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A court in Cherkessk has sentenced Oleg Dyshekov, a local resident, to six years in prison on charges of assaulting a judge of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). The visually impaired Dyshekov took the judge for another person; he had no intention of assaulting him; and the severe verdict was caused by the bias attitude of the court, the defence has stated.

The boy, who complained to Ramzan Kadyrov about Dagestani doctors, is being treated at the expense of the state, the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has stated after Kadyrov's proposal to pay for the boy's treatment.

Mikhail Benyash, a lawyer, has been detained in Krasnodar for a longer period than is permitted by the law, his advocate stated in her complaint submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The Georgia's support for the UN Pact will result in an increased migration from Asia and Africa, protesters in Tbilisi have stated.

During the week of December 17-23, 2018, two persons perished in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there is no data about any wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Russian Catholics are celebrating their Christmas. Festive masses are held in all Russian Catholic churches, including those in the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD) of Russia, and in the countries of Southern Caucasus.

In the dispute over the Chechen-Ingush border, one should agree with the decision of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Russia. The decision of the Sharia Court on this issue will be as biased as the of secular one, residents of Chechnya believe.

Members of the Ingush Diaspora have held actions in Vienna, Stockholm and Paris, demanding to find and release the Ingush students detained in August in Cairo.

On the eve of the New Year holidays, law enforcers in the capital of Chechnya have switched to the round-the-clock service. Townspeople report that access to the New Year Tree, set up in central Grozny is possible only after a personal search.

The court has rejected the defence's petition to question the owners of the stores equipped with video cameras, which could record the route of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Tights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", on the day of his detention. This proves that the defence and the prosecution are in unequal conditions, Pyotr Zaikin, an advocate, has stated.

The refusal to initiate a torture case of Maxim Lapunov in Grozny is contradictory to the outcomes of the pre-investigation check. This was reported by the "Novaya Gazeta", which has linked the law enforcers' decision with the Kremlin policy.

The request to transfer a Russian soldier suspected of killing Julietta Gukasyan in Gyumri to a penitentiary institution of Armenia has been transferred to an investigator, report representatives of a killed woman's daughter.

The court dismissed the defence appeal and left Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny, in custody.

The oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party has video evidence of violations and requires the Prosecutor's Office to detain people suspected of fraud. That was announced by Levan Bezhashvili, one of the party leaders.

During the last 24 hours, the ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was violated for 28 times; the militaries' positions in the Gazakh and Tovuz Districts came under fire, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

Residents of Kumyk villages near Makhachkala have erected a monument to the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire, who 100 years ago drove troops of General Lazar Bicherakhov out of Dagestan. Locals associate General's soldiers with violence and perceive their Turk counterparts as liberators; however, historians have no common opinion on whether the actions of the Ottoman Empire in Northern Caucasus were intervention.

The persecution of journalist Khadija Ismayilova in Azerbaijan is detrimental to the freedom of expressing one's opinion in the country, Arlem Desir, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has stated.

Employees of budgetary institutions in the Grozny District of Chechnya are forced to work on cleaning the banks of the Terek River after their work hours and on weekends, local residents have complained.

The literary event based on the novel "Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov at the Buynaksk Medical College was called a "satanic holiday" by social media users.

The amendments aimed to increase the term for investigating crimes will be adopted under the accelerated procedure; this will allow to finish the inquiry into the murder of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first president of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Speaker of the Parliament, has promised today. The sons of Gamsakhurdia refused to stop their hunger strike after this statement.