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Four journalists and other activists have been detained today in Baku for holding a rally in support of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov; the police stopped the action five minutes after the start thereof. Still, it was a success, as many passersby managed to pay attention to it, the participants of the event believe.

On January 2, Arman Yegoyan, the press secretary for the Prime Minister of Armenia, reported that the cost of Russian gas for Armenian consumers will not rise due to reduction of the expenses incurred by the Gazprom Armenia.

Today, in Derbent, a fire has broken out on a roof of a five-storey residential building. All tenants have been evacuated.

Positions of the Azerbaijani army have been shelled in two districts, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

A question on expulsion of former members of the Astrakhan Regional Duma from the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia) Party, involved as defendants in a case on rape and corruption of minors, will be resolved at a next meeting, reports the "Edinaya Rossiya" Party.

An electronic system of administering pension contributions has been launched on the website of the Pension Agency of Georgia. Registration therein is mandatory for all employed citizens, as well as for employers.

A three-year-old boy was taken to hospital in Derbent with a gunshot wound after he went with his parents to a New Year's fireworks, the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan has reported. Instagram users have criticized gun owners for the rash use thereof.

Eight mayors of cities and districts of Georgia, as well as MPs, ministry officials and judges have been fined by the Public Service Bureau after checking their property declarations.

Despite the inefficiency of the Geneva discussions, they should not be stopped, as there is no better format for discussing problems today, Georgian political analysts believe.

The revenge fight between Irishman athlete Conor McGregor and Dagestani fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov will take place in 2019. This was announced by UFC President Dana White on January 1.

The number of children returned from the Middle East on December 30, 2018, included a six-year-old granddaughter of Nalchik resident Madina Naloeva. The girl was taken away from Russia in 2015. According to Children's Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova, other 36 children are to be returned from Iraq in January.

Some women of Grozny treated as unnecessary a requirement for junior schoolgirls to wear headscarves for the New Year's morning festivities. Such a decision made by parents created problems for teachers with their chiefs, teachers reported.

The Azerbaijani positions in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in the border villages, have been shelled 46 times over a day, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

Two men held a resident of Novorossiysk in an apartment for several hours and beat him up, his relatives have stated. Suspects have been detained; supposedly, they are related to law enforcement structures.

The family left homeless due to a fire on New Year's night in the Trusov District of Astrakhan was provided with other housing, the authorities have stated.

The increase in the number of non-combat casualties among Armenian servicemen was a consequence of the impunity of the command and the poor training of technical and medical services of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Magomed Magomedkerimov, a native of Dagestan, has won the final of the Professional Fighters' League (PFL) in the middleweight category.

The administration of Baku SIZO-1 (pre-trial prison) did not allow the father of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov to visit his son today, as the father, Rafig Guseinov himself, told the "Caucasian Knot", expressing his concern for his son.

The murder in Nazran of Ibragim Belkharoev has nothing to do with domestic (everyday) reasons, since the deceased was close to the Chechen leadership, social network users believe.

Almost a month after the murder of Julietta Gukasyan, a resident of Gyumri, her relatives still know nothing about the motives of the crime and the investigation progress, said Asmik Gukasyan, a daughter of the murdered woman. According to her, a detained Russian soldier should be handed over to the Armenian side.