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Due to the anti-covid restrictions, the traditional "Alilo" Christmas march was held in Tbilisi in the form of a car rally; priests aspersed streets from inside cars. In Kutaisi and Kvareli, the marches took place in the traditional format.

Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the Georgian "Pirveli" TV Company, has been included by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) into the list of killed journalists.

Russian and international human rights organizations appealed to the Russian President with a request to do everything possible to end the repressions in Chechnya, ensure that human rights violations, committed by the Chechen authorities, are investigated and that all those responsible are brought to justice.

On the evening of January 6, Polad Aslanov, an imprisoned director of the “xeberman.com” website, went on a hunger strike. The convicted journalist demands a reconsideration of his case and protests against the delay in the consideration of his complaint by the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan.

Analysts from Baku believe that the deployment of the Collective Security Treaty Organization troops to Kazakhstan will aggravate the political crisis in the country and strengthen the anti-Russian sentiments and the desire of society to withdraw from the CIS institutions.

The Armenian military forces will ensure the protection of facilities of strategic importance, the Ministry of Defence of Armenia reports.

The prosecution has demanded from the court to sentence Eldar Gasanov, a former Azerbaijani Public Prosecutor General and Ambassador to Serbia, to 11 years in prison, as well as to confiscate his property.

Mass protests such as those underway in Kazakhstan are possible in Azerbaijan if the authorities fail with democratic reforms, oppositionists believe. Mass actions in Azerbaijan have been ruled out due to people's high trust in the president, a member of the ruling party is sure.

Giorgi Kalandadze, the former head of the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces who was detained in late December in Germany at the request of the Georgian authorities, has been set free.

The federal benefit allocated because of the coronavirus pandemic to the Chechen, Djokhar Tsarnaev, convicted for committing terror act at the Boston Marathon, will be transferred by a court decision to the terror act victims.

Armenia should not send its military personnel as part of the peacemaking contingent of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), given the geopolitical situation, as well as the fact that Premier Pashinyan himself came to power through street protests, users of the Armenian Facebook segment have stated.

Over the last week, the epidemiological situation with coronavirus has worsened in Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, Kalmykia and the Rostov Region; it has improved in the Volgograd Region, the operative headquarters for COVID-19 prevention stated on January 6.

According to Facebook users, the proposal of State Duma member Biysultan Khamzaev to annex Kazakhstan to Russia is populism. Biysultan Khamzaev must remove the posts with his proposal as not to dishonour natives of Dagestan, Instagram users urge.

A spokesperson for the Southern Military District called false the information about a transfer of a brigade of guards from Kamensk-Shakhtinsk to suppress riots in Kazakhstan. Paratroopers from Tula have already arrived in the country to perform the CSTO mission.

Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, agrees to wait till late January for the fulfilment of his demands concerning involvement of foreign doctors in his treatment and visits of advocates. In case of refusal to fulfil his demands, Mikhail Saakashvili can go on hunger strike again, his advocate says today.

Most residents of the large village of Dubovy Ovrag have been deprived of water supply since December 27, 2021. Officials from the Svetloyarsk District have been ignoring the water supply problems for years, the head of the village states.

The Tbilisi Sakrebulo (City Council) has approved the system of subscription fares in public transport, but townspeople are outraged by the increase in travel costs.

Beslan Bigvava, the head of the Ochamchira District, has asked to forgive him for a shooting incident in a Sukhumi restaurant and pointed to the need to wait until the end of the investigative actions within this case.

In January-November 2021, all the regions of the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) saw more divorces than in the same period of 2020, according to the data released by the "Rosstat" (Russian Federal Statistics Service). Ingushetia and Chechnya were the so-called "anti-leaders" in terms of the increase in the number of divorces, where their number increased by 218% and 163%, respectively.

After the appeal of the President of Kazakhstan, where mass actions are underway, accompanied by protesters' clashes with law enforcers, it was decided to send peacemakers in order to stabilize the situation in the country, Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Prime Minister, has stated.