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Etibar Fatiev, the head of the Sabirabad District Branch of the youth organization of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest after he was found guilty of petty hooliganism and disobeying to the police.

Power agents have begun letting advocate to visit Magomed Aushev, a resident of the village of Ekazhevo, detained after shooting at the wedding party. However, no members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) are still allowed to visit Aushev.

The oath taken by Amir of Dagestani militants Abu Muhammad to the terrorist organization of the "Islamic State" (IS), and the actions of Kebekov, who appointed a new Amir of Dagestan, have caused varying assessments of the experts, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

Disputes around the New Year holidays and their attributes present in street of Dagestani cities remain hot; and to reach a compromise, the state and the Muslim community should abandon the practice of imposing their unambiguous positions on this issue and resolve the conflict through a public debate.

The verdict to figurants in the case of complicity to terror acts on December 29 and 30, 2013, in Volgograd must be toughened to the maximum, the participants of the today's memorial rally at the Volgograd railway station, questioned by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, believe.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is ranked the first place in the 2014 bloggers' citation rating drafting by the company "Medialogia"; and his most popular statements include the statement about the death of Omar al-Shishani, the leader of the "Islamic State", and information about the special operation after the militants' attack on Grozny.

Ilham Aliev, the President of Azerbaijan, has signed a decree to pardon 87 prisoners. According to rights defenders, the list includes 10 political prisoners.

On Monday, Volgograd commemorated the victims of the terror acts that occurred on December 29 and 30, 2013, in the building of the railway station and in a trolleybus. Some "disturbing atmosphere" is felt in the city, said Natalia Lyakhova, the Chief Physician of Hospital No. 25.

Verdict on 2005 Nalchik attack case; reduction of prison term of ex-Mayor of Astrakhan Mikhail Stolyarov; decision to set up parliamentary commission in Georgia to investigate the works in the Sakdrisi-Kachagiani mine; hunger strike of residents Novolak District of Dagestan with demand to solve their land problem; pipeline accident in the Krasnodar Territory, resulting in sea pollution; municipal elections in Azerbaijan and search and closure of Radio Liberty office in Baku, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 22-28, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

The National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia has confirmed that a shootout that broke out in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia resulted in the killing of three members of illegal armed formations (IAFs). According to the NAC, one of those killed was the head of the so-called "Sunzha" grouping of militants.

The house of the family of Anzor Lulaev in the Chechen village of Sernovodskoe was demolished after Lulaev himself was shot dead by law enforcers in a special operation, said a woman-villager.

Sabir Ibragimov, a resident of Khasavyurt, whose disappearance was reported by relatives on December 27, was placed into the temporary detention facility (known as IVS. Abdullah Gaziev, an advocate of the Dagestani Bar "Kavkaz", hired by Ibragimov's relatives, was not allowed to meet his client.

Aliaskhab (Ali Abu Muhammad) Kebekov, the leader of the "Imarat Kavkaz", recognized by a court decision as a terrorist organization, has accused the leader of Dagestani militants of a split after he had taken oath to the "Islamic State" and appointed a new Amir of Dagestan.

During the week from December 22 to December 28, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus gave birth to five victims; of them, four were killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Ramzan Makhauri, Ramzan Gagaev and Amerkhan Amatkhanov, killed on Sunday in Ingushetia, were wanted on suspicion of involvement in terror acts and attempts on power agents, sources in law enforcement bodies of the republic have reported.

Azerbaijan holds mass detentions of employees of the Baku office of Radio Liberty; they are forcibly taken to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), Zeinal Mamedli, the editor-in-chief of the bureau, told the "Caucasian Knot".

Today, the conference hall of the National Broadcasting Company "Ingushetia" hosted the annual press conference of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, where the head of the republic has summed up the year. He said that one of the most important achievements of Ingushetia in 2014 was one of the lowest crime rates in the North-Caucasian Federal District.

On December 25, a court in Grozny found Beslan Tsintsalashvili, a citizen of Georgia, of an attempt to persuade two residents of Chechnya to terrorist activities, and sentenced him to six years in prison, Luiza Killaeva, Tsintsalashvili's advocate, said on December 27.

Relatives cannot establish the whereabouts of Sabir Ibragimov, a resident of the city of Khasavyurt, who was detained today, said his wife. The city police say that the young man was not taken there.

Stanislav Dmitrievsky, the executive director of the "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society", who was returning from Chechnya to Nizhny Novgorod within the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) has reported his three-hour detention at the federal checkpoint in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).