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Azerbaijanis Shakhbaz Guliev and Dilgam Askerov, who had been imprisoned in Nagorno-Karabakh for six years, as well as the released prisoner of war (POW) Amin Musaev, reported about beatings and deprivation of food in captivity.

The Makhachkala Mayor has reported the participation of Muslim leaders in resolving the conflict in the dwelling settlement of Tarki. Social network users dispute on whether it is acceptable to evict the family of the suspected killer from the settlement.

The information about coercion to make donations into state funds to help families of perished soldiers has triggered Azerbaijani residents' protests.

The Armenian Foreign Minister had no right to visit Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) claims. Yerevan refused to recognize the above event as a violation of the peace agreement and voiced counter-accusations of conducting military operations in the conflict zone.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is responsible for the outcome of the autumn escalation of the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh and is unable to rectify the situation, the spokesman for the Armenian Apostolic Church has claimed while commenting on the request of Catholicos Garegin II to the Armenian Prime Minister to resign.

Russia, along with Armenia, Iran, and Turkey, will be able to use the transport corridor to connect Nakhichevan with the eastern regions of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliev has announced today.

Chechen law enforcers detained a father, a mother, and a sister of a native of Ingushetia involved in an attack on the police in Grozny, said Sarazhdin Sultygov, a member of the Ingush teip (family clan).

The deaths of the people detained after a special operation conducted in October proved that the Chechen authorities continue repressions against families of suspected members of the armed underground, Igor Kalyapin believes. Svetlana Gannushkina suggests that extrajudicial killings of militants' relatives are pushing people on the path of radicalization.

A resident of the dwelling settlement of Tarki has died in hospital after being stabbed during a people's gathering to discuss the murder of an activist on Tarki-Tau Mount, a Dagestani law enforcement source has informed.

About 260 houses and social facilities have been repaired in Nagorno-Karabakh using the construction materials brought from Russia, Russian rescuers have informed.

Azerbaijan occupies a part of the territory of Armenia from the side of Nakhichevan; therefore Yerevan can claim the return of the parts of Shurnukh and Vorotan lost during the border delimitation, Edmon Marukyan, an MP and the leader of the "Enlightened Armenia" Party, has stated.

A people's gathering demanding to evict the alleged drug dealer, due to which an activist, Vali Abduragimov, was killed earlier, has turned into a mass brawl in the dwelling settlement of Tarki that is a part of Makhachkala. Social networks have messages about casualties and wounded people; however, this information has not been officially confirmed.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has recognized the video footage of the burning of the body of an Azerbaijani soldier-prisoner of war (POW) to be authentic and opened a criminal case based on this footage. The Azerbaijani Ombudsperson has demanded from international organizations to react to this and other war crimes.

The information about the detention in Grozny of a 14-year-old orphan girl from Dagestan, who at this age was already one of the wives of an adult man, has alarmed social network users. The Children's Ombudsperson must check how the girl's rights are respected, commentators assert.

Today, an advocate of North-Ossetian blogger Malika Djikaeva, sentenced to imprisonment for drug possession, has reported that an appeal against the verdict was lodged to the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The mother of the sentenced blogger got information about the pressure on her daughter at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In the morning, protesters gathered near a church in Yerevan to prevent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan from attending the Christmas service. Nikol Pashinyan did not come to the church, and his press secretary explained the Prime Minister's absence by the epidemiological situation.

MMA fighter Khamzat Chimaev flew to Chechnya after he had cancelled a fight at the UFC tournament because of his positive COVID-19 test. However, according to posts on social networks, at the meetings with Khamzat Chimaev, Ramzan Kadyrov, other athletes, and relatives of the MMA fighter neglected the mask regime in force in the republic.

After a report about the murder of Vali Abduragimov, who tried to resist drug trafficking, some social network users have noted that law enforcers, and not activists, are to fight against drug dealers.

The Azerbaijani side does not comply with the terms of the peace agreement and sends its armed forces deep into the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, states Vitaly Balasanyan, Secretary of the Security Council of the unrecognized republic.

Five Nagorno-Karabakh militaries and two civilians are being held captive in Azerbaijan, while the unrecognized republic keeps two Azerbaijani civilians, said Ismail Akhundov, the head of the Commission on Prisoners' Affairs.