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Two couples from Chechnya have illegally received 280,000 euros of benefits, the Austrian police have stated.

The funds donated to Makhachkala by the Mayor of Moscow have been spent inefficiently, local residents, who have criticized the quality of the work done, assert.

Over 120,000 people gathered in central Grozny on the New Year's Eve, the Chechen authorities have reported. Employees of budgetary organizations had to participate in festivities under the threat of layoffs, Grozny residents have told.

On the eve of New Year, in the capital of Chechnya, law enforcers visited houses of city residents and warned them of responsibility for drinking alcoholic beverages on the New Year's Eve, residents of Grozny reported.

Internet users argue about the behaviour of four residents of the Kayakent District, accused of administrative offence after they had danced lezginka in the middle of the roadway in Derbent. The young people face administrative penalties for violating parking rules.

Modern Chechen young people perceives the Russian army not as a participant of the military campaigns in the republic, but as a chance to avoid the fate of unemployed people by gaining the right to serve at the law enforcement bodies, explain experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

After the authorities removed his tent set up near the Georgian parliament, Malkhaz Machalikashvili has informed about disappearance of 22,000 signatures gathered in support of the parliamentary investigation into the death of his son. Machalikashvili has announced a new campaign, saying that he needs some 12,000 signatures more.

Akhmed Imagozhev, who was hospitalized after the attack on the road-and-patrol service (DPS) post in Magas, whom law enforcers treat as one of the attackers, has come to senses and started talking; investigators are working with him. The resources that are tracing the activities of the "Islamic State"* have reported that the IS* had claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dozens of activists with posters in support of Robert Kocharyan gathered at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where the second president of Armenia is kept, and congratulated him and Armen Tavadyan, the owner of 5TV Channel on the New Year.

The photo depicting the alleged participants of the New Year's attack on the post near Magas of the road-and-patrol service (DPS) post with their knives at the background of the flag of the "Islamic State" (IS*, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court) is a fake, some Facebook users assert. The attackers had been recruited by law enforcers themselves, other social network commentators have suggested.

In December 1994, many Russian citizens, who could not evacuate from the city to their relatives, fell victims to the assault of Grozny, eyewitnesses of the events of 25 years ago assert.

The Dagestan journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, has treated the arguments of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) in favour of his arrest extension as an attempt to influence the investigators' position.

Two forced migrants from Abkhazia, who demand to provide them with housing, stay for the second day in the locked building of the Ministry for Refugees, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia. The protesters said they had no money to celebrate the New Year.

Law enforcers have searched the homes of the two suspects of attacking policemen in Ingushetia, as well as the Cultural Heritage Centre in Magas, where, according to law enforcers, one of the attackers had worked, sources have informed.

The interest of the antiterrorist commission of the Elbrus District in the schoolchildren, who refuse to celebrate the New Year because of their religious beliefs is inappropriate in a secular state, lawyers have noted.

The independent candidates, who have claimed violations after municipal elections in Azerbaijan, now face accusations themselves. The blogger, Mekhman Guseinov, was accused of falsifying the vote; and Rabiya Mamedova, an activist, was charged with defamation.

During the attack on policemen in Magas, Mikail Miziev was killed, whose relative committed a similar attack on policemen officers in Ingushetia in 2017, a source said. The second Magas attacker has been identified as Akhmed Imagozhev, a master of sports in arm wrestling.

The father of Temirlan Machalikashvili, who was killed during a special operation in Pankisi, said that he would again set up a tent near the Georgian parliament, where the Mayoralty has already installed attractions.

According to the calculations of the "Caucasian Knot", the attack on the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) post, located at the entrance to the city of Magas, the Ingush capital, committed on the eve of the New Year, was the first such incident since November 2017.

The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) condemned the suspension from work of Shakhla Gumbatova, a well-known Azerbaijani advocate. In its joint appeal with four international human rights organizations, the IBAHRI called on the Bar Association of Azerbaijan to restore the Shakhla Gumbatova's powers.