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The decoration of Akhmed Dudaev, a Chechen minister, with a medal for the protection of human rights (advocacy), and awarding Chingiz Akhmadov, the head of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (the Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company), for the development of civil society are ridiculous, Instagram users have noted.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia has informed that its two military servicemen were wounded as a result of shelling conducted by Azerbaijani units.

Azerbaijani units shelled the combat positions of Armenia in the Gegarkunik direction, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported. Its Azerbaijani counterpart reported about a shelling attack on the Azerbaijani positions in the Kelbadjar District.

On December 7-8, the 55th round of the International Geneva Discussions on Security and Stability in the Transcaucasus was held in Geneva, which gathered representatives of Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Georgia, Russia, and the United States took part under the co-chairmanship of the UN, EU, and OSCE.

In the Shusha District, two young workers involved in restoration work were killed in a mine explosion, the Azerbaijani police reported.

Turkish doctors diagnosed Salekh Rustamov with the brain cell regression, but the prisoner refused to end his hunger strike, which he has been continuing for 34 days already, an advocate of the prisoner reported. The Azerbaijani authorities have ignored numerous requests to release Salekh Rustamov, human rights defender Rufat Safarov notes.

Students of higher and secondary educational institutions are involved as volunteers in checking QR codes of visitors to large shopping centres in Makhachkala, the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications, and Mass Media of Dagestan announces.

Asif Aliev, an Azerbaijani soldier was killed on the border of the Kelbadjar District with Armenia in a shootout with Armenian militaries, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed. The Armenian MoD has accused Azeri militaries of the shootout on the border.

The development of economic ties with countries of Southern Caucasus will allow the USA to restore is lost political influence in the region, the participants in the discussion organized by the "Foreign Policy" magazine in Tbilisi have stated.

On December 8, about two thousand supporters of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party held a protest action near the residence of Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, demanding to set Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili free. Failing to achieve a meeting with her, they threatened to switchover to tougher protest forms.

By demanding from Armenia to open the Zangezur Corridor, Azerbaijani President, Ilham Aliev, has secured the support of the international community; therefore, his threats to solve the problem by force are quite real, the Azeri analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe. Baku is using the corridor issue as a lever of pressure on Armenia, and the country is vulnerable to it, political analysts in Yerevan have noted.

The health condition of Salekh Rustamov, an Azerbaijani activist, who has been on his protest hunger strike in prison for 33 days, continues deteriorating. He has severe headaches, his brother has stated. An independent doctor, Adil Geibulla, who visited Rustamov, reported that the hunger-striker was under "supportive treatment."

Doctors have discharged a resident of the Urvan District from hospital with traumas in his face, explaining that they were caused by the patient's fall, his relatives complained.

Azerbaijani militaries shelled a vehicle belonging to an Armenian military unit. No one was injured as a result of the shelling attack, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports today.

A man accused of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili deserves life imprisonment, but members of the Chechen Diaspora fear that even in case of such a sentence, the convict may be extradited to Russia.

Relatives of the militaries missing in action during the war in Nagorno-Karabakh blocked a street in the centre of Yerevan. The police pushed them back. Ten people were detained during the protest action.

Video blogger Yury Dud should visit residents of Chechnya and ask them about torture, YouTube users suggest. Chechnya has become a testing ground for the spread of torture throughout Russia, notes Lyudmila Kukhnina, a coordinator of the database compiled by the “Committee against Torture”.

A detainee committed suicide at the police department in the Belokalitvinsky District. He was in solitary confinement, the police of the Rostov Region reports today.

The President (Speaker) of the National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia must personally explain his words about deserters, relatives of the prisoners of war (POWs) and missing servicemen demanded on the second day of their protest action.

As revenge for the fine imposed by the state inspector, the Georgia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has applied disciplinary sanctions, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has stated and refused from medical care at the prison hospital.