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A questioning of a teenager at a police station lasted more than six hours and took place at night, while an investigator threatened the minor with creating problems for his relatives, the State Inspector General reports the details of a case on the schoolboy's suicide. The investigator is arrested.

In Grozny, the ban on shooting videos in a building of the College of Culture and Arts does not comply with the requirements of the law, and expulsion of students for re-singing a rap hit at the educational institution can be challenged in court, lawyers suggest.

The fame of film director Alexander Sokurov, who questioned the right of Ramzan Kadyrov to the title of Hero of Russia, minimizes the likelihood of pressure on him from the Chechen authorities, note experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Schools are not supplied with mother tongue textbooks, classrooms do not meet modern requirements, and many teachers are poorly prepared, emphasize participants of the conference. They have adopted an appeal to the parliament of the republic with a request to take the legislative initiative and invite the Russian State Duma to repeal the amendments to the Law "On Education in the Russian Federation".

A court in Stepanakert has postponed the consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Samvel Babayan, a former commander of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), who demands to restore his citizenship. The court session was postponed for the eighth time, since the court doesn't want to consider his lawsuit, Mr Babayan is sure.

Zamid Chalaev, the commander of the Chechen patrol-and-post service (PPS) regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov, has explained to his subordinates that all the offenders should be treated as "traitors."

Ukrainian law enforcers put a son of a former Chechen presidential candidate on the wanted list in connection with the attempt on a Deputy of the Kyiv Regional Council. Abuev presented himself as "a participant in the anti-Russian resistance in the Caucasus" and suggested a fighter of the "Azov" battalion to apologize to Kadyrov, the "Hromadske" TV Channel has found out.

The Grozny police have accepted the application submitted by the father of Mairbek Amaev about the disappearance of his son; policemen warned him that it could take a month to check the application.

The Prosecutor's Office cancelled the decision to close a case on torture by law enforcers of Yevgeny Bunin, a resident of the Tuapse District, and entrusted the case to another investigator, reported the Committee Against Torture (CaT). The human rights defenders express the hope that the new investigation will be effective.

Doubts voiced by film director Alexander Sokurov concerning whether Akhmat and Ramzan Kadyrov deserved the title of Hero of Russia provoked a harsh reaction from subordinates of the Chechen leader, and the film director entered the list of people who dared to criticize Ramzan Kadyrov directly.

Mustafa Vyshegurov, a participant of a March rally in Magas, has stopped accepting food since today in protest against the conditions of detention at the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the demand to shave his beard. The court extended his arrest until March 11.

On December 18, the presidential envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) handed over to Ramzan Kadyrov a gratitude letter from Vladimir Putin "for active participation in public and political life." The gratitude was announced back in April. The leader of Chechnya got the Russian President's encouragement amid a public discussion with film director Alexander Sokurov concerning whether Ramzan Kadyrov deserved the title of Hero of Russia.

During the investigation into a criminal case, instituted on the fact of the embezzlement of state funds on an especially large scale, an arrest was imposed on the property of Serzh Sargsyan, the third president of Armenia, and Barseg Beglaryan, the president of the "Flash" Company.

In Volgograd, members of the Communist Party announced the erection on December 21 of a monument to Joseph Stalin. Many Facebook users criticized the idea, but some of them expressed their support to the idea.

Several protest actions were held in Tbilisi after it became known about a teenager's suicide. The protesters assert that authorities should be held accountable for what has happened.

The Saint Petersburg blogger Elvin Isaev, who was deported from Ukraine to Azerbaijan, is accused of anti-state calls for "mass riots". The advocate, hired by his relatives, has stated that the investigating body is protracting with his access to the client; therefore, the advocate doubts the objectivity of the inquiry.

Magomed Basnukaev and Khalimat Tepsurkaeva, students of the College of Culture and Arts, have been expelled from the college after re-singing "Propaganda", a composition by rapper Miyagi. The college bosses have explained the expulsion by a ban on video filming in the building.

Aina Getagazova performed the song "Nokhchiy Pachchakh" ("Chechen Padishah") during her solo concert in Grozny. Ramzan Kadyrov was present in person at the concert. Prior to performing the song, Getagazova announced that she dedicated the song to Kadyrov.

During the war in Chechnya, direct communication was maintained of Boris Yeltsin and Djokhar Dudaev; and the Kremlin ensured the Ichkeria* president's freedom of travel, Ruslan Alkhanov, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said in his interview with the RBC (RosBusinessConsulting).

On December 17, Sakhab Zakriev, the former chief of the Migration Department at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, who is a brother of a husband of a Ramzan Kadyrov's sister, was approved by delegates of the Gudermes District as the head of the local administration.