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During the week of December 14-20, 2020, three persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Local officials have met with the participants of the protest action held in central Tskhinvali by relatives and friends of Inal Djabiev, who died during interrogation at the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and urged them to leave the central square so as not to freeze. The protesters installed a photo of Djabiev and lit candles in his memory.

Six Armenian soldiers who had fought in Nagorno-Karabakh and stayed in the territories that came under Azerbaijan's control after the end of hostilities have returned home. Araik Arutyunyan, President of Nagorno-Karabakh, has made a respective statement.

The "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) has shown a report about how relatives of a resident of the village of Gordali, who died in a road accident, had pardoned the driver who killed him. Instagram users pointed to the archaic nature of the blood feud custom.

The Parliament of the Netherlands has openly demonstrated its anti-Azerbaijani and anti-Turkic position and is inciting enmity by its 11 resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

Afghan Sadygov, an Azeri journalist, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), rejects intravenous injections of nutrients; his health condition is very grave, said Zibeida Sadygova, an advocate, citing the wife of Afghan Sadygov.

The protesters tried to block the passage of the mourning march in memory of the victims of the Karabakh conflict, headed by Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, into the territory of the pantheon.

The Prosecutor's Office should bring to justice those responsible for the death of Inal Djabiev, regardless of their positions, the MPs have stated.

The question of the journalist, Madina Musaeva, about Kadyrov's role in Russia's interrelations with the Middle East, put to Vladimir Putin, was not agreed upon, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said after Putin's press conference. The wording of the question has compromised Kadyrov in Putin's eyes, who had to look for an evasive answer, Orientalists have noted.

After talking to a theologian, two young men from Chechnya repented of having turned to a sorceress in Dagestan for help. Some Instagram treat public reprimanding of offenders as unethical.

Azamat Tsugkiev, an operative agent, failed to explain the discrepancies in his testimony and in the excerpt from the hospital, where Vladimir Tskaev, a Vladikavkaz resident, was taken. During interrogation in court, Tsugkiev referred to the Russian Constitution in order not to answer the questions of the advocate of Tskaev's widow.

In its resolution, the lower house of the Belgian Parliament has called on the parties to the Karabakh conflict to negotiate a peace agreement that respects the borders of Nagorno-Karabakh and the right of its people to self-determination.

Law enforcers are forcing the convicts in the case of the attack on Nalchik to drop their claims against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), their advocate has stated. The organization "Legal Initiative", which represents the interests of victims of torture, was also attacked.

In Chechnya, investigators treat the testimonies of relatives of the missing Movsar Umarov that he had been held by law enforcers as trustworthy. The investigators' position contradicts the statements of the Russia' representative at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), rights defenders assert.

A Russian officer was killed during demining operations near Shushi. The accident in the zone of recent hostilities occurred on December 17.

The law enforcement bodies often too early declare as militants the people they killed, human rights defenders claim. The Chechen law enforcement bodies have enough technical means to avoid identification errors, like in case of Kazbek Baidulaev, notes Reserve FSB Colonel Gennady Gudkov.

Movement across the land border with Russia will resume no earlier than March 1 due to an increase in the number of coronavirus infection cases in both countries and due to the strict quarantine in Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia announces.

In Chechnya, after two December shootouts with law enforcers, the number of armed incidents in the republic has reached four since the early 2020, like throughout the year of 2019. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

In Georgia, six opposition supporters detained at a protest face heavy fines, advocate Tengiz Kakhidze reports. Courts more often fine people for participating in political actions, activists note.

The death of 23-year-old programmer Tamar Bachaliashvili was a suicide, the Georgian Prosecutor's Office (PO) has announced the results of the inquiry into the case.