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Three militants were killed in the abandoned summer cottage settlement in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR); the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the republic has been lifted, power agents report.

Since the onset of the warfare in Syria, 20 natives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have been killed there, said Valery Ustov, the Head of the Investigating Department (ID) for the KBR of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In the Shamil District, in the course of a shootout, a suspected militant, who opened fire on the policemen, was killed, said a local law enforcement source.

A list of 22 political prisoners with the proposal to include them into expected New Year's pardoning was presented to the joint working group on human rights, said Novella Djafaroglu, a member of the Monitoring Group of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan (MGHROA).

The crisis in the relations between Russia and Turkey will not affect the situation in Northern Caucasus. This opinion was expressed by participants of the "roundtable" held at the Carnegie Moscow Centre. Meanwhile, the experts do not exclude that the crisis may affect the issues concerning Armenia.

In the Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, law enforcers tried to stop a car for inspection. However, people opened fire from the car. The attackers were killed by return fire.

In her complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Elita Magomadova has pointed out the violation in Chechnya of her right to raise her minor son. After Chechen courts had pronounced the decisions about leaving her minor son with her ex-husband, the woman has not been able to see her son for more than two years.

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).