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The Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has published a list of 36 military servicemen who perished during the hostilities in the conflict zone; thus, the death toll among the military personnel of the unrecognized republic has reached 1815.

The opposition's boycott of the work of the Parliament will lead to a stronger political crisis in Georgia, Nika Chitadze, a political analyst, believes. The absence of oppositional MPs in the Parliament increases the freedom of action for the "Georgian Dream", Giya Abashidze, his colleague, has objected.

In the evening on December 11, a shootout with Azerbaijani militaries occurred in the Gadrut direction; the health condition of three wounded soldiers of Nagorno-Karabakh is stable, the authorities of the unrecognized republic have informed.

The Volgograd Regional Court has supported the activist, Vladimir Telpuk, who demanded to cancel the fine of 10,000 roubles imposed on him for violating the order of holding an action.

Most of the Georgian opposition parties, which have overcome the electoral barrier at the parliamentary elections and refused to recognize the outcomes thereof, have applied to the Central Election Commissions (CEC) asking to annul their election lists.

There are electricity and water supplies in Berdzor; shops are open, while issues of further restoration of infrastructure should be resolved after the status of the city becomes clear, the Mayor said.

The customers of the murder of the politician, Boris Nemtsov, have been found, but the case should be "given another brush," Russian President, Vladimir Putin, believes.

French law enforcers have released five persons detained under the murder case of teacher Samuel Paty, without charging them.

Another Ramzan Kadyrov's daughter has received a high post. Khadizhat Kadyrova has been appointed to head the Grozny City Department of Preschool Education.

Today, two explosive devices have been activated in the village of Uchkeken, and law enforcers were injured in the second explosion, investigators report.

Chechnya with 2894 coronavirus-infected patients came out on top in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) in terms of the number of active patients. The Stavropol Territory still leads among the NCFD regions both in terms of the daily increase in infections and in the number of new deaths from COVID-19.

An attack on law enforcers in Karachay-Cherkessia was preceded by a female suicide bomber attack on a checkpoint in Chechnya in November 2018.

Rashid Maisigov, sentenced for drug possession and accused of calling for separatism, is being prosecuted for political reasons, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has claimed today. The human rights defenders demand to release the Ingush journalist.

Six persons were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in the village of Uchkeken in Karachay-Cherkessia. The attacker was killed in the explosion.

Ramzan Kadyrov has treated the new sanctions imposed by the USA and United Kingdom in connection with human rights violations in Chechnya as absurd, and assured that these restrictions would not affect the situation in Chechnya.

The trilateral agreement on the end of hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh has set up preconditions for the restoration of Armenian-Turkish diplomatic relations, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Power (electricity) outages in Stepanakert occur every day, the townspeople have complained. The power supply system in Nagorno-Karabakh works in the emergency mode, a source from a power company has explained.

Favourable terms of oil and gas supplies are the Turkey's main economic bonuses for supporting Azerbaijan in the Karabakh conflict. However, Turkey's political benefits are no less weighty than economic ones, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

British authorities have imposed sanctions on Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, two high-ranking officials of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the "Terek" special forces unit, whom London considers to be involved in the persecution of the LGBT community.

It will make sense to resume the work of schools and a kindergarten for the children of Berdzor, Agavno and Sus only after local residents' return to these dwelling settlements, the Nagorno-Karabakh's Ministry of Education has stated.