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This time again, deficit budgets have been brought for discussion to the Parliament of the Republics of Northern Caucasus. Officials claim that measures to reduce budget deficits are taken.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) began checking the statement of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov about a possible involvement of "a certain Kalyapin" in financing militants.

The House of Press in the Chechen capital, damaged in the course of the militants' attack on Grozny, will be fully restored by December 25. The repairs of School No. 20 and pavilions of the "Berkat" Shopping Centre are near completion, said the Grozny Mayoralty.

In the course of the operation conducted on December 18 in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the village of Dygulybgey, which makes a part of the city of Baksan, apart from Andzor Guchapshev, the leader of the local underground, his accomplice Martin Abazov was also killed.

On December 18, the office staff of Elmira Suleimanova, the Ombudsperson of Azerbaijan, visited the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the journalist Khadija Ismayilova is kept, and gave her legal advice.

Azerbaijani authorities shall immediately release of Ilgar Mamedov, the leader of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl), said the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.

New evidence has appeared about the involvement of MIA and FSB agents in criminal prosecution of Imam of Kislovodsk Kurman-Ali Baichorov; and in this context, the court's refusal to grant the petition to return the case to the stage of judicial investigation is illegitimate, said the Imam's advocates.

The advocates of the natives of Dagestan, convicted for helping the organizers of the terror acts committed on the 2013 New Year 2013 in Volgograd, have appealed against the verdict of the district court. The consideration of appeal complaints will take place not earlier than mid-January, said the court.

A court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has sentenced A. Djappuev, a resident of the city of Tyrnyauz to 3.5 years of imprisonment on charges of aiding and financing militants.

Johar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act in Boston in April 2013, has arrived at the final stage of the preliminary hearing of his case. This is the first Tsarnaev's appearance in public since July 2013.

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution calling on Russia to recall the "alliance and strategic partnership treaty" signed with the authorities of Abkhazia.

On Thursday, December 18, the Predgorny District Court of the Stavropol Territory rejected the petition asking to allow the video and photo filming of the trial of the Imam of Kislovodsk Kurman-Ali Baichorov.

Representatives of the international human rights organizations "Human Rights Watch" (HRW), "Amnesty International" (AI) and "Front Line Defenders" (FLD), in their open letter have called on the Russian President Vladimir Putin to investigate the attacks on rights defenders and condemn the practice of collective punishments.

In the past two days, residents of Chechnya have been massively withdrawing funds from their bank accounts. The reason was in the rumours circulating among people about the upcoming freezing of accounts and credit cards due to a sharp depreciation of the rouble. Bankers think that the panic is unjustified.

The European External Action Service (EEAS), which is a part of the European Union (EU), has issued a statement calling on the authorities of Chechnya to give a balanced response to the surge of tension in the region and condemned the intention of Ramzan Kadyrov to expel militants' families out of the republic.

The court that running the trial of Imangazali Magomedov, a resident of the village of Shaumyan, who is accused of aiding militants and illegal possession of firearms and drugs, has rejected the earlier motions of the defence, including the one demanding to study the three criminal cases, where the same witnesses had been questioned as in the present case.

As reported by a law enforcement source from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), in the village of Dygulybgey, Baksan District of the KBR, power agents shot dead three militants. The counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime was lifted at 9:45 a.m. Moscow time.

The Adler District Court of Sochi has handed down a guilty verdict to the builder Mardiros Demerchyan and appointed a punishment of 300 hours of mandatory public work.

The Kuschevsky District Court in the Krasnodar Territory has found Nadezhda Tsapok, the former head and founder of the company "Artex-Agro", guilty of large-scale fraud of embezzling 770 hectares of land.

As reported by the spokesman of the Chechen Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), the versions of a fire from a short circuit in the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in no longer considered – the main version of the reason of the fire is arson.