankurbe, were filmed by local militants, who acted without the guidance from the "Islamic State" (IS), forbidden in Russia, stated the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Eight relatives of the residents of Khasavyurt, accused of raping a minor, continue their hunger strike in Makhachkala. They state deterioration of protesters' health.

The aggravation of socio-economic situation in Russia, and further departure of elites away from ordinary people in Northern Caucasus create fertile soil for strengthening the position of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The head of Chechnya has stated that Turkish media are spreading information about an assassination attempt on him because of his "principled viewpoint on the downed aircraft."

In a shootout with policemen in Kizilyurt, Nuzhidin Zubairov and Shamil Gadjiev, suspected militants, were killed and, said the press service of the Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF); while earlier a law enforcement source had reported about three casualties.

The Ust-Djeguta District Court of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has sentenced Akhmat Seitov and Botash Botashov to 10 months in prison for their intention to go to Syria for joining the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS).

The commander of one of the units fighting for the self-proclaimed People's Republic of Lugansk is Andrei Ruzinskiy, a colonel of the Russian Armed Forces. At the time of the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri, he was in command of the 102nd Russian military base, stationed in that Armenian city.

Two fire-fighters, who were attacked in the Derbent District of Dagestan, stay at the traumatology ward of the Derbent City Hospital.